"Deep sea in effervescence n°2 - Mer profonde en effervescence n°2" Print

Marie explores diverse territories that she makes her own. All territories. From the underwater world to toys and even angels... Her work is rooted in her environment, playing with incongruous combinations of familiar objects, changes in scale, and shifts in perspective. She provokes unexpected metaphorical associations tinged with humor, poetry, and joy. “Each series begins with an event, like her latest series of paintings entitled Immersion.” “IMMERSION” SERIES A break from everyday life for a trip to Florida. In the whirlwind of this faraway journey, visual artist Marie Charrel Ménard worked on resurgence. The resurgence of her attachment to her native land, to her beloved creeks, to the salty smell of her morning walks, to the shimmering colors of a Mediterranean exalted by light. The resurgence also of her fascination with Viennese Graphic Art, the Vienna Secession, and the artists of that period. Like Klimt, Kolo Moser, but also Kupka and Mucha, this Marseille artist plays with organic forms, stylizes the curves of a sea urchin she has tasted or a coral photographed long ago in Réunion, punctuates her canvases with an abundance of motifs, and sets the rhythm of her structure with a profusion of colors. Her compositions exude an evanescent life, like the reflection of a distorted mirror of this marine universe. Optical illusions, profusion of energy, abundance of forms... We enter the artist's universe as we explore the “world of silence,” populated by shells, invertebrates, and aquatic flowers. His dissection, observation, and analysis plunge the viewer into the underwater abyss, drawing them into the vertigo of the depths until they taste the texture, scent, and flesh of this animal and plant matter. The series of paintings “Immersion” weaves the link between here and there. It remains to be seen, in this temporality, where here is and where there is.