Les Toiles de Marianne is pleased to announce a new exhibition featuring works by painters Monique Duran Fournier and Jana Kuzmi and sculptor Christine Bottereau.
Christine Bottereau
Practising a timeless technique, Christine Bottereau is inspired by her relationship with the living model. Working in clay with her own hands, her love of technique also leads her to iron and bronze. While mythology is never far from her creations, sculpting allows her to bring to life a different story each time, sometimes deeply rooted in our society, sometimes simply sharing an emotion. Especially for the gallery Les Toiles de Marianne in La Ciotat, a series of little mermaids will accompany her Minot'or. Christine Bottereau attaches a narrative or introspective text to her works, and while the viewer's hand caresses the forms, she hopes to provoke thought beyond the figurative.
Jana Kuzmi
Self-taught painter, since 2019. A Slovakian woman adopted by France in 2001. She fell into painting by chance and hasn't left it since. To this day, she's always discovering new techniques, but for the moment acrylic is the main material in her work. She mainly paints with Post-it notes, because when she started out, she forgot to buy paintbrushes, and these little pieces of paper were right at her fingertips. They're very handy, and have remained her main tool for realising her passion. Her parallel world is made up of the abstract, but also the figurative. From time to time, she dives into the realms of poetry and photography, where she discovers other facets of life.
Most of her work tells a story. A little something, if you manage to look at them differently, but also to lend an ear and listen to what they have to say... a gentle and sometimes passionate poetry. And if you listen with your heart, you also hear music that enchants your soul. Sometimes orchestral, sometimes masterful, but above all music that soothes us and takes us far away... She is constantly on the lookout for harmony of elements, colours, finesse of gesture, choice of materials and many other aspects to be able to establish eternal links. Take a stroll through her art, and you'll be accompanied into a parallel world where all your senses are sharpened and awakened. This is what awaits you during the exhibition at Les Toiles de Marianne, part of Jana Kuzmi in summer 2023.
Monique Duran Fournier
Jana Kuzmi's paintings are inspired by traditional Asian art: golden leaf backgrounds, themes emblematic of their cultures: koi, cranes, ikebana, bonsai, but also the beauty of women and landscapes.
A Japanese professor of French at Tokyo University once told her that she painted Japanese clichés with a European eye. I'm sure that's what Asians think of her work, but they understand that what motivates her is an immense admiration, a real love, for their countries, their people and their cultures. And most of them love her back.
Practising a timeless technique, Christine Bottereau is inspired by her relationship with the living model. Working in clay with her own hands, her love of technique also leads her to iron and bronze. While mythology is never far from her creations, sculpting allows her to bring to life a different story each time, sometimes deeply rooted in our society, sometimes simply sharing an emotion. Especially for the gallery Les Toiles de Marianne in La Ciotat, a series of little mermaids will accompany her Minot'or. Christine Bottereau attaches a narrative or introspective text to her works, and while the viewer's hand caresses the forms, she hopes to provoke thought beyond the figurative.
Jana Kuzmi
Self-taught painter, since 2019. A Slovakian woman adopted by France in 2001. She fell into painting by chance and hasn't left it since. To this day, she's always discovering new techniques, but for the moment acrylic is the main material in her work. She mainly paints with Post-it notes, because when she started out, she forgot to buy paintbrushes, and these little pieces of paper were right at her fingertips. They're very handy, and have remained her main tool for realising her passion. Her parallel world is made up of the abstract, but also the figurative. From time to time, she dives into the realms of poetry and photography, where she discovers other facets of life.
Most of her work tells a story. A little something, if you manage to look at them differently, but also to lend an ear and listen to what they have to say... a gentle and sometimes passionate poetry. And if you listen with your heart, you also hear music that enchants your soul. Sometimes orchestral, sometimes masterful, but above all music that soothes us and takes us far away... She is constantly on the lookout for harmony of elements, colours, finesse of gesture, choice of materials and many other aspects to be able to establish eternal links. Take a stroll through her art, and you'll be accompanied into a parallel world where all your senses are sharpened and awakened. This is what awaits you during the exhibition at Les Toiles de Marianne, part of Jana Kuzmi in summer 2023.
Monique Duran Fournier
Jana Kuzmi's paintings are inspired by traditional Asian art: golden leaf backgrounds, themes emblematic of their cultures: koi, cranes, ikebana, bonsai, but also the beauty of women and landscapes.
A Japanese professor of French at Tokyo University once told her that she painted Japanese clichés with a European eye. I'm sure that's what Asians think of her work, but they understand that what motivates her is an immense admiration, a real love, for their countries, their people and their cultures. And most of them love her back.
