Dear friends of the gallery,
in her first solo exhibition Reactance at Galerie Vera Munro, Paris-born artist Agathe de Bailliencourt is showing nine works from a series of paintings created between 2017 and 2019, in which she painted directly onto the fibres of three raw materials using acrylic paint: Linen, jute and cotton.
These paintings can be imagined as formulations of gravity and gesture. »Working vertically, engaging with gravity and the physicality of the materials« says Agathe de Bailliencourt »I was trying to materialise the fragile, fleeting and unpredictable moment just before falling«.
De Bailliencourt opens up conceptually clearly defined scope for the free (colour) flow in her painting. Her large-format works – the exhibition brings together six large-scale paintings and three smaller ones – are located in the resonance space of autonomous abstract colour field painting.
Association cluster:
The work of Lynda Benglis, in particular her bronze sculpture ‘Eat Meat’, and the works of Fischli &Weiss from the 1980s including their photographs ‘Equilibres’.
