2023-09-28 15:11:02
Mireille Blanc captures everyday images, gently painting ephemeral motifs. “Icing” is a sensual exhibition of uncertain moments.
For her second personal exhibition at the Anne-Sarah Bénichou gallery, Mireille Blanc is exhibiting around twenty works, as gentle as they are familiar, following the same desire, that of portraying an ephemeral everyday life. How the familiar and the banal can become enigmatic is what interests Mireille Blanc, painter and professor at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. “I extract objects and details from reality, I retain fragments in photographs. What interests me is finding the flaws, the improbable, like a Hibiscus flower next to a piece of chewing gum.”
Delving into old family photos, the artist’s eyes land on the details, the objects abandoned in the image, the decorative: a part of a body in the margins, a flower on a t-shirt in the back. plan… His creative process begins with the action of photographing a photograph, by zooming in with his phone on the chosen motif. She injects it with blur, a memory texture, with the flash, she gives it shine. The loss of data from the original image leaves space for freedom and imagination. “When I print my photo, an initial distance is created in relation to the starting object. I like to rework its status to create a gap between the initial subject and the meaning it will have on my painting. Bringing to life what was destined to remain frozen, Mireille Blanc extracts a still life from a portrait, making a hidden motif the subject of a work.
THE COLOR OF MEMORY
For “Icing”, the artist presents the portrait of an ephemeral everyday life, like a piece of cake that has been started, already disappearing, like an object left next to another for a moment, like the folds of a garment… Seemingly covered with a covering, Mireille Blanc’s canvases are bathed in a clarity which for her would be the shade of memory “White, gray, de-saturated or overexposed are the colors that I use the most. They refer to a form of disappearance.”
This is also evidenced by the relationship to the body in his paintings. “The human figure is often present but seen in fragments, relayed to the background, like fingers holding, traces of hands… This does not bring too much affect and allows me to develop the feeling of memory. » The interest of his paintings lies on the side, on what we do not look at, on what was not intended to become a subject. Like Flower Sweatshirt, making the floral pattern on the garment the main subject. “The garment when worn becomes embodied, becomes blurred, the pattern is upset, the drape and folds of the garment become a subject, I like to tend towards abstraction. » Allowing herself to be picked up by reality, Mireille Blanc never knows what could happen on her canvases “I was afraid that my stock of photos would be exhausted, but ultimately everyday life will always bring me material to paint.” Representing a sensitivity of the past, “Glazage” is like a photo album of an ephemeral and sensual reality.
From September 2 to October 21 at the Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, 45 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris. Mireille Blanc is also exhibiting at La Verrière, Hermès Corporate Foundation in Brussels for Coi until November 4, 2023.
ICING
MIREILLE WHITE
Anne-Sarah Bénichou Gallery, Paris.
Par Mathilde Delli
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