Emmanuelle Villard
dal 3/9/2014 al 24/10/2014
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Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
3/9/2014
Emmanuelle Villard
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Painting, arsenic and old lace(s). She goes to and for between the medium's seduction, the painting itself that attracts us and a feminity that has something a little lurid in itself.
As a painter, Emmanuelle Villard cherishes practicing and experiments, her favorite « pattern »
implies seduction but also an ambivalent look on
her surroundings. She goes to and fro between
the medium’s seduction, the painting itself that
attracts us and a feminity that has something a
little lurid in itself. In her work, one doesn’t exist
without the other, each leading to the discovery
of those two other aspects.
Far from the less is more aesthetics, with many
allusive elements, she forces the viewer to deal
with an extreme universe where painting is garnished with surface reflections, glitters, pearls,
strass and other trinkets, thus creating mixed feelings deeply rooted in each
of us. She seduces, surprises, shocks, flirts with, entices, and catches our eyes
while rejecting our attention at the same time.
It has to do with spectacle and acting. Nothing odd then when Emmanuelle
Villard starts working on a show called “Objet Spectacle” in which she develops her pictorial materials. This project, recently presented in the MAC/VAL,
will be shown as the reopening of her exhibition the first Saturday of October.
The other pieces in
Painting, arsenic and old lace(s)
echo this production. One
can find two new series of paintings:
Levés de rideaux
(Pulling the curtain), an
evocation of the stage and of
Parrhasius
curtain, facing her
Scènes de crime
(Crime scenes) in which laces, pearl necklaces and drapery seem riddled with
bullet holes in a narrative dimension since the crime subject would be both
feminity and painting. Some
Medley
enriched with shells and pompoms, some
Lace
paintings, with an air of Spanish mantillas, as well as her collages excessively saturated complete this body of works.
A thread can be woven between the broidered mount and the lace-canvas
to bring in mind the arachnidan idea of imprisoning our gaze and capturing
thousands of pearls and painted diamonds, glues or fixed on the painting. A
provocatively dangerous tendency, between baroc and arsenic, that paves the
way to themes and titles such as
Crime scenes
or
Lace, whose ambiguity provides for our thrill of captive seduction.
Presentation of the « Objet spectacle » on the 4th of October
with Marion Delage de Luget and Emmanuelle Villard
Image: Scène de crime N°12, acrylique, bombe acrylique et paillettes sur toile, 73 x 60 cm, 2014
Opening: Thursday, 4th september – 6pm
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
17 rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, 75003 Paris
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6:30pm