VERNISSAGE - Thursday 25 January 18h > 21h
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EXHIBITION FROM 26 JANUARY TO 25 FEBRUARY 2024
Wednesday to Saturday 14.30 - 19h and by appointment
PALPITEMENTS
MIREILLE LIÉNARD
and her guests
Giorgos Papasotiriou and Serge Goldwicht
"Palpitations"
Mireille Liénard, Serge Goldwicht, Giorgos Papasotirio
Invisible and central, the artist looks, admires and wonders. In the course of her admiration, she looks at the world around her, and at the end of her questioning, she creates.
The external model becomes an internal model. She makes it her own, imagining a story, an extension of herself that she will tell us and that we, in turn, will be able to make our own.
Her creation is likely to give us deep emotions, to bring us images that the real world would not have provided, because art brings it to life through the imagination, modifying its characteristics.
The universality of art means that we can suddenly find ourselves, recognise ourselves in the sensibility of an artist and be surprised and touched by the multiple correspondences of thought. The notion of resonance, so dear to Hartmut Rosa, is often the key to these relationships.
The two artists I have brought together for this exhibition follow a process of emotional exchange that brings into play their particular view of nature.
Far from being faithful to their representations, they inhabit their creations, immersing themselves almost erotically in every stratum, every line, every crack, transposing their emotions into their works. Palpitations of the world, transmissions of life made visible.
According to Hegel: "Art is a means by which man tears himself away from nature and transcends it".
Serge Goldwicht plunges his gaze into the earth, subtracting its roots, pushing their form into contact with the formless, brushing his line over their organic fibre, and making the fragile rhizomes dance from chance patches.
His drawing, with its regularity and exuberance, is of course reminiscent of my own.
A certain sensuality that tries to reach the flesh by suggesting it, forms that extend into improbable undulating filaments, reminiscent of the gesticulations of my jellyfish trailing plumes of red tentacles behind them.
And I too try to make the disturbing, even the repulsive, beautiful and seductive.
I discovered the second artist in Tinos, Greece, home of marble, light and the sea.
His relationship with the world and his natural environment spontaneously echoed my own. As a sculptor, Giorgos Papasotiriou introduced me to the fertility of the material, removing the excess to reveal the pure form contained within the veins of the marble.
He manages to make each fold vibrate, sublimating a paradoxical fragility. The marble, cut to the extreme, reveals its transparencies.
It pays homage to the symmetrical beauty of marine organisms, while going straight to the heart of the matter.
The three of us, with our distinctive techniques, trace, brush and, through our gestures, render our vision, in resonance with the world that serves as our model.
Mireille Liénard
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