BLACK CLOUDS ON WOOD
Référence : 26-1-2-1-1
Black clouds made in fat pastel and charcoal on a board of raw wood. Bordeaux painter Beatrice Pontacq gives us a new series of abstract clouds in small formats.
Length : 12.2 in / 31 cm
Height : 16.14 in / 41 cm
Width : 0.39 in / 1 cm
Weigth : 1.1 lb / 0.5 kg
Artist: Béatrice Pontacq
Mediums : Fat pastel and charcoal
Support: Raw wood and glass
Frame: Black lacquer and protective glass
Inspiration: There is, in Béatrice Pontacq’s painting, something that happens even before the eye names it. A presence. A slow emergence. Neither quite landscape nor completely abstract, his works stand in this fragile interval where the world still hesitates to reveal itself. A shadow appears — mountain or island — suspended between sky and matter, as if detached from any geography.
It floats, silent, in a space without landmarks, bathed in a dull light.
Nothing is affirmed, everything is suggested.
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm / 41 x 31 cm framed
Authentication: Signed and issued with a certificate of authenticity
Beatrice Pontacq
FRANCE
Béatrice Pontacq is a painter in Bordeaux. “With Béatrice Pontacq, we are in the theory of the genesis of forms, in which the space of the work is far from playing the simple role of a container of recognizable figures (landscapes, horizon, clouds), in which the backgrounds tell less a story than they produce the place and time of a mystery. (…) In these “imaginary” landscapes in which the feeling of absence looms, the horizon effectively appears as a symbol of the distance and one beyond the visible, the edges of the painting are blurred, undefined, as for opening up the space beyond the scope of representation and placing the material in the intangible. ”
Corinne Szabo, professor of art history in preparatory classes for grandes écoles
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