Marie-Ange Pagnon

Marie-Ange Pagnon, A nature transfigured by the machine

There is mystery and familiarity in the work of Marie-Ange Pagnon. This is what one can feel when faced with these images which, despite their abstractness, seem to refer to a je-ne-sais-quoi of deja-vu. And for good reason. It is from nature that each of his compositions start. A nature that she photographs before reworking it on her computer with which she accentuates the hues, distorts the shapes, magnifies the details. Like water, whose graphic energy and colorful grace it reflects.

After having experimented with painting, she has therefore decided today to free herself from the brush as from any artistic reference to rediscover what surrounds us like so many scenes of a magical broom within reach of our eyes.

She then likes to quote Honoré de Balzac who said of art that it should not copy nature but express it. And if the 20th century was rich in artists who tried to show us the visible world differently, making their works revealing prisms of its beauty, Marie-Ange Pagnon strives to reveal to us the magnificent strangeness of a that we think we know but that never ceases to surprise us. On her computer screen, she then engages in a thousand variations which, like the clouds in the sky, give shape to our reverie. The inspired viewer will then be able to perceive a flower, hair or the head of a beast, as he will enjoy appreciating the harmony of these forms or giving free rein to the wanderings of his mind.

With her, the artifice thus transfigures the natural as the real inspires the digital. A marriage between nature and the machine that gives these compositions smoothness and precision, suppleness and sharpness, in tones of nocturnal softness and iridescent frenzy. A plastic and chromatic richness that surprises to better re-enchant our eyes.