{"id":479,"date":"2020-09-09T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliebessard.com\/wp\/?p=479"},"modified":"2023-10-04T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:14:03","slug":"la-peinture-en-eclats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/la-peinture-en-eclats\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting in fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Painting in fragments<\/h1>\n

2019 \u2013 Cl\u00e9ment foundation, Martinique<\/h3>\n
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Julie Bessard\u00a0: Painting, tracing, weaving the line in space<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With the imperative force of flashes and lightning bolts, Julie Bessard\u2019s paintings are experienced from the outset as hypnotic, contradictory, and elusive spaces. They propose simultaneously the opaque and powerful black of their background, which defines their identity as paintings \u2013 that is, as circumscribed spaces \u2013, and the gestural force of the coloured spurts that cross them, virtually spraying the usual visual parameters that limit the image in its flatness. The bright tones of the linear colour forms radicalize a simple chromatic equation and define space while enhancing the unchanging depth of black. Her choice of pastel oil chalks has allowed the artist a sought-after speed of execution that emphasizes the movement while introducing the sensation of a materiality that marks the black background without breaking into it. Indeed she speaks of \u201csomething that rises, that breaks away\u201d as opposed to an incisive element, that would break into the (virtual) depth of the painting. These bright lines of colour, both fluid and strong, are not drawn at random.\u00a0The coherence of the picture is built gradually, in a spontaneous coordination of gesture and time.
\nSometimes, however, these sinewy flashes of bright colours\u201d are somewhat caught up in the deep black.\u00a0The fight is then open to tornadoes, twists, and scars in the painting field.. It is from these tormented paintings that the virtual flights of material woven linear forms unfold in space like great fishing nets thus connecting, literally or metaphorically, the painted fields to the outer space, without actually embroiling them into it. The link between pictorial space and real space, between volume and flatness, materializes through them.\u00a0This elaborate though subtle dynamic tension between the deep black field and the vigor of colour forms, and through the deployment of linear graphics in space, the works of Julie Bessard propose a form of \u00abmega-pictorial seismographic adventure\u00bb that brings to mind a gest of American Action Painting, while the fine lines of the drawings on white paper that create a live dialogue with them, display a delicacy of signs and traces closer to the works of Europeans such as Henri Michaux or Hans Hartung. These \u201cwall\u201d drawings form a \u201csubtle counterpoint to the paintings while suggesting their quintessence,\u201d explains the artist.\u00a0This is strong work, both global and open.\u00a0It offers a rewarding and subtle adventure into the yet to be wholly discovered infinite world of sensitivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ann Hindry,
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Download the catalogue text in pdf format<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La peinture en \u00e9clats 2019 \u2013 Fondation Cl\u00e9ment, Martinique Julie Bessard : Peindre, tracer, tisser la ligne dans l\u2019espace \u00ab \u00c9clairs, fulgurances\u2026 les peintures r\u00e9unies dans cette exposition se proposent d\u2019embl\u00e9e au regard comme autant d\u2019espaces hypnotiques, contradictoires et \u00e9lusifs, imp\u00e9ratifs aussi. Elles proposent en effet simultan\u00e9ment le noir opaque et puissant de leur fond, qui d\u00e9finit […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expositions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliebessard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}