Françoise Pétrovitch takes over the Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc in Landerneau
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Friday, November 8, 2024


Françoise Pétrovitch takes over the Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc in Landerneau
Françoise Pétrovitch, Sois douce, discréte et modeste, 1995. Coloured pencil on exercise book, 22 × 35 cm. Photo: Aurélien Mole.



LANDERNEAU.- Françoise Pétrovitch takes over the Halle des Capucins to show a world of images, both poetic and disturbing, peopled with human and animal figures. The exhibition, conceived with its curators, Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane, tells these narratives around themes recurrent in her work and through a rich selection of pieces. Some works, made especially for Landerneau, are presented for the first time. An invitation to the public of the FHEL to travel in that universe and, with the artist, to look behind the masks!

“To go off to explore Françoise Pétrovitch’s work is to meet a hyper creative artist fully engaged in her time. Lift the masks and look behind the beauty of her painting, at the fragility of the bodies and of the minds, the cracks, the difficulty to confront the world including one’s inner world.” ---Michel-Édouard Leclerc

Françoise Pétrovitch has invented an “augmented drawing” in which the visual support is no longer important, nor the topology of the subject or the scale of its representation: It is an attitude. “I can’t dissociate what I say from how I say it… The works come from me, from my intimate world. I trust the work process.”

From drawing in the margins of exercise books to choreography, from sculpture to the stage curtain and the trail around a town, it is the same risk taking that is at work in the art of Françoise Pétrovitch, whose scope the exhibition at FHEL unveils. “One of my motivations is to not be in the mastery, but to put myself ‘in danger’, in reflection, in a situation of experimenting. Some things find their expression in painting, others in drawing, and others still in film.”




The exhibition offers a chrono-thematic trail whose chapters are introduced by the artist’s own words. The great themes follow one another according to their appearance in her work, each one including a focus that balances the theme: sometimes clarifying it, sometimes contradicting it, or developing it in a different technique.

This “augmented drawing” of all the techniques is the operating principle of a work in which the line, matched with the colour in an absolute synthesis, also figures the seeing. Drawing as a way of life, as a way of looking, of interpreting the world, is the thread of the exhibition trail which, room after room, invites us to reflect on the focal point of that work: it is a real exercise in learning how to look. --Camille Morineau

“I fight the narrative, everything that would limit the figures I show. I propose blocks of images, I don’t want a story that closes on itself. If we say everything there’s nothing left to think.” --Françoise Pétrovitch

Françoise Pétrovitch was born in Chambéry, in Savoie, in 1964. She lives and works in Cachan, in Val-deMarne (94) and in Verneuil-sur-Avre, in Eure (27). She’s been teaching at the Ecole supérieure des arts et industries graphiques, the Estienne school, in Paris, for thirty years. Fascinated by drawing from the very beginning, the artist also works in painting, sculpture, printing, ceramics and video. Her universe questions, among others, the ambiguity of childhood and adolescence, genders, hybridity, while playing with mediums and formats. Her favourite subjects evolve, going from the very small to the vastly monumental. An autodidact in several fields, she likes to confront the use of new materials and learn different practices. Without ever leaving drawing aside, she goes from one technique to another with, for line, a red thread.

Françoise Pétrovitch is more and more present in the big public and private collections. She had many exhibitions in France but also abroad. Represented by Galerie Sémiose, she exhibits in Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, New York and Washington. Having been given various rewards, she was awarded in 2021 the Prize for drawing by the Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel and Florence Guerlain. After this encounter planned in Landerneau this year, an exhibition entitled Derrière les paupières (Behind the eyelids), is programmed for 2022, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).










Today's News

December 27, 2021

After hurricanes and pandemic, a New Orleans museum fights to hold on

Gillian Laub's Divided House is still standing. What about yours?

Roland Auctions NY announces special New Year's Day "Multiple Estates" auction event on January 1st

Wayne Thiebaud, playful painter of the everyday, dies at 101

Centre Pompidou presents an all-encompassing exhibition of the work of Georg Baselitz

The Musée Marmottan Monet presents the first exhibition ever dedicated to Julie Manet

Exhibition examines the under-told histories of California through maps, caricatures, city views, and landscape scenes

Master Drawings New York celebrate Mexican Muralism with special in-person panel and exhibition

The FLAG Art Foundation presents 'In Search of the Miraculous'

How many books does it take to make a place feel like home?

Templon announces representation of Jeanne Vicerial

Boba Fett, intergalactic man of mystery

How Nicole Kidman learned to love playing Lucille Ball

Pop-up gallery AD Leb hosts outdoor exhibition at ancient archaeological site

New Orleans Museum of Art presents career retrospective for acclaimed New Orleans artist

Catherine was great. But was she a girl boss?

Orange County Museum of Art to open with free admission

The Met Opera spirits 'Rigoletto' to 'Babylon Berlin'

The world-renowned Burrell Collection to reopen March 2022

Françoise Pétrovitch takes over the Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc in Landerneau

Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire opens an exhibition of works by Tania Mouraud

Lafayette Anticipations presents an exhibition of works by Martin Margiela

Asheville Art Museum presents 'Ruminations on Memory'

Immersive light and sound exhibition activates Grounds For Sculpture during winter evenings

"Muktupolis(Eat-and-Go Police) - The first Food-Police in Korea"




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Holistic Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful