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Equilibrium
Olivier Valsecchi, 11 May - 13 June 2021

Equilibrium: Olivier Valsecchi

Past exhibition
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Olivier Valsecchi, Solange, 2014

Olivier Valsecchi French, b. 1979

Solange, 2014
Series: Drifting
C-Type print
80 x 120 cm
31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in
Edition of 3
60 x 90 cm
23 5/8 x 35 3/8 in
Edition of 7
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FRANÇAIS CI-DESSOUS Olivier Valsecchi's Drifting series is a journey through art history where each picture merges the tradition of the reclining nude with the still life painting genre from Flanders....
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FRANÇAIS CI-DESSOUS
Olivier Valsecchi's Drifting series is a journey through art history where each picture merges the tradition of the reclining nude with the still life painting genre from Flanders. Faithfully devoted to his chiaroscuro approach of light, straightforward sense of composition and muted colour schemes, Valsecchi replaces baroque floral arrangements and the overlapping motif of Memento Mori by pale bodies, in order to create what he calls a Flesh Vanitas. His taste for eerie atmospheres draws the viewer into paradoxical tableaux where flowing movement and dumb stillness mysteriously interact.

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FRANÇAIS
La série Drifting présente un jeu de paradoxes propre à Olivier Valsecchi, comme une médiation entre ses deux précédentes séries: le traitement pictural, tout en clair-obscur de Dust, associé à l'architecture du corps poussée à l'extrême dans Klecksography. Il s'agit d'une traversée de l'histoire de l'art, une invitation à revisiter les figures de la peinture classique tels le nu allongé ou la nature morte hollandaise du XVIIe siècle.En donnant chair à la Vanité, Valsecchi s'affranchit de la multitude de motifs symboliques afin que le corps humain représente l'unique allégorie de la composition. Dans un style à la fois baroque par sa tonalité et épuré dans la composition, il décroche le nu couché de sa lascivité en le ranimant par un mouvement faisant écho au sable s?écoulant de la clepsydre. L'auteur crée ainsi un espace ténu entre immobilité et glissement, confrontant l'inertie à la latence d’un mouvement finalement nécessaire.

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