BERTHET-AITTOUARES

Carte blanche to Clotilde Scordia

 

In the age of the Anthropocene, how can we bear witness to nature and our environment? The three artists in the exhibition, Anne Manoli, Yann Bagot and Paul Iratzoquy, each at a different stage in their careers, are calling for a reappropriation of nature to reveal its power and beauty.

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Like adventurers, they draw from the ground (Yann Bagot), live the empirical experience of the mountains and hiking (Paul Iratzoquy) or become silent observers (Anne Manoli) to bear witness to it as faithfully as possible. When you look at their paintings or drawings, you feel immersed in a creative world of the earth, in communion with the mineral and the plant.

 

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The senses are awakened, the work emancipates itself from its support, and the viewer is drawn into these parturient worlds.

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Faced with the immensity of these monumental rocky beaches, Yann Bagot transcribes their raw beauty. Paul Iratzoquy sets out to map the mountains so that we can understand them better. As for Anne Manoli, the world of water, ponds and their inhabitants such as frogs is a mirror of the soul and emotions.