Opening Thursday, March 26, 6 - 9 pm
“Catherine Lopès-Curval feeds her representations with the knowledge built up through lived experience (she reads newspapers, goes to the movies, visits museums, watches television...). It's her imagination that mobilizes this knowledge and converts it into the visible; it's her imagination that forms the innumerable associations that make up her way of commenting on the impressions she receives. Imagination is the power of visibility.
Catherine Lopès-Curval's paintings seem to break the intimacy with nature, but only if we remember it. Such is the impeccable demonstration implicit in this painting: each picture is a real aesthetic thing, but unrealized insofar as it is a means of representation. The painter's imagination is ordered to the seizure of his world, not to the mastery of the real world (otherwise described in fragments with stunning precision). We learn that imagination is the possibility of seeing meaning in appearance, not outside it. Don't we need, from time to time, to be given such a masterly lesson in painting?”
Jean-Luc Chalumeau
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