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About this series
12 watercolor drawings, inspired by the painting Young Nude Woman at the Mirror (Giovane donna nuda allo specchio), Giovanni Bellini, 1515.
What Micheline LO said about it
The youthfulness of the face of the Woman at her Toilet by Giovanni Bellini.
Far from the previous densities, these twelve watercolor drawings represented a moment of peaceful, ethereal vacation in the company of classical beauty.
What Henri VAN LIER said about it
In the exhibition... there were, strangely enough, a dozen variations on Giovanni Bellini's La Femme à sa toilette,
the most tenderly radiant painting in Western art. A self-portrait surreptitiously slipped in there?
Or was it to be understood that the truth of the cerebral landscape requires us to be at both extremes at the same time?
And everything in between. Flaubert and Bellini. The Carthaginian and the Venetian.
But also
Unlike traditional portraits, which give the impression of being able to confuse themselves with what they paint,
this series of watercolors offers landscape portraits that are as “untouchable” as landscapes that disappear as soon as you approach them.
Micheline LO, by taking an interest in the classical beauty of the Giovane donna nuda allo specchio, was probably also interested in the gap between the “observable” classical portrait and the cerebral portrait “always in formation.” |