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Discoveries ep2

by Kathleen Burlumi

Le Poisson Francoise Lescaut

Françoise Lescaut showed work in an exhibition called “art singulier” in the Maison Gibert à Lézignan-Corbières, France in july 2008.

We discovered these works, almost hidden away in the small room, the farest away from the main exhibition space.
I couldn’t accept the definition of the work as ” Singular Art ” (a form of Art Brut) although it shares
some qualities with that very personal, even private genre.
In many ways it fulfills the criteria proper to mainstream art. For example there is a feeling for space
form and balance, texture and surface akin to the collages of Kurt Schwitters, notably in the assemblage entitled “Fish” . This small work is resonant not only with the feeling of sea-change-
but has compositional tensions as subtle as in a Paul Klee – or textural intricacies as profound as in a Jean Dubuffet.

Zoë Redman

Mark Lockett

Stanley Adler

Les Rendez-vous de L.A.M.E. liens entre arts visuels Musique Ecriture

au Portail à Roulettes

66600 Salses le Château

19 – 28 september 2008

108 Portes intérieures

The english artist Zoë Redman, who was active in London during the 80′s with video, installation and performance escaped to France in 1990 where she devotes herself to painting.

For this Rendez-vous in Salses le château on the 19th of september, she surprised us with her first experiment in using video and painting together in a performance.

You could see her painting in a video projected on the floor, on which she put 2 canvases to recreate the activity at the same time as the video was playing. The filmed images mixed with the instant reality of painting, pigments on pixels, her virtual hand movements and her live work, creating fascinating images of a inner and outer world put into an image mixer.

At the same time Mark Lockett and Stanley Adler were improvising on piano and violin to create a harmonious compilation of expressive art.