“The Rotating Painting show” by Elvire Bonduelle

@Osmos, 50 E 1st Street, NY 10003
Through April 10, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

Shake it up!

Abstract art has always had a sort of aura because of its original concept, coding and calculations necessary to make it perfect making the artwork almost untouchable, as sacred.

Really? no more to say for French artist Elvire Bonduelle. She has decided once for all when she started her journey as an Artist to shake the principles, the rules and her approach to the making of art. She shakes art through different ways and medium, videos, newspapers, pencil or watercolor on paper, installation, and painting on canvas.

Here with Rotating paintings, the principle is simple. She draws abstract forms that any one can move the way he/she wants. It helps to desecrate Abstract for better appropriating it and it settles a different relationship between the viewer and the art. At large, Elvire Bonduelle helps understand what FREEDOM really means.

 

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Domitille d’Orgeval’s article

The starting point of Elvire Bonduelle’s Rotating Paintings is a visual motif which is as simple and factual as possible: the curved line formed by a curtain blowing out of the rectangle of a window. From this vision, the artist has created a series of ruler drawings that have been characteristic of her production for a few years. She then extracts this motif from its initial context in order to submit it to a set of operations that have led to hard edge abstract paintings, in an accepted filiation with the master of the genre, Ellsworth Kelly. continue to read