A few years after the inauguration of Templon Bruxelles, Daniel Templon established a second gallery in Paris, on rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare, just a few steps further from Templon gallery on Rue Beaubourg.

The artist examines the Second World War and the way it is recounted via the theme of official awards, medals and recognition. He explores maternal love and its sacrificial dimension through the figure of a missing mother. With an apparently simple colour range – icy blues and vivid reds on black and white backgrounds – the artist creates a harmonious compendium of portraits, fantastical creatures, abstract motifs, symbols and lush vegetation. Each piece plays out like a dream or a cartoon. His favourite subjects are visible: the problem of power, interdependence, tolerance and the need for dialogue.

David LaChapelle returns to Paris with a large-scale exhibition designed for Galerie Templon’s Rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare space. Conceived as a journey through LaChapelle’s imagination, Letter to the World brings together iconic pieces and the photographer’s dramatic new work.
The layout of the two levels of the gallery space is designed to create a dialogue between two contrasting worlds: from destruction to utopia, excess to redemption.
On the lower level, a dynamic selection of iconic works illustrate LaChapelle’s vision of human civilisation on the verge of collapse, faltering under the pressure of environmental dangers and the excesses of consumer culture and celebrity idolization.