Galerie Couteron
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Paris, France

Artsper seller since 2013 16 orders finalized

Paris From June 21, 2016 to July 2, 2016

Presentation
Have your head in the bag (hold la cabeza en la bolsa). It is an emotional metaphor, which Lola Martinez explores through her paintings and illustrations. His game begins with this French diction which becomes the common thread of the exhibition. We are going to encounter non-hierarchical representations, are going to stumble upon nothing that does not appear real. The layout makes firm and decided detours, the colors are, for the most part, primary, the balance comes with their contrasts. So we need the first key to the game: this conflict is in "the head". The illustrations convey the solitary vision of one's own existence, flowing in a meditative cadence, as in a state of immolation. The roots, cells or vegetables intersect in an abstract imagination, a place where language develops. These sketches freeze the fragility of a poetic composition, the painting reveals time to us, ours, mine, what happens to us. To these compositions is added a psychological load, that is to say, "in the bag". It is a surprising challenge to interpret, from the front like a player (of which we are a spectator) a reconstruction, that of the narration of his own departure through the scattered elements of a departure already played, and very probably lost, by the artist himself. It's the game. And to the point where the painter seeks freedom of movement to materialize this rare thing that occurs under the brush and find our gaze. A paintbrush could be the image of the control system that dominates consumer society. What if the painted forms, in addition to being the expressions of the human situation, were also free? FREE. This little conceptual journey comes to an end with a rhetorical question. Can we be free? It is not a question, but an invitation.
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    75006, Paris
    France
    0662282541

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