Vicky Colombet
dal 18/9/2007 al 9/11/2007
Segnalato da
18/9/2007
Vicky Colombet
Haim Chanin Fine Arts - New Location, New York
Difference and Repetition. For the past two decades, the artist has been exploring landscape in its representation and possibilities. Fluid shapes, folds and tensions defining lights and shadows, time and physical forces, at once repetitive and always different, characterize the pieces presented in this new exhibition.
Difference and Repetition
Haim Chanin Fine Arts is pleased to announce Difference and Repetition, a solo exhibition of French artist Vicky Colombet, on view from September 19 through November 10, 2007. The opening reception will take place on Wednesday, September 19, from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition features large abstract oil, alkyd and wax on canvas and works on paper.
For the past two decades, Vicky Colombet has been exploring landscape in its representation and possibilities. Fluid shapes, folds and tensions defining lights and shadows, time and physical forces, at once repetitive and always different, characterize the pieces presented in this new exhibition. Darker and more dramatic in their composition and color, these new works mark an important development in Colombet’s career.
Colombet’s oils on canvas are, at first glance, a technical mystery. Drawing from old masters’ methods and a long and continued interest in physics, her technique has allowed her to approach landscape and painting both as a Minimalist, in the reductiveness and repetitive aspects of her imagery, and as a Land artist, in her use of natural materials and processes.
Colombet starts each painting by composing an invisible topography, in order to recreate the circumstances and conditions of the natural events and formations: the folds she forms with the prepared fabric laid on the floor, the weights and the tensions she imposes to the virgin canvas, the repetitive white markings she applies on its surface, represent as many patterns and “accidents” that will afterwards influence and define the deposition of the pigments through a sedimentary process: applied with a very fluid medium the pigments will reveal, as in a photographic process, the first lines of the cartography she has prepared.
Colombet can then start painting with a brush each line, each point with extreme precision by adjusting the chemical mix of oil and alkyd, by selecting each pigment for its specific density, grain, weight, by playing on the inclination of the canvas to create the speed and breath she needs, until, layers after layers, the canvas-landscape gradually reveals itself, in all its ambiguity of technique, scale and point of view.
Born in Paris, Colombet lives and works in New York. She has had numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States, and her first solo exhibition in New York at Haim Chanin Fine Arts in 2004. In 2001, she received an award from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Her work is represented in major public and private collections around the world. Colombet is currently working on a monumental commission for Catalan architect Enric Ruiz Geli’s ambitious project Villanurbs.
Parallel to Vicky Colombet’s show, Haim Chanin Fine Arts proudly organizes the first solo exhibition in Paris of seminal Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza at the Espace Berggruen (October 10 – November 14, 2007). Following those two exhibitions, the gallery will present works by Argentinean artist Eduardo Santiere.
Haim Chanin Fine Arts continues in its commitment to bring established and renowned artists from Europe and Latin America to New York. Haim Chanin Fine Arts is located in the heart of the city, between the Flat Iron District, West Chelsea and Union Square, at 121 W 19St, between 6th and 7th Avenues.
For further information, please contact Mathilde Simian, at 646 230 7200 or msimian@haimchanin.com.
Opening reception
Wednesday, September 19, from 7 to 9 PM
Haim Chanin Fine Arts
121 W 19 St., 10B New York, NY 10011