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Former student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes.
Painter, teacher since 1993 at the same school and the founder in 1992
of the association ‘La Vigie’ in Nîmes that she has since managed.
‘The wooden frame is wrapped in a set of cloths. These are
not only canvas covered with pigment but also gauze, lace, scraps and
debris of fabrics superposed, assembled and modelled. Various notions
emerge: solidity and fragility with the clinging of soft and stretched, of
above/below, print comes to the surface, silkiness becomes rough, gossamer
becomes heavier. Vertical divisions punctuate some canvases and
function as mental doors. The richness of the arrangements and clever
organisation of the mixtures take us to a Baroque style, not in the historical
sense but acting as a reference.’
Christian Skimao
E.S.B.A.N. teaching staff
Isabelle SIMONOU-vIALLAT
lavigieartcontemporain.unblog.fr/exposer-a-la-vigie/
I look at the materials and begin to rehearse for myself each of
the associations which I bring to this encounter.
I cannot be entirely sure where paint and textile each begin. There seem
to be no figurative elements to help me;
I must consider how each of the colours and surfaces operates. I may be
anchored to the play between light and dark, the torn and the covering,
the open and the protecting. Something is offered and yet held back ;
covered over, and yet promised.
Whether it is paint or textile that does this in our lives - on our walls,
around our bodies, in our memories of our families, our friends, ourselves,
who can tell but each of us?
In the assembly of paint and pattern, layers before and beyond ground,
there is a tangible, undeniable - even if illusory - meeting - place for diverse
ideas about painting which all have a common source.
In the end, each type of material is pushed to the edge of its meaning
and tantalizes because of what it has not yet disclosed.
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Canada.
Dominic Hardy
Sans titre
Acrylic on and with cloth / 2003