>>> Shenzhen Daily interview Maryline Ferraroli
Maryline Ferraroli with her paintings at the opening of her exhibition in OCT-LOFT on Saturday. Huo
Chengju
A TOTAL of 30 abstract paintings by French painter Maryline Ferraroli are being staged in OCT-LOFT in Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) in Nanshan District through May
18.
Different from painting exhibits that are held in art museums or galleries, Ferraroli’s paintings in various sizes are shown in a design shop called
LSD, where trendy furniture and foreign wines are sold.
Titled “Colors,” her exhibit is a site-specific show where displaying abstract paintings has become a feature of the shop.
“People everywhere find abstract paintings difficult to understand and I know the challenge of holding my first exhibit here,” said Ferraroli, who moved to Shenzhen in
2006.
All the works on display were created by the French painter after she visited the design shop in OCT-LOFT last October and proposed holding a
personal exhibition to shop owner and designer Ge Yuxi.
“I like this shop very much and I believe my abstract paintings fit in with the design shop,” said Ferraroli.
“The other reason I chose OCT-LOFT as a place for my first exhibition in Shenzhen is because it is an ideal place for people to walk around and take time to look at paintings,” she said.
An abstract expressionist painter, Ferraroli expresses herself in a combination of large-format abstract paintings (140X140cm) or a series of smaller paintings (30X30cm), where multiple layers of colors in different proportions achieve a serene and pleasant harmony with strong contrasts.
In her painting, she has been trying to avoid the trap of aggressiveness through the judicious use of pastel colors which make moderate contrasts. Here and there,
the transition of color is made less definitive or blurry to add a feeling of lightness and softness.
Deeply influenced by graphic design, her paintings
display their own dynamics through an effect of movement in the play of proportions of different colors.
One breakthrough she has made in her first exhibition in the city is that she has boldly borrowed the element of black ink from traditional Chinese ink painting and successfully blended it with other acrylic paints on canvas.
“Zou Wou-ki (Zhao Wuji), a Chinese master painter who lives in France, is a good example to learn about the mixture and balance between colors and black ink,” she
said.
Ferraroli has developed a concept she calls “Modulez,” which is actually a composition of several independent paintings organized in a homogeneous
pictorial series.
“I make frames of various sizes for my abstract paintings because I have my own standard for creating modulation with the concept
‘Modulez,’” Ferraroli said.
“I give my clients who want to buy my paintings the possibility of finding a good composition and a good rhythm with a good
size for their own interior decoration,” she said.
Ferraroli has been involved in abstract painting since she graduated from the Higher School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg in France in 2001.
When she presented her concept “Modulez” to the European Center of Contemporary Artistic Action in France in 2004, she was awarded an art studio, which made her realize she
really was a painter.
Since then, she has staged numerous exhibitions in France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.
“So far, I have two agents in Europe, but haven’t found one in Shenzhen,” she said. “It’s difficult to find a good person with a good feeling who speaks English
because my Chinese for the moment it is not really good.”
She is planning to hold exhibitions in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the near future.
Newman Huo - 2008年03月18日 06:09 - Shenzhen Daily
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Bon alors, qu'est ce qu'on peut donc faire à Shenzhen?
N' oublions pas la douce odeur de brochettes et de riz, car la dedans quand on rentre, on ne sait pas quand on sort, successions de dédales, de gadgets en tout genre, de logiciels qui ne sont pas encore sortis ou du dernier dvd de machin qui est en français et finalement en russe, des faux, de faux de tout et de rien, de l'utile à l'inutile, du produit de consommation à la bonne affaire. De la curiosité pour novice que nous sommes, LED, fibres optiques, trucs, machins, bidules...
boitier réseau, changé 1 fois... bref, si tu veux avoir des problèmes, achète au SaiGe, t'es sûr d'y retourner !
Les jours de beau temps, il y a le
galleriste nous a blablaté avec du Chinese Pop Art, ben voyons, difficile de s'y retrouver dans cette cacophonie visuelle et criarde.
Des peintures bien représentatives des villes de la Chine.
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