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| 1998-2002 | / | cadences | / | between earth and sky | / | mezza voce | / | the standing man | / | dawn | / | space and light | / | l'arbre, der Baum, the tree |
 © Marie-France Arnold |
| My approach I subscribe to none of the leading schools of contemporary art. I have conceived a language and an approach to art that are mine alone, inspired by the origins of the sacred. My work as an artist focusses on the existence and observation of everyday life, of Nature in particular. I invite visitors to enter into a world beyond the visible world and the directly perceptible to encounter the creative power of the universe. Mine is a demanding body of work, impossible to capture at a glance. CV Born in Lausanne, I now live and work in Grandvaux, a vineyard village a few kilometers away. From the first, I have painted and created, benefiting from all-but-typical training. In 1980, I attended the Istituto per l’arte e il restauro in Florence, Italy, and in 1983 I trained at the Art Students’ League in New York. My time in the studio of the then-youngest exponent of abstract impressionism, Richard Pousette Dart, was to prove crucial to my artistic development. He heartily urged me to continue to create my own pictorial language. In 1985, I opened my first studio and exhibited for the first time in 1987 and have continued to do so ever since. During all those years, I travelled to the far corners of the earth, eager to discover other cultures. 1994-1995 signalled a major new direction in my work; for the first time I explored the third dimensions, materialized by my plexiglass boxes and later with Mezza Voce. In 2003, Cadences embodied a further important change, coming to maturity with Mezza Voce in 2008 then with L’Aube in 2010. By 2003 I had abandoned individual canvases in favor of three-dimensional and pictorial worlds. |