Galleries in Paris

FLUFFY PAINTINGS
Figures of grave and pensive children operate as the remanent,
potent sign of Claire Tabouret’s painting. Does this mean that this
artist’s world is fundamentally constituted by that shadow cast by
childhood?
The particularity of the landscape paintings shown here is that they were
executed on coloured synthetic fur and were referred to by the artist in her
Los Angeles studio as “fluffy landscape paintings.” Paintings reified as
comfort blankets, transitional objects? Their imposing size suggests
something more like a thwarted approach to painting, between sensua-
lity and the roughness of the material. Tabouret likes to test her technique,
her fluency against new constraints. For this exhibition, we might speak of
a dialectic of contrary gestures: confronted with these vast landscapes
painted over time, with returns and an emphasis on these obdurate sup-
ports, she deploys a series of monotypes of flowers that are fluid and
refined.