This project originates in Adrien Fregosi’s deep connection to the Grenoble area. Born in Échirolles, the artist grew up in Meylan and began his artistic practice in Grenoble in the early 2000s, in close contact with the alternative cultural scene of the time. During these formative years, he notably founded the fanzine publishing house Cotoreich, as well as a gallery, Going Blind, which hosted and presented numerous artists. These years in Grenoble left a lasting formal and conceptual mark on his work, before he moved to Sète, where he lived for the last ten years of his life. There, he developed a prolific and highly poetic body of work, both fragile and powerful, gentle and grave. Adrien Fregosi’s works originate in his drawing practice and are nourished by countercultural forms ranging from graffiti to fanzine-making. He carried out original artistic experiments and developed distinctive, engaging narrative motifs through a unique pictorial practice. This body of work extends into sculpture, photography, and publishing, some of which are presented here for the first time.

Within the gallery spaces of the Magasin, the exhibition is conceived as an overall installation—anti-hierarchical, encouraging a mode of exploration that is more instinctive and sensory than historical or didactic.

The exhibition route is imagined as a single day—24 hours to be experienced as a sequence of moments structuring a life. Each room is conceived in relation to a specific time of day and its associated characteristics: evening, night, morning, afternoon, end of the day…

An original scenography has been designed with the duo Mr & Mr (Pierre Talagrand and Alexis Lautier) and lighting designer Serge Damon, in order to reflect this curatorial approach. Finally, a cultural program will be developed by and with Naïm Aït-Sidhoum, along with numerous cultural actors from Grenoble and beyond. In this context, several artists and/or friends will be presented alongside Adrien Fregosi in the exhibition, thus tracing both an artistic and an intimate genealogy of his work.

Among the invited participants: Jean-Michel Alberola, Marion Balac, Laurent Faulon, Damien Fragnon, Alma Fregosi-Lang, Sophie Guerrive, Roméo Julien, Estrid Lutz, Anita Molinero, Noé Nadaud, Delphine Reist, Saeio, Martí Sawe, among others.