Monya et Heidi, Italie
Artist:
Audrey Nervi
Date:
2005
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Materials:
Oil paint, Canvas
Dimensions:
23 x 39 x 3 cm
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Peinture
In this painting, Audrey Nervi captures the memory of her encounter with two women during a trip to Italy in 2004. From the mass of images in her photographic diary, she selected this shot of Monya and Heidi floating on an inflatable mattress in the middle of a lake. Captured on the fly, their attitude has been transcribed in an almost voyeuristic perspective, as if they were photographed unawares. Audrey Nervi does not present us with a snapshot, but with a hyper-realistic painting: through a work of reproduction, she restores on the canvas the reality of the experience of the moment through the pictorial medium. The event is then emptied of all its futility and insignificance to become a piece of narrative, the beginning of a story. It becomes, ultimately, the expression of the artist’s attentive gaze on the contemporary world.
Text written by Elea dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Elea dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Antidote 2
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006
All the Same
Stellan Holm Gallery, New-York (États-Unis)
from 2005 to
Stellan Holm Gallery, New-York (États-Unis)
from 2005 to