Olivier Varenne

© Julian Charrière / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.Courtesy the artist; Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz/Zurich; Olivier Varenne, Geneva.

Olivier Varenne Art Moderne & Contemporain is pleased to bring together Julian Charrière and Jannis Kounellis in a cross-generational dialogue shaped by a shared commitment to material thinking. The exhibition follows the recent opening of Charrière's major solo exhibition Hard Core at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, which likewise explores geology, deep time and the material forces that shape our planet. Across their practices, both artists turn to elemental substances — coal, fire, metal, oil — not simply as materials, but as carriers of history, energy and symbolic…