Anne Marie Delaby

Symbolist artist, Anne Delabie transports our gaze beyond the threshold, in a world where the Light transcends the shadows and the doubts of our path here below. His paintings in evocative colors are Journeys to Freedom and the Absolute, initiatory journeys made up of trials and conquests: the quest for the Grail. It is necessary to enter into his works to go to the discovery of hidden figures, elementary or angelic beings first of all invisible, and which seem to reveal themselves only to those who open the eyes of the soul, as reserved for initiates . Anne was born in Lebanon in 1964. Drawing has been a necessity since her childhood, but the real encounter with painting takes place in Italy, in Milan, in 1985 when she enrolled in a painting course with an anthroposophical orientation and on theory. of Goethe's colors. She discovers the secret life, the moral character and the energy of colors, preferring watercolor which plays on transparencies, and the warm light of oil, to start with mistico-esoteric paintings which evolved into a symbolic painting and strongly expressive. Painting became for Anne almost a remedy: the idea of art as the bearer of Good, “messenger of the gods”, the Mercury of physicians who, to quote Kandinsky “must pull up the heavy chariot of humanity”, is is emerging: Anne is training in Artherapy, her parallel profession since 2001 “The intrinsic transformative power of Art allows to bring the Light in darkness, order in chaos., and to find solutions in seemingly lacking situations. hope, ”she said. Anne entered the world of Art in 1998 with her first personal exhibition in Come and since then her research has evolved from more mystical paintings, fruit of her spiritual journey, to an imaginative vision of natural elements (Water, Fire, bark, dunes. .) to arrive at an impression of man as a harmonious synthesis of the universe, “concentrated of all opposites, summit of creation” (B. Marsano). From the series “The denied man” (2010-2015) she says: “My painting is a cry: if man does not come out of the dualistic thought that separates him from Life, from Nature and from his divine essence, he is going to ruin! There is no more time for excuses or justifications. This is the challenge today: he must choose between Being and living, or always having more and dying. ” Paintings witnesses of a defeat, “symbolic vision which signifies the deep concern of an era which no longer finds its place” (O. Karasso). Of a humanity without soul, almost without hope. In one of the last series 2014-15 “Silences” the artist achieves pure painting by going beyond form. Her attraction to fashion made her draw models of dresses on natural fabrics that she painted one by one, thus creating unique pieces that were much appreciated.