déborder la toile
The exhibition “Déborder la toile“ (Overflow the canvas) looks at how the principles and intuitions that shaped the work of the artist Olivier Debré (1920-1999) are used today. For him, the visual elements that form the canvas reflect the sensations experienced during its creation. This quest for expressiveness led him to expand his pictorial gesture and broaden his colour range, a process which is reflected in the exhibition through ten or so of his previously unseen canvases presented in conjunction with the works of five contemporary artists.
The five artists grouped in this exhibition, who present their work alongside that of Olivier Debré, represent these new hybrid pictorial paths that question more than ever before the relationship of the work to space and the visitor’s perceptions. They remind us of the painter’s desire to infuse the canvas with the emotions felt in front of the landscape during the creative process so that the viewer can in turn become imbued with it.
“It quickly became clear to me that it was not so much the object observed but the sensation produced by this object that was important, and this sensation was, ultimately, the reality that had to be painted.”1
As if reflecting this principle, Charlotte Denamur, Ann Veronica Janssens, Renée Levi, Flora Moscovici and Thu Van Tran explore the properties of the material, magnifying it in the visitor’s physical experience, while continuing to play on the mysterious, impalpable principle of appearance and colourful illumination.
*Jean Grenier, Entretiens avec dix-sept peintres non-figuratifs, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1963, pp.75-76.
olivier debré :
Olivier Debré was born in Paris into a family of doctors and artists. He began painting and drawing as a child, and then turned to a career in architecture. In 1938, he graduated from the Paris School of Fine Arts in the architecture section. However, he decided to devote himself to painting.
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charlotte denamur :
Charlotte Denamur was born in 1988 in Paris, she lives and works in Paris and Ivry-sur-Seine.
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ann veronica janssens :
Ann Veronica Janssens was born in Folkestone in 1956 and lives and works in Brussels.
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renée levi :
Born in 1960 à Istanbul (Turquie). Renée Levi lives and works Nice (France) and Bâle (Suisse).
flora moscovici :
Flora Moscovici was born in 1985 in Paris, she lives and works in Paris.
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thu van tran :
Born in 1979 in Ho Chi Minh (Viêt Nam). Thu Van Tran lives and works Paris (France)
The exhibition “Déborder la toile“ (Overflow the canvas) looks at how the principles and intuitions that shaped the work of the artist Olivier Debré (1920-1999) are used today. For him, the visual elements that form the canvas reflect the sensations experienced during its creation. This quest for expressiveness led him to expand his pictorial gesture and broaden his colour range, a process which is reflected in the exhibition through ten or so of his previously unseen canvases presented in conjunction with the works of five contemporary artists.
The five artists grouped in this exhibition, who present their work alongside that of Olivier Debré, represent these new hybrid pictorial paths that question more than ever before the relationship of the work to space and the visitor’s perceptions. They remind us of the painter’s desire to infuse the canvas with the emotions felt in front of the landscape during the creative process so that the viewer can in turn become imbued with it.
“It quickly became clear to me that it was not so much the object observed but the sensation produced by this object that was important, and this sensation was, ultimately, the reality that had to be painted.”1
As if reflecting this principle, Charlotte Denamur, Ann Veronica Janssens, Renée Levi, Flora Moscovici and Thu Van Tran explore the properties of the material, magnifying it in the visitor’s physical experience, while continuing to play on the mysterious, impalpable principle of appearance and colourful illumination.
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