EXHIBITIONS julY 12 - september 5
EVENTS 2008
RETROSPECTIVES
Maison de la Truffe et du Vin - Ménerbes |
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Éric BERIDON Guest of Honour This work is not in the linage of transformation painting. I didn’t want to subjugate the paintings or the drawings with a mixture of colours or shapes. I find the processes too demonstrative, too much of a virtuosity technique. Also I don’t want to be subjugated with work too conceptual or emergence, the idea take precedence over the environment. Too pretentious in regards to nature. What is most important for me is to keep my work in three dimensions-sculpture, this way nature is left to its natural creative powers, keeping my intervention to the strict minimum. At the same time reuniting body and soul, nature and civilization, no longer opposing them. |
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| Fire like rust is a natural destructive process. This is paradoxal to life and death, obscurity and light, black and colour. I use its impression associated with my intervention in shape of pigments. This represent life that vibes the blackness, synonymous of a material death. Finally, the canvas presented vertical modifies the natural horizontal position of fire. Its perception is different, we feel as if we are plunged into the “matter” like a footprint of ourselves. Éric Béridon |
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Alain BOURABAH For me painting is a sacred expression of our own intimacy. Art is humanity “in its pure form” touching the essential, touching our senses… How does one explain, when in front of a painting, a rear and unique surprise is imposed, consisting of “listening” to a musical note which jumps out at us from the canvas, without deciding penetrates into our innermost silence? An act of love which allows for a meeting, sometimes painful, with what is perhaps the deepest sentiment we have towards the other… |
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Nathalie D'HÉNAUT I’m interested in the diversity and the mystery of faces. By drawing them it enables me to better understand and know them. Without articulate thoughts, I try not to take my paint brush off the canvas allowing for a unique stroke… Giving without unveiling everything. Imaging what isn’t shown, this is the sense of my artistic approach towards painting. Nathalie D'Hénaut |
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EBAN The paintings of Elan are a meeting of two worlds. Ancient Asia and Old Europe. Somewhere between a plant like and a mineral world which represents landmarks in his pictorial research of watercolours… Each painting is transformed into a quest of new expressions. Eban |
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Marie EMERY Quite often we like to forget our lost, images, traces of the past stored away in the back of our memory, paper scribbled on, shredded and thrown away, just lying around. I glean the paper in the waste basket at the back of the workshop… Neglected fragment crushed, threaten to be thrown out, each bearing anonymous histories. They become material to flatten, washed, whiten, and ironed, objects of a slow metamorphosis which helps us to see the essential... maybe... Marie Emery |
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Markus NINE, sculpture Markus NINE has chosen to express himself through depiction of the human body. Trained in Art History at the “Ecole du Louvre*”, he feeds himself from academicism after a spell at the “Ecole des Arts Appliqués de la Ville de Paris**” by orientating himself to rough and sensual sculpture. With the human body as the guiding principle of his work, Markus NINE prefers –after clay- to work in basic materials such as wire netting and resin with natural pigments. From these quasi-industrial materials, the challenge is how best to portray movement and gesture with expressiveness. The sculptor models the physical form both to depict certain emotions and also to transcend the soul of these stretched and curled up bodies. A man with the head of a gazelle, a man who cries out, a hieratic African queen or even a tattooed torso; all are linked by a visible strength as they seek to escape their destiny. Markus NINE does not concern himself with minimalism or negativism; he expresses a strong, direct art. What is essential is said. Beyond intellectualism the artist has found the way of simplicity, which comes from heart. The physical material is imbued with spirit and soul. J.S.
Markus Nine*the Louvres College **the city of Paris College of Applied Arts |
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Katy SERRA We are attracted to her painting like “a break in”. Bothering the unchangeable stilted with time. Not even breathing is able to disrupt the tranquillity of this environment. Not spoiling what time has taken to shape. All is calm… The simplicity become magic each painting is a part of time, immobilized. |
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Chapelle Saint-Blaise - Ménerbes |
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Myriam di LORENZO Oil painting, for the richness of this material, its depth, its transparency and of course for its unknown qualities which suddenly appears. My work focus on opposition and the research of a balance between the forces that we are made up of. It starts with the choice of the format, when I stretch the canvas on the frame, everything is possible… I like this moment when I start something, an idea, an event or even an emotion can be the turning point, but quickly I let the material and the colours express it. Remaining open minded to whatever shows up on the canvas, “listening” to what is happening, letting my hands transform the idea… Finding a point of harmony and a sense to what at times overtakes us, transmitting in my turn an emotion… Myriam di Lorenzo |
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