Galerie Sept Knokke
Galerie Sept is proud to present Rêverie d’Été by Timm Blandin, a solo exhibition opening July 31st, 2025, at our Knokke gallery. Subtitled Landscapes remembered, not observed, this new body of work invites viewers into a quiet, luminous world where memory, light, and place dissolve into pure atmosphere.
Blandin, born in 1987 and based in Haute-Savoie, has established himself as a distinctive voice in contemporary figurative painting. With a background in graphic design, his work blends the structure of the digital image with the sensuality of paint. Through soft abstraction, photographic echoes, and a masterful handling of rhythm and palette, he creates paintings that are less about recording reality than about feeling it — filtered, suspended, refracted through memory.
There is a certain weightlessness in this new series—a brightness that hums rather than blinds. In L’Oeil du Panda cliffs plunge into shadow as the sea calmly absorbs the sky. The colors—unexpected, radiant—tilt the scene into dream, and the coastline becomes not a place, but a memory. The title itself suggests a gaze both soft and surreal: present, observing, touched by time.
Throughout the show, Blandin captures the Breton summer not as a season, but as a sensation—humid light, the echo of footsteps on stone, a garden’s silence after rainfall. These are not literal landscapes; they are recollections made visible.
In Hélène en Bretagne a woman stands turned away, quietly tending to vivid flowers as the soft geometry of a house nestles in the background. The scene feels familiar but remains incomplete—as though seen through a fogged window or a half-remembered dream. Her gesture, simple and unhurried, anchors the viewer in a moment of private stillness.
By contrast, Un Jardin à Sainte-Anne immerses us in floral abundance. Here, the garden becomes a world in itself—lush, layered, untamed. Color surges forward in clusters of blooming pinks, whites, and oranges, yet beneath the wildness lies an underlying calm. It is a scene that sings quietly, inviting the eye to wander, and the mind to linger.
Already collected across Europe and Asia, Timm Blandin enters a new chapter in 2025. With Rêverie d’Été, he affirms his place among the most exciting artistic revelations of Galerie Sept this year. The exhibition reveals an artist who continues to evolve—toward ever greater refinement, fluidity, and depth.
