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29/5/2012

Marc Rambeau

SG Private Banking Gallery, Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore

Recording China exhibits the story of an encounter: that of the painter Marc Rambeau with China almost twenty years ago. In 1995 China had just begun its economic development, thouroughfares were not flooded with cars but bicycles.

That year Marc Rambeau also discovered a material which would prove essential to his art: rice paper. However natural it may be to an Asian artist, rice paper was a totally new medium for the Western painter who arrived empty-handed in Beijing in order to experiment new expressive avenues. And his art was transformed by it.
Marc Rambeau has his own way to use rice paper: when the work on paper is complete the sheet is pasted onto fine Belgian linen, then covered with varnish for protection. Most of the works currently exhibited have been designed using this specific process.
Whether he paints with ink or water-based colours – acrylic or water- colour – Marc Rambeau’s hand is unhesitating, his stroke for ever pure, thus revealing another specificity of his work: the key-word is simplicity and the artist « evokes » rather than describes exhaustively. The exhibition also presents some sketches drawn on French hand- made rag paper as well as a number of travel diaries depicting scenes of a bygone life in the streets, parks and hutongs of Beijing. Marc Rambeau’s exhibition should be seen as a path, the path of creativity which meanders around the themes born from his encounter with China in the 90’s: the daily life of the people, the calligraphies of bicycles, buddhas, architectural details, antiques as well as nudes. This is Marc Rambeau’s sixth exhibition in Singapore.

Artist Biography
Born in France in 1945, Marc Rambeau studied art at the Villa Thiole (French School for School for Visual Arts) and at the National Arts Decoratifs in Nice from 1961 to 1963. In 1964, he joined the Robert Boell Atelier in Toulon where he continued his studies. From 1968 onwards, Rambeau’s work took him to the South Pacific where he lived in New Caledonia and Tahiti, until 1985 when he took up residence in Australia.
In 1989 he became an Australian citizen. As a travelling artist in 1995 and 1996, he resided in Beijing for six months. This stay in China marked a new era for Rambeau’s art, for he discovered the rice-paper medium which he has since used extensively for his paintings. The influence of Rambeau’s time in China is seen in the deceptive simplicity of his bold calligraphic drawings and his use of ink on rice paper. East meets West in his colour compositions, collages and image repetitions.
He used these techniques in the themes he developed in Tahiti in 1997 portraying polynesian dancing and the vibrance of the Tiurai festival ; and then again in 2000 in his ”Around the Buoys” project which captured the colour and movement of the Americas Cup regatta . In Australia too his work on the landscape of the Outback is known for its bold simplicity and strong colours. Rambeau’s Australian studio is located in Ainslie, in the heart of Canberra.
Her interests are shaped by the awareness of her internal feelings toward people she came into contact with and find an artistic means to express those experiences precisely.

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Opening May 30

Societe Generale Gallery
Alliance Française de Singapour
1 Sarkies Road, Level 2, Singapore 258130
Mon to Fri, 11am to 7pm; Sat, 11am to 5pm
Admission free

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