DEATH & MIRACLES

20.02.2025 – 22.03.2025

Galerie Schlassgoart, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Death & miracles is far from a departure from Hübsch's previous work, it's a closer look at the subtle echoes of process, memory, fragmentation and material transformation that have shaped his work over the last years.

Death & miracles is an invitation to trace the threads of time, memory, and process — to confront what is lost with what is made anew.

DEATH _ a looted golden calf

A series of overworked prints that came out of dealing with loss. In the spring of 2024, Julien Hübsch started scanning and printing all of the odd scraps and pieces that lived in any iteration of his studio over the last 6 years. Through this process, the studio becomes material in and of itself. Hübsch is not only quoting his own history, but is also referencing how we got here, with the world falling apart around us. Through sampling and remixing his own work, Hübsch bends the timeline of creation and preservation, questioning what is meant to remain - and what is not.

A looted golden calf is Hübsch's most vulnerable outing since his last solo show at Galerie Schlassgoart in 2018.

MIRACLES_ Tintoretto, it's for you

A series of watercolor works, fragmenting a 16^th century masterpiece. Created by one of the most avant-garde painters of all time, “the miracle of the slave (1548)” sits on the throne of genius strokes, high above its venetian peers.

What started as a studio exercise on color and composition quickly turned into an obsessive quest of image making in various forms. Jean-Paul Sartre described his approach as proto-cinematic, blending visual storytelling and psychological depth - Tintoretto operated in a league of his own.