«The world does and undoes itself» of Cléo Robine at Dépôt Art Gallery
Dépôt Art
Gallery, Neofytou Vamva str. 5, Κolonaki, presents on Tuesday 12th of September 2017, from 20:00hrs
up to 23:00hrs the solo art exhibition of the French artist Cléo Robine «The
world does and undoes itself» / « Le Monde se fait et se défait ».
The new season of the
gallery begins with the above exhibition and we will be happy to be with us at
its opening.
The well known French
artist Cléo Robine in this section of her works uses colored PVC yarns.
As Isabelle Diacre,
author of art articles, notes for the work of Cléo Robine at her article «The world does and undoes itself » …… The
world, which is in perpetual movement, is made and dismantled at the mercy of
human miseries and disorders of the planet. These human and animal migrations
carry their share of hope and pain and leave in their wake traces of lives in
reconstruction.
Cléo Robine develops
a concept of wired architecture, composed of multi-coloured voluminous threads
of different shapes and lengths on a vertical platform.
The 15 paintings
presented here show the movements of living beings and the traces that they
impart in the environment. Some alter while others feed. Dispersions,
regroupings, wanderings, the paths traveled, riding the surface of the
nourishing earth and profoundly modifying its expressions. These paths,
sometimes chaotic, are illustrated through the entanglement formed by the
threads and their size. In the image of these fields of sliced colors there’s
alternating emptiness and overpopulation. The weight of these works makes us
experience the difficulties encountered, whereas the light, according to where
the gaze is directed, intensifies the palpitations of this world by capturing
its vibrations.
Through this striking
living patchwork, worked like tapestry, the artist sketches a future in
reinvention.
Also, Mylène Vignon,
contemporary art expert at her text titled
Space as principle comments:
Cléo Robine is
bridging colour gaps to transgress the chaos that matter imposes.
She goes beyond
simple pictorial expressions to push the limits, creating a language vibrant of
sincerity. To make the contrasts audible, to work out the traces, the signs,
the imprints proves to be one of her main artistic motivations.
Cleo captures the
impalpable: space as principle, subject as language, colours as signals ... And
the lines that are pushed to the highest, draw the purpose of a possible and
necessary poetry.
She is interested in
the body, according to the scars of life, avoiding useless chatter, with the
concern for the purity to the borders of minimalism. Her approach is noble and
focused on the essentials. Prioritising the recycling of waste for art, she
proves that nothing is finite, all begins again.
A graduate of the
Ecole Boulle, this rebellious and obstinate artist, nourishes her quest for
sharing, even in the silences of fallen territories.
Recently, the artist
alerts us to the awakening of consciousness and this philosophy comes at the
right time. As the vacuum seeks fullness, Cléo Robine fills her part,
considered as necessary as breathing, to accomplish her goal, with that
humility that characterizes her.
Cléo Robine at her
interview to the art editor Isabelle Diacre says:
“Touch the essential,
not to encumber oneself with the useless or superfluous. My approach uses the
intimate and the universal. I reject the description and the anecdote in favor
of pictorial intensity. What matters to me is the vibration, the deep, the
secret, the essential. That which animates every living being. A
"life" which feeds me when touching a tree or stone. As if it is an
organic need to anchor myself even deeper into Mother Earth.
For a long time, the
sacred bond between the human species and its environment, always in tenuous
and fragile balance, has been undermined by profit and power, generating
incomprehension, intolerance and suffering. It is the very essence of my work to
collect those traces and impressions left by men on a nature mistreated by its
hosts, as so many trials and testimonies of the roughness of our time. Even
today, indignation and anger animate me, even if I draw a certain resilience
coupled with optimism and hope.
The subjects are
numerous and serve as a starting point for my work. First of all there is
nature in which I immerse myself to capture its palpitations. Then comes the
phase of interiorization. I refocus, immersing myself in the musical universes
of Joe Purdy, Marias Callas or James Newton Howard. I am then connected with
myself. I watch what happens. I allow feelings to emerge. Everything happens
quickly: the sketch, the colors, the choice of material, which I want to “feel”
while working. I need textures, the correlation of materials such as wood,
plaster, strips, but also spikes, nails, nuts, threads, ropes, fibers, juices,
soups of materials. The smooth and the rough, as a kind of language between the
finite and the imperfect. Then I pierce, cut, open, close, creates volume. I
balance differences, I tame tensions, I reinterpret ruptures and I give meaning
to every single knot. I seek to thematisize the hidden side of reality and
render the unconscious visible. Henceforward, I reverse the use and place in
its void emptiness and fullness, reality and appearance, the fundamental and
the superfluous. The notions of limits and passage constitute the keys to
decrypting my work.
Even if Chagall,
Soulages and Zao Wu KI have impressed me very much, I remain close to my
instincts and my truths. "Creativity is the greatest rebellion that
exists. If you want to create, you have to free yourself from all
conventions"(Osho). Responding to a demand for the absolute, I seek to
provoke reflection, reactions, repositioning of oneself, questioning with a
free gaze, freed from all shackles. My paintings are not windows to the outside
but doors that open towards the inside of the mind”.
Creating a different
biography for the life and the work of Cléo Robine, the art editor Isabelle
Diacre comments:
It’s in Brest “city
of shades, colours and sarcasm”, as per Hervé Hamon, where Cléo Robine was
born. Already when she was very young, she started questioning her desires and
lifetime projects.
She finds no comfort
in immersing herself in complaisantness and loneliness is her sweet companion
and source of reflexion.
Being a world
citizen, she is well aware of the impact the world has on one’s own
development, including personal responsibilities.
She studies at the
École Boulle where she enrolled in tapestry and where she developed the art of
weaving and working with threads. She further studied interior architecture to
tame forms, shapes,, symmetries and geometry by building contemporary and
clearly structured minimalistic furniture.
Her studies,
knowledge and expertise enrich her creativity and she draws all the needed
energy and inspiration from her indignation.
In 1995 she finally
braces up and dedicates herself exclusively to the arts and creation,
especially painting.
Until 2005, she
painted acrylics in a minimalistic way using big formats and vibrant colours.
She then started
adding different materials to her works. In 2010, she started using coloured
PVC threads in her series entitled “Take the water” and now recently in the
series named “The world does and undoes itself”.
Since 2012 she is
experimenting with a new material, namely, cardboard on wood.
Life and happiness
are important to Cléo Robine, who aims at denouncing all kind of injustice with
her works. She further cares to awaken awareness by encouraging us to enjoy all
wonders that life has to offer. Her work also contains some sacred and
spiritual approaches. Being a free and sensitive artist, she avoids all useless
gossip, doesn’t claim any belonging to an artistic movement and concentrates on
her most primal feelings.
She is sketching a
better world. This is her answer as an artist to this cruel and unfair world.
Hope is right in front of us. Hope embodied in her expressions on canvas,
creating harmonious links between humanity and their environment.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Exhibition’s texts:
Mylène Vignon (Contemporary art expert)
Isabelle Diacre
(Art editor)
Curator: Filippos
Vazakas
Communication:
Dimitris Lazarou
Exhibition
organization: Dépôt Art Gallery
Opening: Tuesday 12th of September 2017, 20:00 –
23:00hrs
Duration of the exhibition: 12.09.2017 – 30.09.2017
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