The painters
The works of Petr Beranek, created in his brand new studio in Masevaux, Alsace, are luminous, enriched with a new energy, impregnated with strength, movements, scratches, colored spots, graphite traces. They translate the various events to which the artist is confronted. The apparent spontaneity of execution of these paintings correspond however to a deep reflexion on the sense and flow of life, an existential questionning that the artist, who is working also glass and engravings (gumprints), tempts to express through different ways.
Charlotte Callens is leading us into infinite spaces, aquatic or celestial, is plunging us into deep and richly worked blues, here with heavy coats, there with flat tints, bubbling or silent, with marine scents inspired by the North Sea and Belgium, her native Flat Country.
Architect and urbanist, Charles Chirinian is also a painter. He is at the origin of a new concept, the cinetic combinations, which concists of a division of the surface of the works intoequal and removable modules that can be interchanged or turned around. The work goes unter a metamorphosis according to the mood of the spectator and his desire of exploration; it is also a real challenge for the memory.
The artist Marfa Indoukaeva, of Russian origin, has become passionately fond of paper, a rare hand-made paper, altogether resistant and absorbent which, in the course of time has disappeared from our countries. She miraculously found a trace of this paper in China. Colored inks and water are her priviledged means of expression. She is processing with an astonishing know-how, in connection to her talents of drawer (she illustrates books) and engraver (she teaches engraving).
The works of Pascal Saini, on tent canevas, are inscribing themselves as declinations of inhabiting and temporary materials – found and rediscovered – and which plans become the spot of imprints, traces of life and action that are superposed. The aspect, altogether raw and elaborated, the non-painted areas and the ones executed with mastery, are plunging us into « an instable state, sometimes condensed, sometimes evaporating », as defined by the artist himself for the work entitled « Etat de mémoire », but also into a possible reflexion on the tears of a wounded world in pray to precariousness
The sculptors
The « bronze bodies » of Martine Chappuis, with free, original and dynamic stream-lined forms, originate in cultures and civilisations that have crossed the artist’s life, in countries as diverse as Guatemla, Argentina, South Africa, New York, Israel, Ivory Coast, where she stayed. The beauty, the nobility and the power of the bodies, the richness oft the patinas, gold, brown, black or green, the subtle game of lights and shadows modeling the surface, raising up the desire of touching, are as many strong and inhabited works.
Poetry, mystery, magic, prayer… at the same time playfufl and delicate, deep and moving, the « Gardens » of Pierrette Gonseth-Favre become lively with a tiny little crowd of creatures or mischievous sprites that are striding along the way of their desitiny, attracted by the elevation and the spirituality, or to the contrary coming into contact with loneliness. They swing between life, reflection, joy, suffering, sparkling lights and subtle choregraphic games of ephemeral shadows
The strong and monumental sculpture in Iroko wood of Charles de Montaigu spring up from the ground like a naos with a heart of light, with its mystic and spiritual load. Vertical, but with a geometry close to the instable, suddenly it rocks and opens, like to better captivate the clarity coming from upwards. A kind of prayer, a hymn to the light and to the conquest of space.
En couverture : Charles Chirinian , « Cercle et carrés », 2017, 32x32 cm, huile sur toile ; Petr Beranek, « Magic & loss », 2017, 70x70 cm, acrylique sur toile ; Charlotte Callens, « Bleu dansant », 2017, 40x40 cm, acrylique sur toile ; Charles de Montaigu, sculpture
M CL1, 2000, Iroko, haut. 171 cm ; Pierrette Gonseth-Favre, « Jardin rouge », 2018, bois, fils de fer, cristal, 23x23x35 cm, Crédit photographique : Genoud entreprise d’arts graphiques SA ; Pascal Saini, « Etat de mémoire », 2002, 114x146 cm, toile de tente ; Martine Chappuis, « Envol », bronze, 2000, haut. 55 cm; Marfa Indoukaeva, « Le voyage », 120x85 cm, encre de Chine sur papier de Chine.
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