Thursday, December 29, 2005

REVIEWS

The photographs, painting, and collages of Emmanuelle
Gauthier are each different manifestations of the same
desire, to communicate the basic mystery of life. 
Though the artist works in a range of different
mediums, she never limits her esthetic choices to one
type of image at a time, nor does she restrain a
natural inclination to exhibit them together, creating
tangents of recognition. Much of Gauthier’s imagery
comes from media sources that may include high school
text books, events reported on TV news programs, as
well as from her own senses. Combining first- and
second-hand images, Gauthier simultaneously offers up
a critique on the nature of meaningful encounter and
on those sources of knowledge which contribute to it.
The many specific images she portrays do not
immediately answer the questions they pose, but
provide further details--further complexities--that
open up the perspective of the viewer. Rather than
seeking a highly focused and morally specific imagery,
the artist expresses the broadest possible spectrum,
which in turn provides more context, and more answers
that ironically enter into a dialectic with existence.

--David Gibson, Article Projects

David Gibson / Article Projects
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Did you see the friedlander show? your (trailer)
reminded me of depardons and van der keukens new
york (scans), i.e. images through sounds or sounds
through images. which is good (legacy).. cd

Chris Dercon From The Haus der kunst Museum in Munich



Emmanuelle Gauthier's work has an ethereal and
atmospheric quality, with a delicate sensitivity to
light which creates a mysterious and stagelike
effect on reality.

Irene Nikolai
From Nikolai Fine Art Gallery.


My meeting with Emmanuelle Gauthier's collages

Currently, the artist is dedicated making collages,
after she prooved herself in the photography domain.
These new innovative works, underline an artistic
maturity, and cannot leave you indifferent.
Images from the daily press, advertising ads,
informations that you could call"cultural archives"
are glued to the colorful canvases. All of these
images are knowned to the spectator ( Chanel lipsticks, Van
Gogh sel portrait drawing< american comics, etc),
nonetheless, the images seem, little by little to
become foreign.
In fact, these popular visuals, distance themselves
from the viewer, on one hand, because the artist place
them on a noble medium that is canvas.
In that sense, the imagery used in publicity campaigns,
that an expert eye encountered a few hundred times
before in whatever publications, becomes unique in
this context.
In another hand, the association of these images
between them reinforce a sentiment of amazement.
Since when Yves Saint Laurent lipstick is flirting
with cops?
The visuals transpositions awakes one's imagination,
that is challenged to look for derivatives
correlations.
Did Marilyn Monroe liked to relax by the swimming pool? Was
she a man in disguise, like it might be suggested on
an other image?
We can name these collages " Lien paintings". Our
spirit compares all these images, associate their raw
violence or their warmth, interrogating, separating
and paradoxally rassembling.
In an attempt also to pursue a circuit that draws
painting jets, Pollock style, and working to join real
images to our imaginary .
Distance or superposition of images, close or far away
from the daily life, attraction of the colors and
images scrambling...notions that we observed too in
her photographic works.
We will remember that our high in color meeting with
Emmanuelle Gauthier's paintings/collages is
exhausting, because it requires an active
participation, and still it is advised to glue
yourself to it.

Agathe Dejoie,
Art rep/writer
Madrid, January 9, 2006