Exposition "Aucun concorde n'aura ton envergure"

Givry - Exhibition "No Concorde will have your wingspan" - 2c / Art Image presents Stéphanie Lucie Mathern, painter and committed artist whose background - Catholic Theology in Strasbourg, Fine Arts in Nancy and winner of the 2016 Théophile Schuler Prize - bears witness, and Michel Bedez, self-taught sculptor whose works express a raw spirituality. Stéphanie Lucie Mathern: "For me, painting is an erotic act, something that comes from (and must touch) the viscera. At the same time, it represents a material trace of intelligence. What's important is style, and "in the beginning was emotion", as Céline used to say. That's certainly what's important to me, creating a misunderstanding that will end up in a contradictory attraction. But immediate resonance and instant allies are also welcome. My idea is to electrify the undecided masses through pictorial profusion. The moment when gestures become colourful clashes, when the intermingled strokes make species merge." Michel Bedez is a late self-taught artist. His origins lie in a modest childhood spent in the heart of the Vosges mountains, populated by giant trees and dark mysteries. mysteries. From an early age, he was fascinated by the polychrome statues in the little village church, the legends of the inhabited forests and the images of tarot cards on the tables in the bistro. Since then, he has remained magnetised by the sacredness of heaven and earth. This is how "Les Idoles" came about, a blend of the holy and the pagan, the celestial and the earthly. They represent his personal pantheon, his counter mythology. They have become his second nature.