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FANUELE – POLARIS

Galleries — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 15:25:18 +0000

In the principle of the last works of Vanessa Fanuele, a window. The one in front of which, walking through the Villa Malaparte, she will be struck down: that famous hole in the wall in front of the author’s office where, under the effect of the frame, a portion of the Mediterranean panorama is suddenly organized as a historia. The window – and likewise the canvas -, place of appearance of the image proposing only a view by essence distanced and fragmentary of the world. It is from this dialectic between opening and border, between perspective and screen that his recent paintings proceed. Her taste for landscapes had already led her to explore this very particular expression of the genre, the veduta – classical painting of urban views aiming at imitating, for memento, the high places of the Grand Tour. The previous series of Ultras is explicitly in this register. Vanessa Fanuele depicts a series of photographs taken from old magazines and faded Polaroids, compiling emblematic buildings of modern architecture – those of Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, Le Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe, as many souvenirs borrowed from her imaginary museum. With this difference however: where the representative and descriptive intentions prevailed for the vedutists, she does not bother with any fidelity to the optical perception. On the contrary, it questions it. ( extract from the text « Le ciel est plus loin » from Marion Delage de Luget )

FANUELE – POLARIS

Galleries — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:08:06 +0000

Vanessa Fanuele, presents at Polaris Gallery, new paintings, sculptures and works on paper.
In a set of assemblies of various frames, the Éclats sauvages series reveals a neglected and then reconstructed representation and an atmosphere that encourages contemplation.
The possible movements of these « fragments of nature » imply an unpredictable composition and a renewal of perception. One landscape then generates several other landscapes, so the work can constitute itself by a aleatory composition.
The vegetal density of the jungles has given way to visible structures or rather oscillating structures that reveal the rhythm of the work. The hidden laws and disorders of nature seem to be channeled by a visible structure referring to the body.
« L’éternel retour » is a painting on canvas where silhouettes can hardly be distinguished in the middle of abundant vegetation under layers composed of stains and glazes, to such an extent that nature and the body overlap. There is here again a set of assemblies, of memory, a survival. Is the landscape a pretext to reveal presences?
These ghost bodies evoke those of slaves who fuse into a cotton field. The landscape they have shaped then appears as the support of a living history. The body-memory but also the landscape-body are notions that the artist approaches with discretion as the question of wandering, imbalance and erasure.

Galerie Polaris – Paris 3

Galleries — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:08:39 +0000

Created by Bernard Utudjian, Polaris Gallery is one of the first contemporary art gallery of this area of Le Marais, in Paris. The new space rue des Arquebusiers, ( incredible array of contemporary talent between this street and rue Saint-Claude) was inaugurated in 2009, (The development was confided to Odile Decq, architect of recent Museum of Contemporary Art in Roma ( Macro) . Polaris made the very first solo exhibitions of the main artists represented, and is always open to emerging and newest tendencies in art. The gallery represents : Etienne Armandon, Eric Aupol, Bart Baele, Yto Barrada, Monika Brandmeier, Matthias Bruggmann, Antonio Caballero, Marcos Carrasquer, John Casey, Odile Decq, Simon Faithfull, Vanessa Fanuele, Harald Fernagu, Patrick Guns, Anthony Hernandez, Louis Heilbronn, Khaled Jarrar, Richard Mudariki, Sara Ouhaddou, Nigel Rolfe, Gaétan Vaguelsy, Walter Van Beirendonck, Clémence Van Lunen, Simon Willems.