Michaële-Andréa SCHATT
Paysages en ose
19 Dec 2008 - 28 Feb, 2009
For Michaële-Andréa Schatt, the practice of painting is a simple, direct and revealing tool. It is also a sort of a pit of silence and darkness, a space in which one can take another breath and go on breathing. Her painting emerges from the surface and at the same time tells a story from a story where shadow and obscurity, weave and go beyond representation. Michaële-Andréa Schatt paints the souvenir of landscapes by free associations, where the subject does not appear as a unity of place and an image, but like a combination or invention of disparate elements. She proceeds by a series of successive overlappings of memorial fragments. These "impressions" evoke the shadows of coats, landscapes, coat-landscapes, mental landscapes...
With these "Paysages en Ose", Michaële-Andréa Schatt conceals her tracks, and contaminates the landscape with an omnipresent pink. "Recently, I wanted to be more "daring" in painting, Rrose Sélavy. Duchamp's ritornellos "La Vie en Ose" came to mind: "We assume, we oppose, we impose, we affix, we lay down, we annoy..." Pink established itself like a challenge. In the practice of landscape, it appears beside the point, anti-natural and strikingly out of place. It gnaws and tears apart the homogeneity of a place. Space becomes proliferated, invasive, as if organic. The landscape organizes itself like a coat, an envelope or a negative body.
The exhibition introduces the artist's recent paintings of landscapes and kimonos. The kimono is at the same time a simple garment, but one, which does not reveal its full complexity at first sight. This garment, located between an intermediate space between a second and third dimension, folds and unfolds like an origami.
Michaële-Andréa Schatt develops a body of paintings where her technical procedures induce a reversal, inversions, gaps, the fragmentation of images. The totalities of her works, along with her ceramic pieces, weave the three axes of landscape, body and textile....
Michaële-Andréa Schatt
was born in 1958 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She lives and works in Montreuil-sous-Bois.
Her work has been exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum and the Museum of Ceramics in Rouen (2007), the Vallauris Biennial (2008), CREDAC, Manufacture des Oeillets -Ivry, CRAC Montbéliard, Galerie Municipale Julio Gonzales - Arcueil, Fondation COPRIM - Paris, Réunion de Musées Nationaux, Maison de la Faïence - Desvres, Centre Rhénan d'Art Contemporain, Châteauroux Biennial, l'Art dans les Chapelles... and has appeared in many contemporary art fairs including Artissima, Miami (Galerie Egelünd), FIAC (Galerie Bernard Zürcher, Galerie Jean Fournier)... Her work has been exhibited in the USA, Germany, Denmark, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Italy...
Her work can be found in the collections of the Fine Arts Museum and the Museum of Ceramics in Rouen, the Fond National d'Art Contemporain, FRAC Ile de France, FRAC Franche Comté, Banque Nationale de Paris (France - USA), Musée de Céret - France, Le Bon Marché as well as in private collections throughout Europe and the USA.
Image:
Michaële-Andréa Schatt
Paysage en ose 1, 2008, mixed technic on canvas, 185 x 240 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Isabelle Gounod
Galerie Isabelle Gounod
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75003 Paris
France
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