Painting and tennis are the two great passions of the French artist Laurent Ajina. In his new series, he combined both and will show the works as part of an extraordinary exhibition project in autumn at Kunsthandel Giese und Schweiger.

The idea for the exhibition came up together with his tennis partner for many years, Alexander Giese, who is just as passionate and enthusiastic as Ajina about this ball game.
Laurent Ajina has played tennis since childhood and, according to the artist: "It may sound surprising, but tennis and my art have some kind of connection. I play as I draw, and vice versa, always with and against me. Tennis and my artistic work are precision and distance. As a tennis player, you relate to geometry, space and rhythm." Born in Paris in 1970 and now living in Vienna, Paris and Los Angeles, Laurent Ajina's paintings develop as a process on the canvas. The lines are not fixed from the beginning but emerge while working.