DRAWING NOW – 2022
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Drawing now Art fair 2022
marion charlet, léa Belooussovitch, Justin Weiler
MAI 19 - MAI 22, 2022
Exposition en ligne des œuvres présentées à la Drawing Now Art Fair 2022
MARION CHARLET
Marion Charlet’s art is driven by an imaginary that crosses reality in powerful compositions, whose primary function is to assert an aesthetic where colour is both the pretext and the text. Working from photographs that she takes herself and then modifies on her computer, the artist firstly created a world of original landscapes and interiors, most often architectural, surroundedby profuse vegetation, and devoid of all human presence.
Colour is the driving factor in how Charlet constructs each of her paintings and watercolours, bringing the motif to the fullness of its form. The skillful combination of intensity, transparency and opacity give the painted image its depth, its rhythm, its breath, the artist playing sometimes with empty space, sometimes with full… here an intrusion, while there a screen.
Philippe Piguet
Marion Charlet est née à Paris en 1982. Diplômée de l’École des Beaux-Arts, Villa Arson (Nice), de Chelsea College of Art and Design (Londres) et de l’Institut Supérieur des Art Appliqués (Paris), elle vit et travaille à Paris. Elle est lauréate du Prix Art [ ] Collector en 2018 et du prix de la Fondation Colas en 2016.
LÉA BELOOUSSOVITCH
Touching an aesthetic of the disappearance, Léa Belooussovitch’s works question our attitude towards violence, graphic violence in particular related to our society highlighting the vulnerability of a peculiar moment and witnessing the artist’s humanity. The drawing resumes the clear, brightly-colored image sourced from the press, capturing on the field people in distress without any detour. The manual transcription allows the visual information coming from the photographic medium to become more tolerable.
The image appears as evanescent as a ghost, like the imprint of his source in our memories. Nevertheless its power is still there, in this intimate transcription of a tale of such brutality that makes the eye look away. Despite being physically close to the work, the viewer is yet kept far from the harsh reality: it is precisely this gap between the signified and and the signifier, that has been emphasized here.
Née à Paris en 1989, Léa Belooussovitch vit et travaille à Bruxelles. Après l’obtention d’un master en dessin à l’ENSAV La Cambre en 2014, elle est nommée pour l’édition 2016 du Prix Révélations Emerige. Elle est lauréate 2018 du prix Jeunes Artistes du parlement de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. En 2020, elle est lauréate du Prix des Partenaires du Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métrople.
JUSTIN WEILER
Justin Weiler’s work finds its place within the tension of the borderline between interior and exterior space, between contemplation and domestication, between utopia and dystopia. The surfaces weave a motif that becomes a pattern. Awnings, greenhouses, screens, iron store shutters, plants and bouquets of flowers obey a stratified frontality, like metaphors rendered in the layers of ink swept repetitively across the surface of the piece.
When the gesture becomes persistent and obstinate, or passes meticulously or nervously over the preceding layer, he enhances it while simultaneously removing a thin deposit. More melancholic than moralizing, more poetic than political, Weiler’s monochromatic work suspends the passing of time. Beyond the grid is the assertion of a depth that opens space and renders visible that which was hidden.
Marion Zilio
Justin Weiler est né à Paris en 1990. Diplômé de l’ESBA (Nantes) et de l’ENSBA (Paris), il vit désormais entre Nantes et Paris. En 2016, il est lauréat du Prix des Arts visuels de la Ville de Nantes et, la même année, de la Biennale des Arts Actuels du CRAC de Champigny-sur-Marne. Il obtient en 2018 une mention de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris pour le prix Pierre David-Weill. Il était en résidence à la Casa Velázquez à Madrid en 2020 (lauréat de la bourse 2019, section peinture).