Galerie Carole Kvasnevski
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Professional art gallery

Paris, France

Artsper seller since 2015 47 orders finalized

Paris From December 10, 2015 to January 30, 2016

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"I grew up with the scarf as an adornment, symbolizing beauty and femininity ..." By approaching her new project # 100 scarves, the painter Carole Onambélé Kvasnevski echoes her childhood memories and as a woman returns its perception of the object, its aesthetics in the current world and the transformation of the word scarf that certain movements try to reinscribe in the popular mind. She lifts the veil on the attempt to divert this word by highlighting and coloring these anonymous women in the center of the painting. Their scarf becomes a standard, an ostentatious symbol for freedom. In 2015, she presented this experience to Unesco for the very first time with series # 001 to # 004. With this exhibition, she will present more than fifteen of the # 100 scarves. Carole Onambélé Kvasnevski plays with portrait painting by eliminating all forms of expression on the faces. By proposing to erase the 4 representative senses of the human being, and by keeping only the flesh, the artist nevertheless anchors his female characters in a form of reality. It thus projects the spectator into his own representation. In this apparent void, the visual artist gives her “faces” a strange universality and total anonymity, reinforcing the idea of the project of making 100 portraits, a unity in individualism. Anonymous are also the many current homicides committed against women in Africa, the artist recalls through the black lines of the silhouettes those made on the victims of crime scenes. In the absence of reference, the object, the scarf, becomes the extension of the being, inseparable from one another, by its colors and its highlighting, it symbolizes joy, hope and life beyond all suffering. The use of gold leaf echoes Byzantine icons, it recalls the state of grace of woman, her essential role, her reference and her model of construction in the heart of the artist by referring to the education provided by the aunt who raised her. The baguette framing like a golden case closes the space and emphasizes that the woman is at the heart of the painting, and consequently in the center of Africa. By a subtle correspondence, the frame of the painting in real fabric refers to the scarf painted inside the painting. The artist emphasizes that outside the work delimited by the sticks, between the painting, a pictorial world, and the viewer, a real world, the transition through the fabric, the printed material, takes place by a mechanical process. and intellectual; in contrast to the manual artistic work and above all emotional. These works are accompanied by the central canvas “young girl” produced in 2011 which symbolizes African youth, their strength, their hopes but also their doubts.
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    75017 , Paris
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