Venezia, 2009

Sylvia Muller  

Born in Paris, Sylvia Muller is a graduate of the Esmod and graphic design school. She trained at the Beaux Arts in Paris for two years, and trained in the History of Italian Art at La Sorbonne nouvelle Paris III. Designer of jewelry and precious objects, she had for many years her own design company, working freelance for couturiers. But she is also a psycho-genealogist and art therapist: she has been leading art workshops in institutions and hospitals since 1994. The artist has exhibited regularly as a painter (Salon des Indépendants at the Grand Palais in Paris, Salon d ' Autumn, Salon of medical painters, collective exhibitions in Conflans Ste Honorine), as a creator of objects (Salon of young creators, Salon "House and objects", Bijhorca) and also produced murals for amateurs and professionals. Between abstract and figurative painting, Sylvia Muller's painting opens spaces to the viewer in which to wander, to stroll through colors, materials, symbols and writings: “(…) The theme of writing is very present in my canvases, in the form of letters, poems, manuscripts, inkwells, cards, old feathers and others… (…) ”. The artist's canvases, for the most part, combine collage and acrylic painting, for a very material painting, offered to the spectator's interpretation: "I like that the spectator is curious to enter the canvas and that he makes his own interpretation of it, makes it his own… ”. She very often paints with her fingers, preferring this direct and carnal contact with the pictorial material, and more suited to her instinctive approach to pictorial creation. The artist's palette is made of ochres, reds, browns, blacks, golds, warm and organic colors that can sometimes remind us of theatrical hangings where a new mysterious representation would be played on each canvas: In fact, in Sylvia Muller's works, there are symbols, texts, clues, paths, different spaces in which to wander, where can also meet the artist herself? “Whatever work it is always delivers the artist's truth and produces“ reunion ”effects between its author and its viewer (…). "