Kimono, 2024
Painting : acrylic, marble, gold leaf · 80 x 120 x 3 cm 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
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Kimono assembles flashes of red, burnt orange and sienna, cut like fragments of heavy, torn silk, laid on a base of gold leaf that evokes a length of fabric or a wide obi. On the right, an almost perfect gold disc, a rising sun, from which broad, swift black strokes radiate, like banners or calligraphic brushstrokes. At the bottom left, a massive block of gold with crenellated edges closes the composition, while a small isolated red disc and a black touch, lower down, echo the whole from a distance.
I directly summon the Japan that lives within me: in these grey days of Breton winter, I recall the folding screens and the kimonos that fascinated me in Japan. Gold, with the way it changes with the light, always seems very warm to me. My love of this civilisation goes beyond textile motifs alone: I am very fond of everything to do with Bushido, banners, the Shogun, and the discipline and code of honour of this civilisation.
Kimono does not depict a garment; it keeps its principle: fragments of pure colour, assembled without visible seams, which the gold binds together rather than encloses. The disc and its black banners add a martial dimension to the fabric, discipline and honour summoned directly in the material. It was a Breton winter that produced this canvas, but all its warmth comes from elsewhere, from a fascination that I never stop reworking in different forms.
The vibrant red of lacquerware, the aesthetics and the pictorial sobriety of Japan are unrivalled for me.
Presentation
The Breton light as a loom
There are artistic lives that are built in a straight line, and then there is that of Emmanuelle Vroelant, made of bifurcations that, each time, have led her a little further. Born in 1952, she studied clinical psychology, then a 5-year trip, which leads her to Vanuatu and towards painting: on site, two decisive encounters reveal within her a vocation that will never leave her. She exhibits for the first time in 1978, on the other side of the world.
Back in Paris, she opens her first studio in 1981 and exhibits for four years in a row at the Salon d'Automne. Different exhibitions in Paris and the provinces will follow. The inauguration of a gallery in New York will lead her to China.
A period of illness then distances her from the canvas, and she becomes a psychoanalyst and Art-therapist for several years, a parenthesis that undoubtedly refines her view of creation.
The real second breath arrives in 2006, when she leaves Paris to settle in Brittany, in Roscoff. The light of the Finistère coast becomes her raw material, and she finds a creative intensity that will carry the rest of her work.
What strikes her is the frankness with which she embraces her influences without dissolving into them: Michelangelo, Vermeer, Kandinsky, Soulages. But it is Zao Wou-Ki whom she designates as her "true pictorial encounter," the one who showed her how silence and color could together inhabit the space of the canvas.
From this dialogue with the masters, a language of her own was born, "suggestive abstraction": large formats where the material — marble powder, mortar, collage, plant fibers — becomes the subject itself, carried by a demand for simplicity that is ever more radical. "Say more with less," as she likes to put it.
Today represented by the gallery Art and Heart and present on the major online art platforms, Emmanuelle Vroelant's works travel far beyond French borders: USA, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Italy, England, Saudi Arabia…
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