"Shanghai dans la brume" acrylique collage 100x50cm châssis lin 2009, 2012
Painting : acrylic, collage · 50 x 100 x 3 cm 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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Acrylic, collage on linen — 50 × 100 cm
On this elongated canvas, twice as wide as it is high, the silhouette of a city rises at the water’s edge, on a low horizon line. Left of centre, a tall, slender tower, punctuated with spheres and small touches of brick red, points its antenna towards the sky: it is easy to recognise the Oriental Pearl Tower. Around it, geometric skyscrapers crowd together in charcoal grey, slate blue and brown, growing more numerous and taller towards the right. At the foot of the tower, a white, tapering shape glides like a wing. The sky, pearl grey and turquoise blue, lightens into pale streaks, and the water in the foreground picks up the same milky greys, barely underlined by a stroke of turquoise. Over the entire surface, a thin, translucent paper, pasted over the paint, veils the scene: its long white fibres, almost all vertical, fall like filaments of rain or mist.
To describe this painting, I need only three words: back from China. These words place the birth of the canvas after the journey, at the moment of return. So it is not the city seen on the spot that I paint, but the one I brought back with me: the panorama of Shanghai, with its iconic tower and its forest of skyscrapers, as it lives on in memory.
The mist of the title then takes on a double meaning. It is the mist in the sky, which envelops the city and blots out the far distance; it is also the mist of memory, which keeps the broad outlines and lets the details dissolve. The collage plays the part of this veil: the paper’s fibres blur the outlines of the buildings while leaving the essential shapes perfectly legible. The cool, restrained palette heightens this sense of a distant image, in which only a few red touches on the tower still catch the eye.
thus turns the memory of a journey into a veiled vision, in which the modern city appears both present and already far away.
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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