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At first glance returns this summer and gives free rein to the galleries of Saint-Germain des Prés to exhibit in their windows the works of young artists who have graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris.

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This 5th edition will take place from July 3 to August 31, 2025 at the initiative of Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Fine Arts Thursday Association and the Professional Committee of Art Galleries (CPGA). The aim of the event is to create a first link between young artists from Beaux-Arts de Paris and art galleries that live together in the same district. Free and visible to all, day and night, At first glance offers a journey of discovery and a look at young creation: photography, drawing, painting, sculpture...

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We present a work byIrene Eon, graduated in 2024 from the Beaux Arts de Paris where she studied in Tim Eitel's studio. She is interested in the effects that her paintings produce on the viewer's perception. In his paintings, colors and light take precedence over a clear narration. From the gap between figuration and abstraction arise troubled visions, sensations of deja vu: gaze and memory go astray, in favor of a contemplative state.

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“In her works, on wood as on canvas, she works by successive glazes, scrubbing and erasing a lot to reach a final form. But his very dry paint means that each repentance persists under the layers of material, and reveals the thought process at the origin of his images, as if it were covering a first moving idea with light layers. Its colors, which are rarely clear, prefer the complexity of fluid shades” (Camille Pauhlan)

OPENING: July 3, 6 p.m.

Journey with artists then presentation of the JDBA-CPGA Beaux-Arts Prize

The idea is therefore to follow a path -according to the numbers on the attached map-, by stopping in front of each of the windows with the group of guests, the jury of the prize, for a brief presentation by the artists and then finishing at the Beaux-Arts for the award ceremony.

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Thursday Fine Arts Prize
On July 3, during the opening organized in the presence of the artists, the Jeudi des Beaux-Arts Prize will be awarded, rewarding an artist from the exhibition and awarded by a jury composed of: Jean-Michel Alberola, painter and former professor at Beaux-Arts in Paris, Laurent Boudier, art critic and journalist at Télérama, Laurent Boudier, art critic and journalist at Télérama, Emmanuelle Henry, President of the Friends of the Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac

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