Miniatures Laurie AGUSTI, Sergio AQUINDO, François AVRIL, Gloria AVRIL, François AYROLES, Simone F. BAUMANN, Stéphane BLANQUET, Brian BLOMERTH, Lisa BLUMEN, Isabelle BOINOT, Claire BRAUD, Lucas BURTIN, Guillaume CHAUCHAT, Florent CHAVOUET, Louise COLLET, Nicolas de CRÉCY, Sophie DARCQ, Alma DE BEIR, Hector DE LA VALLÉE, Jérôme DUBOIS, Louise DUNETON, Cornelia EICHHORN, Jochen GERNER, Sophie GUERRIVE, Georg HALLENSLEBEN, Milan JESPERS, Camille JOURDY, KILLOFFER, Serge KLIAVING, Matthias LEHMANN, LOUSTAL, Camille LOUZON, Julien MAGNANI, Jérôme MAILLET, Stéphane MANEL, MAPE813., Donatien MARY, Margaux MEISSONNIER, Jean-Christophe MENU, Amandine MEYER, Fanny MICHAËLIS, Hugues MICOL, Pierre MONESTIER, Jérôme MULOT, NYLSO, François OLISLAEGER, Saehan PARC, Jeremy PERRODEAU, Jean-Baptiste PETIT, Aude PICAULT, Frédéric POINCELET, David PRUDHOMME, Maëlle REAT, Anne SIMON, SINGEON, THE MINIMALIST WAVE, Marc TORICÈS, Anne TOUQUET, Stéphane TRAPIER, Marianne TRICOT, Eric VEILLÉ, Clément VUILLIER, Aurélie WILLIAM LEVAUX
Presentation
In our visual landscape, the relentless flow of images seems to demand ever more spectacle, ever more monumentality, in order to capture attention. For its second group exhibition, the Huberty & Breyne Gallery, Paris | Chapon - 21, has chosen to take the opposite approach. Miniatures is an exhibition that invites visitors to slow down, to pause in front of each small drawing and apprehend it through the closeness of a careful gaze. Sixty-three artists agreed to take on the challenge of creating within the confined space of the page, unfolding their infinite worlds on a defined surface. From December 19 to January 17, 2026, the gallery becomes a small theatre for an unprecedented narrative, in which hundreds of heterogeneous images by artists from the worlds of comics, illustration, drawing, painting, or papercutting come together.
Invited to take part in this collective "writing", the artists - more accustomed to conventional formats - face only one constraint: size, either 6 × 9 cm or 12 × 9 cm. Within this tight frame, each artist freely invests the limited surface. Techniques and subjects unfold in a wide range of forms, oscillating from figuration to abstraction, from black and white to color, from line to colored masses. On the gallery walls, groupings emerge through confrontations or affinities, creating dialogues between the works of both emerging and established artists. The images do not scroll by as they do on our screens; they coexist for the duration of the exhibition, revealing the richness and diversity of contemporary drawing - a drawing that thinks, that tells stories, whose narrative possibilities invite us to broaden our gaze. Miniatures, like a constellation of images meant to be read as much as contemplated, embodies the desire to compose a polyphony around drawing in all its forms, representing the graphic arts and their many branching paths while maintaining a strong and coherent line.
If each artist, with their own singularity, takes on the challenge of a format requiring meticulousness and precision, the viewer, meanwhile, is invited to come closer, to scrutinize, to enter into a more intimate relationship with the surface of the paper. Coming close enough to touch these works with their eyes - works that condense emotions and atmospheres into a reduced space - requires extreme attentiveness, both from the one who creates and the one who looks. In this intimate face-to-face, the contemplation of a drawing, as an act of resistance to the ephemeral, invites us to peer through the smallest opening into the grandeur of drawing as it reveals itself. For "the minuscule, a narrow gateway if ever there was one, opens up a world" (Gaston Bachelard).
Exhibited artists: Laurie AGUSTI, Sergio AQUINDO, François AVRIL, Gloria AVRIL, François AYROLES, Simone F. BAUMANN, Stéphane BLANQUET, Brian BLOMERTH, Lisa BLUMEN, Isabelle BOINOT, Claire BRAUD, Lucas BURTIN, Guillaume CHAUCHAT, Florent CHAVOUET, Louise COLLET, Nicolas de CRÉCY, Sophie DARCQ, Alma DE BEIR, Jérôme DUBOIS, Louise DUNETON, Cornelia EICHHORN, Jochen GERNER, Sophie GUERRIVE, Georg HALLENSLEBEN, Milan JESPERS, Camille JOURDY, KILLOFFER, Serge KLIAVING, Matthias LEHMANN, LOUSTAL, Camille LOUZON, Julien MAGNANI, Jérôme MAILLET, Stéphane MANEL, MAPE813., Donatien MARY, Margaux MEISSONNIER, Jean-Christophe MENU, Amandine MEYER, Fanny MICHAËLIS, Hugues MICOL, Pierre MONESTIER, Jérôme MULOT, NYLSO, François OLISLAEGER, Saehan PARC, Jeremy PERRODEAU, Jean-Baptiste PETIT, Aude PICAULT, Frédéric POINCELET, David PRUDHOMME, Maëlle REAT, Anne SIMON, SINGEON, THE MINIMALIST WAVE, Marc TORICÈS, Anne TOUQUET, Stéphane TRAPIER, Marianne TRICOT, Hector de la VALLÉE, Eric VEILLÉ, Clément VUILLIER, Aurélie WILLIAM LEVAUX
PRIVATE VIEW
Thursday, December 18, 2025
from 6 p.m.
in the presence of many artists
EXHIBITION
From Friday, December 19, 2025
to Saturday, January 17, 2026
PARIS | Chapon ? 21
21 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
Wednesday > Friday 1:30 p.m. ? 7 p.m.
Saturday 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.
1 - Jérôme MAILLET - Fracas XVI - 2025 - Ink and watercolor on paper - 12 x 8,9 cm - Signed on the back
2 - François OLISLAEGER - Danse elfique en Islande - 2025 - Indian ink and watercolor on paper - 9 x 12 cm - Signed and dated on the back
3 - Sophie DARCQ - Sans titre - 2025 - Indian ink on paper - 9 x 12 cm - Signed and dated on the back
4 - Amandine MEYER - Sans titre - 2025 - Ink and watercolor on paper - 9 x 14,3 cm - Signé et daté au dos
5 - Georg HALLENSLEBEN - Marine, brume du matin - 2025 - Ink and watercolor on paper - 9 x 12 cm - Signed and dated on the back