Neumi Dudas Crepel

Neumi Dudas Crepel: the sacred union of painting

It is customary to oppose abstract art and figurative art. Didn't Mondrian realize his first Compositions by abstracting himself from the figurative representation of a tree?

At Neumi Dudas Crepel, on the contrary, these two major artistic trends come together and finally dialogue. The artist begins by creating an environment made of shapes, materials and colors that she obtains by giving free rein to her gestures. Then, as Leonardo da Vinci could find his inspiration in a stain on a wall or the movement of water, it is from this universe made of colored flagrances and splinters of paint that the Franco-Brazilian painter brings out figures and women's bodies. 

Alone or in a group, their softness and grace then offer a striking contrast with the energy of the background. The former are smooth, painted with the greatest meticulousness while the latter seems to come from a happy battle with matter. Likewise the simulated volume of these muses of a new era - that of free art? - he opposes the flatness made of impasto at the bottom.

It is therefore a rich work that that of Neumi Dudas Crepel, where what has long been opposed in the history of art finally comes together, in an ode to painting and the freedom of creation. Abstraction and figuration, color and disegno, ardor and softness, matter and form come together around the sole pleasure of painting, and this almost demiurgic experience that is artistic creation.

Bertrand Naivin