Ekaterina Smirnova

Megalopolis Lights - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper

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Watercolor on paper Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this...

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor, Acrylic Painting and Charcoal on paper. Contemporary Painting, Seaside Work Title : Ecueils Artist : Fabien Granet (FR) The work is signed, titled and dated verso. Unique work. Size : H26xW21cm. Museum matting & backing included, framed in a 30x24 cm standard aluminium frame. Born in 1970 the artist lives and works in France. The majority of his drawings and paintings are inspired by the wild landscapes of Brittany in France. " The drawing as a gesture allows me to exploit a (re)mise-en-scene as so many possibilities in the making. Through the quality of drawing as a marker of thought, it is not a question of constructing "dream worlds" but rather of setting up a device that would allow for a conscious dialogue of a certain perception of the real." Fabien Granet is pursuing a research on the perception of the landscape, on our ways of trying to represent it, to understand it, to understand its structures. The drawn "landscapes" are thus as many projections of the artist, which convene and reveal his artistic path, the influences of his culture, his utopias, his dystopian fantasies. Another shift where the quasi scientific concern of objective rigor and the mental construction of an construction of an individual course. The drawing appears in this sense as an act as much as a work which The drawing appears in this sense as an act as much as a work which is registered in a research and a quest to pierce the enigma of the real. In his landscapes, Fabien Granet evokes a process of the mind, where shreds and fragments become entangled in a re-arrangement of of reality. Snippets of architecture and geometrical figures draw human and his gaze into it. The landscape is a human creation, but how does human try to perceive it, how does he understand its constructions? what is his mental image of it? Chaos and structure intersect in a paradox of our vision of the world: the artist picks out the sensitive elements in a reflection on the possibilities in the making. Solo exhibitions : 2023 "GRAND ERRE" with Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand, Aix en provence / 2021 "Les Indestinés" (Drawing Now Art Fair) Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Paris / 2017 "mise-en-paysage" galerie Tokonoma - Paris / 2015 "Shiftings" galerie White Project - Paris / 2012 "Risée" galerie G&G - Paris / 2011 "Transistoires" galerie P&Z - Angoulême / 2010 "Tandis que? Group exhibitions (selection) : 2021 " SUMMER TALENTS " - Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand / 2019 " FEEL GOOD " Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Paris / 2019 " Naturalia " Mexico / 2019 " (re) mise-en-scène " Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Aix-en-Provence / 2019 " ScapeLand " Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand - Paris / 2019 " Blanc Ciel " espace d'art associatif La Perception - Creuse/ 2018 " Angle Mort " Ici. Gallery - Paris/ 2018 " Drawing in Gallery " Galerie ALB - Paris/ 2017 " Where form meets Art " Antwerp Art...

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