Yvon Lambert and Ève Lambert are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition
Philippe Weisbecker
Architectures
On Thursday, January 15 from 6 PM to 8 PM
Exhibition on view until March 1, 2026
For Architectures, Philippe Weisbecker continues the exploration he has been conducting for several decades on form, structure and object. Known for his rigorously constructed works, the artist presents a series combining drawings and architectural studies in which his graphic language is fully deployed.
The origin of this new exhibition is echoed in the objects he has long represented: “Exteriors are nothing more than the expression of the interior; impenetrable, they arouse a certain curiosity.”
For a long time, the artist sought to faithfully reproduce the buildings that inspired him. Then, gradually, his gaze shifted: “I quickly realised that what really interested me was the skeleton of buildings, their structures, the vectors of force that organise them.”
This transition—from the descriptive to the essential—is one of Weisbecker’s hallmarks. In Architectures, each work condenses complex structures into sober, distilled, almost elemental forms, while preserving a powerful sculptural presence.
Several directions emerged as the work progressed: a large drawing of the Grand Palais, large-format studies, and the integration of small «physical» buildings that interact with the recent series of black drawings. From this creative effervescence, the exhibition took shape with clarity: new works and earlier pieces come together to form an architectural landscape of great clarity.
Architectures is not just a series of drawings: it is a reflection on construction, the memory of forms and the beauty of the useful – a celebration of what remains when we strip things of all that is superfluous.
About Philippe Weisbecker
Born in Dakar in 1942, Philippe Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris before moving to New York in 1968, where he initially worked in an architectural firm. At the age of 30, he turned to illustration and enjoyed immediate success: The New York Times, Time Magazine and The New Yorker quickly adopted his unique style.
In the late 1990s, he gradually gave up commissions to devote himself entirely to his personal work. Exhibited internationally, he returned to France in 2006 and now divides his time between Paris and Normandy, pursuing an increasingly refined, inventive and essential body of work.
His works strike an immediate chord – in the United States, Japan, where he is widely published, and far beyond. This vitality testifies to the quiet strength of his gesture and the ability of his pieces to continue their trajectory beyond the studio.
Weisbecker humorously describes how his projects evolve over days, months and years: a constant desire to ‘do everything and show everything’, a continuous creative movement where each idea leads to another. Far from constraining his work, time opens up new avenues and fuels a momentum that is constantly renewing itself.