Both motif and genre, the human figure is at the heart of Western artistic tradition, especially through portraits and nudes. The avant-gardes of the 20th century are pushing the traditional beauty cannons, they are paving the way for innovative plastic experiences that are still in constant renewal today.

Even if abstraction threatens the human representation of disappearance, it always ends up asserting itself in an increasingly daring way.

This is what the Aoun and Vestri Gallery wants to show with its exhibition «Portraits and figures», confronting two totally divergent aesthetic and conceptual proposals, in two separate rooms of its contemporary spaces.