JOHANNE CORNO SYLVAIN TREMBLAY - Opera Gallery

JOHANNE CORNO
SYLVAIN TREMBLAY
Opera Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition that includes a retrospective of artworks by
two renowned contemporary artists from Canada: Johanne Corno and Sylvain Tremblay. These artists play a
vital role in the American Art Market. One by her thick texture mostly realized by a brightness of colors depicting
erotic faces. The other, by his very unique technique, combining an abundance of materials on canvas. On the
way she underlines the faces of her characters, in their eyes and the freedom and ecstasy they express, we cannot
deny that Corno’s work is inspired by American pop art and artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein
from the 60s and 70s. On the other hand, the composition of Tremblay’s paintings can refer to American street
art and artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Johanne Corno is a Canadian female artist based in New York, who distinguishes her style by representing erotic
faces. Inspired by neo pop art, her style is very much orbiting towards a use of bright and funky colors slashed
and applied roughly with a handful of strokes. These multiple strokes therefore create movement, dynamism
and momentum: beautiful and sumptuous faces accentuated by the movement of their hair and the rotation of
their faces.
Sylvain Tremblay is another well - established artist who combines resin and lacquer on canvas. His type of
representation draws its lines between abstraction and figurative. Individuals represented on his canvases are
limited significantly by the use of outer lines underlining simply and specifically their silhouettes. Characters of
men and women are mainly presented on the foreground whereas the background focuses on colors and shine
with the use of acrylic, mosaics of colors and a varnish that emphasizes the brightness of the piece compared to
the plasticity of the metallic lustre.
Opera Gallery wishes you a prosper year and a pleasant evening in our special exhibition. We hope the event
will inspire our observers’ imagination and strive them into new heights and new ideas.
Once again, we look forward to seeing you in Opera Gallery.
Gilles Dyan
Founder and Chairman
Opera Gallery Group
Ahmad Bachan
Manager
Opera Gallery Dubai
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