With Beyond Chaos / From Chaos to Freedom, François Reboul, curated by Vittoria Brachi, presents a two-part exhibition project unfolding between May and November 2026, shaping a processual journey across painting, space, and time. The first chapter, Beyond Chaos, runs from 1 May to 15 August, followed by From Chaos to Freedom from 28 August to 22 November, establishing a continuous conceptual and visual progression between the two phases.

The exhibition takes place across two venues in Venice: Spazio SV (former scoletta of San Zaccaria) and the Atelier François Reboul in Cannaregio, forming a distributed exhibition format. This dual setting reinforces the structure of the project, which does not simply present artworks but constructs an evolving experience, guiding the viewer through a perceptual and formal transformation. At the core of Reboul’s practice is a personal re-reading of Abstract Expressionism, developed through a deeply process-driven approach to painting. The canvases, marked by dense and layered surfaces, reveal the gesture and temporality of the act itself, turning each work into a field of tension between construction and dissolution, control and release.  In the first chapter, Beyond Chaos, this tension appears in dense and unstable forms, where paint accumulates and breaks apart, giving rise to images suspended between abstraction and figuration. With From Chaos to Freedom, the second chapter, the language gradually opens up: the gesture becomes freer, the pictorial space expands, and color gains autonomy, while maintaining the ambiguity that runs throughout the artist’s work.  The approximately forty paintings on view do not follow a linear narrative but unfold as a series of visual situations. Figures emerge and dissolve, dark lines traverse the surfaces suggesting depth and boundaries, while color activates shifting perceptual dynamics.

Through its division into two chapters and two locations, Beyond Chaos / From Chaos to Freedom presents painting as an open process, where chaos and freedom are not opposites, but complementary phases of the same creative experience.