Art Trope Gallery features Painter Evelyne Puech in a dedicated article!
We are pleased to present Painter Evelyne Puech :
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Coming from a family of artists, Evelyne Puech practiced the reverse glass painting technique with her mother from the age of six. She naturally committed to the School of Decorative Arts’ path in Geneva, then obtained a diploma of Artistic Maturity in the Visual Arts section to finish with the University of Geneva in the field of psychology and psychotherapy at the IRAT Institute in Lyon.
Evelyne Puech is driven by the need to build and express a universe in which she highlights a form of beauty and poetry and to share it. This choice of technique and material has always been the basis of the plastic and aesthetic research of the artist, particularly for reasons of transparency, superimpositions and inversions. The reference artists who inspire her artistic universe are figures of lyrical, mystical or figurative abstraction such as Chu Teh Chu, Zao Wu Ki, Zaoming Wu or even Turner, Brüggel et Bosh.
Evelyne Puech explores reverse glass painting. This technique was widely used for sacral paintings until the Renaissance. It also corroborates the content and meaning of the work of the painter who likes to think upside down, to see things from the other side. It promotes the mobility of her mind.
Evelyne Puech’s approach constitutes both a movement towards authenticity and an awareness of the irreversible. The accuracy of the gesture takes precedence since what is painted once cannot be touched up again. By leaving an imprint, that of the initial trace, the artist has personally reappropriated this technique with a contemporary support replacing glass by alternating vaporous textures to intensify the material.
Evelyne Puech offers in all of her work a symbolic connotation, a universe of transparence and materials, a present including a past through subjects that each person can cross. Her works are generally made up of three or four plexiglas spaced out in order to bring a third dimension, which strongly distinguishes her art.
The series “Rebirth” by Evelyne Puech
“Through this series, I explore the need to return to the feeling of spontaneity, joy, discovery or feedback towards the free child inside oneself. It expresses the quest to return to the life drive, the a-live, underlining a birth or a rebirth.”
This plastic research raises the question of the need to give up in order to find, to escape something or even to flee to save oneself. “Rebirth” makes it possible to establish a dialogue between painting and the association of different plexiglas. This support stands out through its clarity, its transparency but also its limpidity. This introspection carried out in painting arises at a time when society constantly asks us to confront each other. This is how our choices guide us towards this forgotten freedom: our ability to rehabilitate ourselves by freeing ourselves, by leaving what no longer has any place to be.
The series “Anonymous Configurations” by Evelyne Puech
A poetic investigation of cubic components, both stereotypical and singular, is presented in Anonymous Configurations.The figures are metaphorical individuals, dehumanized and similar to constellations, revealing themselves only through their reflections or their relationships with each other.The forms are therefore defined by the spaces that keep them apart, their convergences and declinations, the junctions that connect them, their spacings, the edges that separate or connect them, and their balance of power. Voids and volumes are disincarnated and hinge on their allegorical powers and on the matter they are made of, both tangible and ethereal. A mise-en-abîme of the relationship between the inner and the outer self, this research also refers to the position of the individual in his or her urban environment and in the various groups with which he or she interacts. To me, this series highlights the paradox of a plastic research that concentrates on an increasingly in-depth study of a transparent and three-dimensional material, and on the reduction of the subjects to their symbolic intensity.
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