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Delphine Lahens et Jean-Marie Salanié,
Paintings and drawings
From October 10 to November 8, 2025
Opening reception on Friday, October 10, at 5:30 p.m.
The Labégorre Foundation Gallery is hosting, for the second time, two artists who have been based in Saubion for many years. Delphine Lahens will present recent drawings – works that appear delicate, almost fragile, yet full of life and playfulness. As for Jean-Marie Salanié, he continues along his path, following in the footsteps of his “masters”: Bacon, Velázquez, Rembrandt.
Photos by Claude Goga for the Labegorre collection
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From November 9 to December 9, 2025.
« Dans un monde de mystères » par Serge Labegorre et Frédérico Alagna
Paintings
From December 11 to January 15, 2025.
Opening on Thursday, December 11 at 5:30 p.m.
Frédérico Alagna, a multifaceted artist and an insatiable man—at once painter, sculptor, and also a musician of great talent, like the entire Alagna family—returns to Seignosse after a first experience alongside Delphine Lahens and Jean-Marie Salanié, for a one-on-one encounter with Serge. We will be able to admire his work on faces, sculpted in different materials, filled with gravity, wavering between pain and prayer. A descent into the self, or a supplication.
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“Adoptive son of Van Gogh, younger brother of Georges Rouault, Chaïm Soutine has at least three children: Gen Paul, the street kid of Montmartre and a great war invalid; Francis Bacon, the tragic homosexual drawn to cruelty; and, without doubt, the last true French expressionist, Serge Labégorre, whose work, steeped in black and cardinal red, is wrought of soul and flesh.”.
Jacques Lambert, journalist and art historian. Excerpt from "Soutine intime", Editions Fauvres, 2023.
« Elans », Jacques Lasserre
Paintings and sculptures
It is a pleasure to welcome for the first time Jacques Lasserre, a native sculptor from the Landes, deeply rooted in his homeland, often exhibited and celebrated there, and recognized far beyond for the quality and the almost musical rhythm of his forms. A journey through his work, from the Roman Legionnaire of the Dax Fountain, to fiery nudes, and on to solemn totems and sober yet powerful animals.
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“The painter of the human soul”
“His subject, from the very first day, has been man, and there is no need to be distracted by his era in order to address it. What matters to him is sensitivity to the human substance. He needs to preserve its traces.” When you light a glance, all of humanity looks at you. ». »
Christian Seguin. Grand reporter, Sud Ouest Dimanche – 2014
« Deux frères »
tribute to Bernard Ponty, painter and writer, cousin of Serge
Classical concert with violinist Pascale Meley, from the Paris National Orchestra, and pianist Jeanne-Marie Ponty Fourel, Professor at the Montreuil Conservatory, followed by the exhibition opening on May 16 – further details to come
Bernard Ponty was Serge’s first cousin. A writer, painter, and philosopher, he passed away in 2020. The bond between Serge and Bernard was so clear, so evident, so timeless from their youth onward, that it is a joy to finally open the walls of the Fonds’ great hall to this brother in spirit. Companion in every challenge, every project, every journey—especially those summer holidays that brought the whole family to Capbreton, Hossegor, or Seignosse in the 1960s and 70s.
To open the exhibition, a classical concert will be held at Saint André Church (details to be confirmed), featuring Bernard’s nieces—the children of Serge’s cousins—including Pascale Meley, violinist with the Paris National Orchestra and founder of the Quatuor Verlaine.
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« I am not a friendly painter " admits Serge Labégorre, who for forty years has been painting portraits of seriously ordinary individuals. " Banality has its greatness ", it is also at the heart of our daily or historical dramas, repeated in each new generation, that the painter draws the permanence of the gazes and the disintegration of the bodies that he gives form."
Gérard Gamand, extract from “Serge Labégorre, heavy looks”, Azart Special Edition No. 3, 2005
« La grandeur du modeste » Serge Labégorre passe l’été avec Jean-Pierre Ruel
Paintings
Jean-Pierre Ruel paints the modest habitats of the countryside, the mountains and the beings who stay there or brush against them, with infinite love, an extreme quality that is at the same time trembling and alive. A great painter, with solid, warm, reassuring work, like a good corduroy garment, a fine wine... A solid and sumptuous work, grand, at the service of all that is modest. And which has its grandeur.
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"Serge Labégorre takes a lucid look at his contemporaries, whose painting serves as an uncompromising mirror of a paroxysmal vision. This unique approach has an epic dimension."
Lydia Harambourg. Critique d’art. La Gazette Drouot, septembre 2015.
« Témoins et sentinelles »,David Daoud et Valérie Fanchini
Paintings and sculptures
French-Lebanese painter David Daoud continues to question our lives, the world he inhabits. In the latest monograph dedicated to him, Ibrahim Maalouf writes: " He doesn't just paint faces, bodies and landscapes; he sculpts emotions, identities, collective stories that resonate with our own humanity.… ».
As for Valérie Fanchini, sculptor, she declares: " Working with various materials such as earth, plaster, bronze or steel first, glass has grabbed me since 2004 and I have not let go. » …/… « Glass is captivating for a sculptor because it allows you to work on the interior of the volume by making light play an even more fundamental role. It is an ambivalent medium, a liquid/solid, a present/absent, a fragile/solid, an interior/exterior. » A first in Seignosse for these two young and beautiful artists, eagerly awaited.
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The work of Serge Labégorre masterfully contradicts the thesis of an agony in the history of Western art. Indeed, the radical upheaval of Picasso, Céline or Joyce, the telluric brutality of Pollock, the near muteness of Beckett or Rothko, the impulsive universe of Simenon, seem to prefigure the advent of an irremediable nihilism. But there is Labégorre, a painter inspired by souls in pain, but not dead, that the usual qualifier - expressionist - defines very imperfectly."
Denis Tillinac, April 2014. Extract from “Now, there is Labégorre”, preface to the book “Origines”, published for the inauguration of the Labégorre Fund in Seignosse, in November 2014.
Lumières, Serge Labégorre avec Lucie Geffrey
Paintings
Lucie Geffrey, a young painter from Aquitaine, is almost a regular at the Fonds Labégorre. Her depiction of great truth, of great affection for what lives, fights, moves, and dies, is always a pleasure for the eyes as well as for the heart. Exhibition pending validation at the time of writing
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