L'ange, 2011
Painting : oil, acrylic, ink · 160 x 120 cm 63 x 47.2 inch
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Painting : Unique artwork
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160 x 120 cm 63 x 47.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
The Angel belongs to an early period of Niki Neuts' practice, when painting became a space where medieval iconography, personal mythology, and symbolic imagination converged. Rather than illustrating a religious subject, the angel emerges as an ambiguous presence, suspended between protection and vulnerability.
The composition echoes the visual language of the Flemish Primitives and illuminated manuscripts, where symbolic figures inhabit a flattened pictorial space and colour carries emotional as well as narrative meaning. Yet the work departs from historical representation: the figure appears fragmented, almost dissolving into a dense ornamental surface where the boundary between body and background gradually disappears.
Already present here are themes that continue to shape Neuts' work: the tension between the sacred and the everyday, ornament and structure, intimacy and myth. Rather than offering a fixed narrative, the painting invites the viewer to assemble meaning from scattered visual fragments, much like reading a damaged manuscript or deciphering the traces of a faded image. This interplay between concealment and revelation would later become one of the defining concerns of her textile and sculptural practice.
I also prefer "symbolic imagination" to "psychological narratives", which seems less accurate for this period of Niki. Her work is more built around the imaginary, the symbol, and the strata of memory than around a psychological narrative.
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Since childhood, Niki Neuts has developed a unique perception of her discovery of life and death, which she conveys at the heart of her aesthetic exploration in a distinctive way.
The artist quickly found her mode of expression in artistic fields, leading her to study at the Institut Supérieur des Arts & Techniques de la Mode (ESMOD International) and later at the École Supérieure des Arts et Techniques Graphiques (ESTIENNE). Over the years, Niki Neuts has enriched her artistic research through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installations.
Her works are regularly exhibited and are part of private and public collections in Europe, America, and Asia.
" Her works testify to the capacity within every living being, regardless of its category, for a mutation that can be either beneficial or dangerous. Through the various figures she brings forth - human, animal, vegetal, mineral, waste - often intertwined with one another, it is above all a common story that is told, the story of their fruitful or destructive interactions.
The materials she uses reveal symbolic connections that evoke this perpetual movement of mutation between life (birth), death (the passage, memory), and rebirth (regeneration). They are fragile and sometimes ephemeral; their degradation and perpetual reuse are part of her creative process, which, in itself, constitutes a possible way of preserving the invisible balances of life that she tirelessly seeks to bring to the surface in the realm of perception, of a 'shared consciousness.' "
Frédéric Elkaim, Art Critic and Gallery Owner
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