Carole Benzaken
- Exhibition, Paris
- Fri 17 Jun → Sun 17 Jul 1994
Location
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris
Exploring the possibilities of the image, of form and color, Carole Benzaken’s painting flees all anecdotes. Beginning with photographs from gardening catalogues, as banal as can possibly be, this young artist proposes a constantly renewed questioning of the place of pictorial image and the way it is given from in contemporary art.
In her series of tulips bursting with color she moves from the photographic image to painting, skipping any direct observation of the motif. A starting point and a referent, the catalogue photograph is presented not as the representation of a thing, but rather as a visual reality to which the artist adds the pictorial realities of gestural brush strokes and material pigment. Using the banal of her formal inventiveness, the artist transforms figuration into abstraction. Carole Benzaken does not offer a flower to our gaze, but a representation, the image of a flower.
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