Explicite lyrique
Ethan Assouline, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Georges Juliette Ayrault & Louis Chaumier, Anne-Lise Coste, Pierre Creton, Brice Dellsperger, Lou Fauroux, Romain Grateau, Dorothy Iannone, Monica Majoli, Gyan Panchal, Bruno Pelassy, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Sarah Tritz
09.01.2025 - 01.03.2025, opening 09.01.2025

















réalité, 2025
Wood, screws, paper, plastic, acrylic paint, aluminum, cardboard
150,5 x 7,5 x 8 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

BBR (Français Françaises), 2023
felt pens and Ecoline ink on canson paper
21 x 29,7 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Une collection, 1988
scotch tape on paper, pubic hair
22,8 x 15 cm
unique
crédits photos : Salle Principale
courtesy Salle Principale, Paris

Untitled, 1992
Charcoal on graph paper, wood and glass frame
56 x 43 cm
77,3 x 65,2 cm
unique

Qui aurait cru qu'il serait aussi simple d'entrer au paradis? (Nâsour et Sénjâl) , 2024
Terra cotta
26 x 10 x 5 cm and 29 x 6 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

réalité(début de l'année) , 2025
Wood, screws, paper, plastic, acrylic paint, clock, photography
129 x 7,5 x 8 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

réalité(tous les jours), 2025
Wood, screws, paper, plastic, acrylic paint
130 x 7,5 x 8 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Qui aurait cru qu'il serait aussi simple d'entrer au paradis? (Davâlzoush) , 2024
Terre cotta
30 x 28 x 6 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Qui aurait cru qu'il serait aussi simple d'entrer au paradis? (Siâzak) , 2024
Terre cotta
24 x 8 x 3 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Qui aurait cru qu'il serait aussi simple d'entrer au paradis? (Âzpâ), 2024
Terra cotta
18 x 17 x 3 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Sans titre, 2000
White kid glove, synthetic stone
23,5 x 7 cm
unique

Sans titre, 1998
Chain mail glove, porcelain metallic, silver, steel, cotton, metal
22,5 x 9 x 5,5 cm
unique

Night in white satin, 2022
Grundig TK 2200 tape recorder, chrome paint, weathered steel, electric extension cord. Voice, Leslie 760 cab, synthesizer, magnetic tape, adhesive tap
35 × 25 × 30 cm
unique
Photo : Jonathan Vidal

Untitled Flower Arrangement, 1962
Pastel on paper (from a notebook of the artist's drawings)
35,7 x 24,6 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Untitled Flower Arrangement, 1962
Pastel on paper (from a notebook of the artist's drawings)
35,7 x 24,6 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Untitled (Japan Portrait), 1962
Ink on paper (from a notebook of the artist's drawings)
35,7 x 24,6 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Untitled (Japan Portrait), 1962
Ink on paper (from a notebook of the artist's drawings)
35,7 x 24,6 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Untitled (Japan Portrait), 1962
Ink on paper (from a notebook of the artist's drawings)
35,7 x 24,6 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Microphone piece, 2022
8 microphones with stands, chains
variable dimensions
unique
Exhibition view 'Portrait of a Movement', 2022. CA2M, Madrid. Photo: Jorge Anguita Mirón
Marcelle Alix, Paris

La semeuse, 2022
Glove for hydrocarbons, castration ring
33 x 15 x 3 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien

Sirènes (d), 2012
acetone on magazine
73 x 42 cm
80 x 47,5 x 2,6 cm
unique

SEX, 2024
Airbrush on paper
65 x 50 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

That's why i need you to hear, 2024
PVC, résine, métal, peinture aérosol
90 x 50 x 44 cm
unique

Sans titre, (poteaux verrins et lampes) , 2024
Steel, epoxy paint, brass, stainless steel, aluminum, PMMA, used roll-on deodorant balls, knitting needles, electrical hardware
Variable dimensions
unique
Photo : Nicolas Lafon

Apple Lover, 2024
Edible cardboard, featherboard, inkjet printing, permanent markers, colored pencils
37 x 45 x 15 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Le théâtre vide (alias Teatrino), 2017
Plaster
36,5 x 42 x 32 cm
unique

Teatrino (alias Théâtre Fondation), 2020
Cardboard, fabric, tempera paint, salt dough
50 x 43 x 50 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

JUST GIVE UP AND DIE, 2012
Adhesive and vinyl letters on cotton canvas
41x31,5 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

La gifle, 2015
Airbrush, spray and gesso on cotton canvas
30 x 24 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicit lyrical', 2025. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Sirènes (a), 2012
acetone on magazine
73 x 42 cm
80 x 47,5 x 2,6 cm
ed 1
"I have lived within a lyrical poem, like anyone possessed."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Skin hunger. Sometimes it seemed that my skin ached like an empty belly. The fine hairs below my navel seemed to reach up, wanting to touch something. My mouth would open when I slept and my tongue would push at the air, reaching, reaching. I would wake from dreams of rising like yeast into an embrace that welcomed and satisfied that hunger, an embrace I wanted desperately."
Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature (1994)
The first exhibition at the gallery, "Moon Star Love" (14.11.2009–23.01.2010), outlined less of a program than an atmosphere and a way of working together—confronting our subjectivities and harmonizing like two instruments that would now play together. The exhibition “explicite lyrique [explicit lyrical]” marks 15 years of Marcelle Alix by celebrating the inclusion of a third subjectivity: Florence Bonnefous and the program of Air de Paris. Thus, we continue to imagine the gallery as a space for sharing and discussing, and the exhibition as an expression of friendship.