La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
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Pigeon entier,
2025
Léa Dedieu
Painting : acrylic, plastic, resin
45 x 55 x 2 cm 17.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€990
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Dimensions cm • inch
45 x 55 x 2 cm 17.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Framing
Red frame
Artwork dimensions including frame
47 x 57 x 3 cm 18.5 x 22.4 x 1.2 inch
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Artwork location: France
Léa Dedieu's new painting is part of a contemporary approach to pictorial bestiary, reviving a centuries-old tradition of animal representation while giving it an aura of mystery and strangeness.
A Subliminal Reference to Classical Painting
At first glance, the work evokes 18th-century court portraits, where the subjects, imbued with a certain solemnity, are highlighted by a dark background and light that sculpts the volumes. One could see an echo of the masters of chiaroscuro such as Georges de La Tour or Francisco de Zurbarán, but with a resolutely contemporary color palette. The treatment of the plumage, both soft and nuanced, also recalls the experiments of Impressionism, notably those of Edgar Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, who sought to capture movement and texture with vibrant brushstrokes.
The Pigeon: A Paradoxical Figure
The choice of the pigeon is particularly intriguing. Long despised in contemporary urban iconography, it is often perceived as a banal, even harmful, animal. However, Dedieu here gives it an almost regal presence: its massive body and haughty bearing contrast with the usual image of the common bird. This reversal of perception recalls the approaches of artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, who, through offbeat staging, question our view of the trivial and the sacred.
In this rehabilitation of the pigeon, it is possible to read a broader reflection on the marginality and unsuspected beauty of everyday life. The animal, treated with pinkish tones and incandescent shadows, seems surrounded by an almost mystical status, like a relic of an era when urban wildlife was not yet relegated to the status of visual anecdote.
A Frame that Prolongs the Dramatic Tension
The red frame plays a key role in the visual intensity of the painting. Rather than a simple ornamental device, it functions as a scenographic element, emphasizing the theatricality of the composition. This frame might recall Joseph Albers's research on the interaction of colors or the works of Lucio Fontana, where the subject of the painting transcends the simple two-dimensional plane to inscribe itself within the viewer's real space.
A work that questions our perception
This painting by Léa Dedieu thus belongs to a lineage of artists who reevaluate banality to extract a form of the sublime. It poses a fundamental question: why do we consider certain subjects worthy of inclusion in art history and others not? Through a simple pigeon, the artist forces us to reconsider our view of the world and to glimpse, behind the ordinary, an unsuspected depth.
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Galerie Isabelle Dedieu • France
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