Les larmes de crocodile
Artist:
Marlène Mocquet
Date:
2008
Medium:
Mixed media
Materials:
Canvas
Dimensions:
200 x 130 cm
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Peinture
Les larmes de crocodile depicts a young girl with oversized, lanky limbs who stands looking up at a sky filled with blue and pink rain. The drops falling around her have bulging eyes and turn into Lilliputian figures. This work bears witness to the artist's pictorial process: figurative elements emerge from flows of abstract paint, creating childlike stories. The characters emerge from the material and come to life. Marlène Mocquet also uses contrasts between very soft colours, treated as washes, and denser impastos of matter. She conjures up the world of childhood in all its dimensions, whether dreamlike or nightmarish. The title of the canvas (Crocodile tears) also evokes this childlike world.
Text written by Valentine Brégeon as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Valentine Brégeon as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Antidote 4
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 09 Oct to 06 Dec 2008
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 09 Oct to 06 Dec 2008