Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

46 S. haupts. Ill. Originalpappband.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Exemplar. - H eadless flying birds, faces composed of miniature soldiers, one-legged -- children, a suicidal mouse hanging from the kg of an elephant, and Saturn, -- as in Goya's time, devouring his children, transmuted into a wreath of colours... Quoting Codard, Raphaelle Ricol says: "24 frames per second correspond to 24 truths per second." -- The paintings are powerful and impertinent somewhat distant, but also filled with an acid kind of humour. -- A keen reader of comics, but also a lover of painting. Raphaelle Ricol creates with the techniques of today: she paints with acrylic, in quick strokes, gives volume to the picture with hacked fabrics, incorporates figurines or objects, sprays her own -- paintings as a graffiti artist would attack a grey wall.., -- As one would expect, this confrontation with the canvas is her way to face reality, to get even with it, Indeed, Raphaelle Ricol knows that this is the major criticism against her: "It's hard, it's tough for a painting ..."To which she retorts: "It's much harder outside!" -- Although her paintings are figurative, her characters do not quite correspond to our usual representations of humans. They incarnate her vision of the modern world, which is difficult, violent, unfair. This is the "reality" that she evokes and materializes on canvas. As if their visions became incarnated to challenge our eyes, but also our soul. -- For her first personal exhibition at Polad-Hardouin gallery Raphaelle Ricol produced a series with the poetic title "Don % cry for bees ". -- "I chose this title", says Raphaelle Ricol, '"because I wanted to distance myself from the exhibition and the works presented. There is certainly some cynicism in the title. But no lies, even though the intention is somewhat ironic." -- To not cry for the death of bees means to ignore that a grain of sand can shatter the mechanics of the universe, threaten our very own existence... "We go too fast and we destroy species that will never come back, with disastrous consequences", she -- remarks.