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Natalie Lamotte

 
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2010-T12, 195x130cm, acrylic on canvas
coutesy galerie Nathalie Clouard
   
ABSOLUTELY ALIVE
Natalie Lamotte uses her painting -- with power and reserve, grace and severity -- to express the necessity of using our eyes. She does this not by a new approach to representation to be added to all those that have already characterised the history of art, but rather with the desire to draw from the painting the means to reassess our world. Natalie Lamotte’s canvasses mobilise the eyes, call them, animate them and make them watchful. It is not a question therefore of building images that convoke reality, but rather to demonstrate that the reality of the image is itself the access to the reality. To do this, no representation, nor even the will to transcend by abstraction, can intervene. This would pull the painting back into the vision. Natalie Lamotte makes neither the image nor the symbol disappear, but gives them equivalents, mobilising these towards the eyes, and the eyes towards reality. Obviously, these canvasses set down forms.
They are, however, without attachment, and can be perceived as so many evocations of the world of the senses, so that it is possible to read them as flowers, fragments of a microscopic reality suddenly revealed, or as those oh-so intimate folds of the human body, the lips replete with vitality; unless they are in fact the violence of the exposed flesh? It is difficult to decide. But that isn’t important.
Damien SAUSSET, 2007
Art critic collaboration in ArtPress and Connaissances des Arts.
   

Natalie Lamotte

1970 born in Marseille, France

Lives and works in Paris, France

Education

Teatcher plastics Arts

Grants

Bouvet Ladubay Price 2008

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Galerie Nathalie Clouard - Rennes (France)
2008 Laureate of 2008 Bouvet-Ladubay Contemporary Art center
Musée Estève - Bourges Biennal - Bourges (France)
2007 J.Bastien Brussels (Belgium)
Galerie Artegalore - Paris (catalogue text Damien Sausset)
2006 OGRESSE² Chapelle Saint Michel Avignon 2004 Manufacture des Oeillets Eric Danel – comme une ogresse – Ivry/Seine (France)
2000 Espace Ricard Colette Barbier - comportement n.m. - Paris
1998 Manufacture des Oeillets hors les murs - Paris
1995 Centre d’Art Contemporain - Chapelle du Collège - Carpentras (catalogue)
1995 Ancien Musée Villeneuve les Avignon

Group Exhibitions

2009 Eté des arts - Anciens abattoirs - Avallon (France)
2007 "Rencontres 29" – Centre d'Art Contemporain La VIGIE - Nîmes (France)
2006 Biennale Jeune création Bourges
Les Puits du désir - Commissariat Mohamed Rachdi
2004 " L 'Automne des Transis ", Bar le-Duc (France)
Prix Marin - Galerie Julio Gonzalez - Arcueil
2002-2004 2002 Galerie Fadi Mogabgab – Beyrouth - Liban
2001 Art Cognito - comportement n.m.2 - Commissaire Gwen Raux -Rezé - Nantes
2000 Salon de la Jeune Création - Paris
1998 Salon de Vitry - Vitry sur Seine
1997 Salon de la Jeune Création - Paris
1996 Salon de la Jeune Création - Texte Françoise Monnin
1996 Artiste invitée, domaine du Haut Gléon - Durban

Projects

Present show - GALERIE Nathalie Clouard
Natalie lamotte
Mars. 23 - May 21, 2011

« En s’interrogeant sur les apparences, en questionnant l’excès de sens, Natalie Lamotte démontre que seul l’investissement physique d’un artiste - en vue d’une image déconnectée du visible - permet d’actualiser toujours le présent, indiquant à chacun une disposition et une conduite à l’égard du monde ». Damien Sausset

“While wondering about appearances, by questioning the excess of direction, Natalie Lamotte shows that only the physical investment of an artist - for an image disconnected from the visible one - makes it possible to always bring up to date the present, indicating to each one a provision and a control with regard to the world”. Damien Sausset

Galerie Nathalie Clouard
http://www.galerie-nathalie-clouard.com

22 rue Hoche – 35000 RENNES
à côté de l’Ecole des Beaux-arts
Station de métro : Place Ste Anne - Parking Hoche à 50m

La galerie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 14H à 19H et sur rendez-vous.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 14 to 19pm and by appointment.

Collections

Fondation Bouvet-Ladubay
Fondation Paul Ricard
Collection Emerige

Bibliography

TEXTS
‘’ Natalie Lamotte" par Damien SAUSSET, Historien et Critique d’Art
‘’Là est Kiga’’ par François MICHAUD, Conservateur Musée Art Modern Ville de Paris
"Nuées de chair" par Jean-Louis POITEVIN
"Une ogresse en peinture" par Jean-Louis POITEVIN, Historien et Critique d’Art
’’ Rouge baisers’’ Françoise Monnin Critique d’Art, Connaissance des Arts, Air France
"Masse", Aurélia Rouvier, Journaliste UBIK

Links

http://www.natalie-lamotte.com

   

Natalie Lamotte

291, rue de charenton
F - 75012 Paris

info@natalie-lamotte.com
www.natalie-lamotte.com

   



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