N’oublie jamais jamais les fleurs
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Feb 28, 2025 — May 17, 2025
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As an Artist in Residence, a role created and supported by Passerelle and Documents d’artistes Bretagne, Marie Boyer (1997) is exhibiting a series of new works she has produced at Passerelle. She is a graduate of the Quimper campus of the École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne (the European Academy of Art in Brittany) and here has developed an astonishing, joyous garden where painting interplays with botany and with the Japanese manga aesthetic.
“There are flowers everywhere for anyone who cares to look,” declared Henri Matisse. This cheesy, rather kitsch quotation might be seen on a box of chocolates or on a sign outside a garden centre, yet it leads to much deeper reflections than might first be apparent, on the role of art and the presence of joy in our lives. That sentence uttered by such a famous painter explains much of the art of Marie Boyer. She sees flowers as “living beings intended to be painted”, as a sort of ideal and...More
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N’oublie jamais jamais les fleurs
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Feb 28, 2025 — May 17, 2025
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As an Artist in Residence, a role created and supported by Passerelle and Documents d’artistes Bretagne, Marie Boyer (1997) is exhibiting a series of new works she has produced at Passerelle. She is a graduate of the Quimper campus of the École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne (the European Academy of Art in Brittany) and here has developed an astonishing, joyous garden where painting interplays with botany and with the Japanese manga aesthetic.
“There are flowers everywhere for anyone who cares to look,” declared Henri Matisse. This cheesy, rather kitsch quotation might be seen on a box of chocolates or on a sign outside a garden centre, yet it leads to much deeper reflections than might first be apparent, on the role of art and the presence of joy in our lives. That sentence uttered by such a famous painter explains much of the art of Marie Boyer. She sees flowers as “living beings intended to be painted”, as a sort of ideal and...More
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