Quiet lives
by Coudrain
- Printed in France
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Technique: engraving.
Exhibition available in several formats.
In German, a still life is a "Stillleben" - a quiet life, an expression that perfectly suits Coudrain's rigorous and sensitive world. Constantly returning to the same themes, which she varies into multiple motifs, Coudrain deconstructs and reconstructs landscapes and objects (here grasses, flowers, leaves, fruits and vegetables), which she has chosen or which have imposed themselves on her... It is as a composer that she plays with their chords or their dissonances, working obstinately with the deliberately restricted range of her palette (ochres, siennas, grays).
Coudrain holds a very special place in contemporary engraving, at the highest level of a technique that she puts at the service of timeless subjects, with little concern for adhering to the imperatives of fashions that she magnificently ignores.
From the germination of plants to the evocation of a landscape, everything functions according to laws, and everything obeys a kind of inner music which is that of harmony, as it was prescribed in times of profound humanism.
It's a bit as if Coudrain were always asking the same fundamental question of the poet: "Inanimate objects, do you have a soul?", not to elucidate the mystery, but rather to make it resonate differently each time, for other harmonics. A work that is not marked by the shadow of anguish, that can please those who seek in art the answer to the questions that we secretly ask ourselves.
Text freely developed from writings by Michel Méresse (Spécial Saga, 1989) and Jean-Jacques Lévèque (Saga, 1992).
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
