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Louise Sartor’s solo exhibition brings together a series of paintings and drawings realised over the past three seasons at Moulin des Ribes in Grasse. Executed on cardboard or as digital drawings, the works revolve around two central motifs: that of the cypress tree and the bouquet of withered flowers. Beneath these realistically-rendered representations borrowing from a classical style, the choice of medium, as well as the juxtaposition of two vegetal states — one persistent, the other in decline — articulates a broader reflection on the temporalities of living things, cycles of transformation, and modalities in the way images come into being.
The choice of cardboard packaging as a pictorial support is an essential entry point into the economy of Louise Sartor’s work. A humble material from the consumer chain, it signals both an aesthetic and political positioning: to paint on cardboard is to reject a traditional material hierarchy — that...More
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Louise Sartor’s solo exhibition brings together a series of paintings and drawings realised over the past three seasons at Moulin des Ribes in Grasse. Executed on cardboard or as digital drawings, the works revolve around two central motifs: that of the cypress tree and the bouquet of withered flowers. Beneath these realistically-rendered representations borrowing from a classical style, the choice of medium, as well as the juxtaposition of two vegetal states — one persistent, the other in decline — articulates a broader reflection on the temporalities of living things, cycles of transformation, and modalities in the way images come into being.
The choice of cardboard packaging as a pictorial support is an essential entry point into the economy of Louise Sartor’s work. A humble material from the consumer chain, it signals both an aesthetic and political positioning: to paint on cardboard is to reject a traditional material hierarchy — that...More
