17.11.2016 — 14.01.2017
Celestial Bodies
Curator : Matthieu Poirier In collaboration with Galerie Le Minotaure and Alain Le Gaillard
Vera Pagava
St Germain Space
Past
Not only did Vera Pagava limit herself to the painting, that antediluvian constraint of a wooden panel or a canvas over a stretcher, but she also narrowed her focus to oil painting, and, up to 1960, to genres as traditional as the still life and the landscape. And yet, against all expectations, her art is highly singular, combining formal purity with luminous intimacy. The artist developed this very personal pictorial universe with unfailing constancy and determination, always defying pictorial practices that, setting out to give life to a form of painting that modernity had declared dead and buried, often tended towards the spectacular, whether by expressiveness of touch and the use of more modern mediums such as acrylic, or by recourse to emphatic formats.
Matthieu Poirier
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Thursday, November 17