Vano Kloe

By ILEANA CORNEA, historian and art critic, in collaboration with the contemporary art magazine Artension.

Disguised images of the unconscious; Kloe Vano's lyrical abstract paintings open the reservoir of emotion and affect. She takes us, body and soul, on an exploration of color, space, depth and textures. We are presented with a mysterious labyrinth of visual information in a secret language.

Textures, or materialization of memory.

Layers of transparent white paint obliterate or obscure the vibrant red geometric areas underneath. One is scarcely able to discern the meadows in their springtime colors, the lighthearted greens and yellows.
The artist, protects, cherishes and blurs the underlying chromatic symphony, leaving her audience to contemplate the melancholic radiograph of a time gone by.

Another canvas, with its woody texture recalling a palisade, a makeshift door or an old broken window, seems to be covered with a whitewash that is flaking and peeling. We experience the two bloody brush strokes as the traces, the signs or the remains of a violent act.
The artiste handles her material with perspicacity. She knows how to give it consistence, or to take it away.
She is master of all that concerns tactile pe...

After a life dedicated to Esthetic and Medical Dermography work that is necessity controled and precise; A serious illness gave her the opportunity to free herself from the discipline of " Doing it right " which she had happily followed for years in her carrier .
Figurative to Abstract Art from Monet 's Impressionist work to the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollok , from Poliakoff's Geometric Abstraction to the Lyrical Abstraction of Zao Woo Ki , KLOE deconstructs reconstructs ....PAINTS

La rencontre avec Gerhard Richter a été un véritable "électrochoc" tant elle se sentait en phase avec sa philosophie :
"I am slave to not intend , to no system , to no fashion
I have neither program, nor style , nor vanity
I love incertainty , the infinite nature of everything , a permanent sense of insecurity......"
En 2005 un stage de calligraphie au Japon avec Maitre Shunsui Takeuchi lui fait intégrer ce que ça signifie "peindre avec le Hara " et non pas avec sa tête......

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