By Emmanuelle Vroelant
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
A World on the Brink, Abstract Acrylic on Linen Canvas
A World on the Brink sets two very distinct territories against each other: on the left, a light, vaporous space, almost empty, in off-white and bluish grey; on the right, an imposing, rugged mass in anthracite grey and brown, where the collage of Laotian paper creates a dense relief, almost a rock face or a piece of bark. Between the two, at the edge, a slender dark silhouette barely stands out, tiny in front of this mass that seems ready to topple onto it. At the bottom left, a murkier area, streaked with red and beige, seems to spill out of the frame. The art paper, thick and grainy, gives the whole composition a raw, almost tactile materiality.
A World on the Brink was born of a shock, that of a tragic news story which Emmanuelle Vroelant...
Category
2010s Abstract Marble Paintings