As Long as it Lasts
Marion Charlet
Opening reception: Saturday, 11 April from 3 to 8pm
Exhibition: April 11 – May 30, 2015
Marion Charlet
As Long as It Lasts
Opening : Saturday 11 April 2015 from 3pm to 8pm
Exhibit : 11 April – 6 June 2015
Galerie Virginie Louvet is happy to present Marion Charlet’s first personal exhibit.
To borrow Chagall’s expression, Marion Charlet’s paintings are “like a window through which one could fly away to another world.”
In this new series of paintings, all made in the course of the last twelve months, the artist confronts large canvasses, using her technique with patience and precision.
With the meticulousness of an architect, she blends photographic inspirations, personal experiences, dreamlike elements and her love of nature to produce polymorphous, thoroughly self-contained compositions in which the connection between man and nature is constantly in question. Using a chromatic palette where cold, candy colors dominate, Marion Charlet invents spaces that can be neither identified nor situated in time.
By blurring boundaries, “As Long as It Lasts” speaks of timelessness but also of ambivalent seduction. If the general atmosphere of Marion Charlet’s paintings is at first glance serene, we soon distinguish a muffled rumbling. Indeed, the animals seem stuffed rather than alive, the perspective almost shifting and the cold magnificence of the sky slightly menacing. Upon closer scrutiny, everything seems just a little too beautiful to be true. This built-in contradiction truly calls upon our imagination and gives free rein to our own interpretation, as in a journey of initiation.
Creating a powerful narrative dialogue, Marion Charlet’s paintings purposefully enter into resonance and mutual echo. Playing on this artificial ambiguity – a sanctuary set up in the immensity of space, a feeling of emptiness issued from our human experience – the artist inspires a doubtful, unsteady feeling, a mysteriousness we are eager to solve. “The places I reveal are at once rigid by their geometry and soft by the movement of the landscapes that manifest in them.” By her treatment of this surreal reality, Marion Charlet suspends all temporality, flirting with a form of eternal beauty that memory alone can make visible.
Marion Charlet was born in 1982. She lives and works in Brussels.
Galerie Virginie Louvet, 48 rue Chapon 75003 Paris +33 1 42 71 97 48 www.virginielouvet.com
contact@virginielouvet.com
Marion CHARLET
Born in 1982, Paris, France.
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
SOLO SHOWS
2017 Galerie Virginie Louvet, France (september)
La Patinoire Royale, Brussels, Belgium
Peinture, Galerie d’art de Créteil, France
2015 As long As It Lasts, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
2012 Peinture, Galerie d’art de Créteil, Créteil, France
2010 Happy Blue, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France
GROUP SHOWS
2017
Le vent souffle où il veut with Claire Chauvel, Marion Charlet, Marion Davout, Marie-Anita Gaube, Marine Joatton, Florence Reymond, Lise Roussel, Galerie Françoise Besson, Lyon, France
Drawing Now, Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
Peindre dit-elle, Chapitre 2, Musée des beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, France
2016
Yia Art Fair, Brussels, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Brussels, Belgium
Les Maisons folles, Ronchin, France
3 collectionneurs, autrement #3, ETE 78, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Group show curated by Julie Crenn, Galerie Frédéric Lacroix, Paris, France
Le Kabinet du dessin, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Salon du dessin, centre culturel de la Madeleine, Lille, France
Overline III, prieuré Saint Nicolas, les Sables d’Olonne, France
Cosmic Players, Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, sur une proposition de Basserode, with Sandra Lorenzi, Elodie Fradet and Mengzhi Zheng, France
2013
Novembre à Vitry, Galerie Municipale Jean Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Génération Optimiste, Johnson & Johnson’s headoffice, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Le Jardin des délices, in collaboration with the Körper collectiv, le KABINET, Brussels, Belgium
Shipping Paradise, with the FrenchFries collectiv, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2012
Novembre à Vitry, Galerie Municipale Jean Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Oui à la peinture/ Yes to painting, with Mireille Blanc, Nicolas Chardon, Mathieu Cherkit and Eva Nielsen, Maison Tajan, Paris, France
Un barrage contre le Pacifique, with Benjamin Bichard, Daniel Flammer, Laure Jullien and Pascale Laplace, atelier Km, Pantin, France
Tajan Aunction in favour of Monte-Carlo Red-Cross, with the support of Louis Vuitton Foundation, Monaco
2011
Premier Regard fête ses dix ans, with 50 artists of the Galerie Premier Regard,
Bastille Design Center, Paris, France
D’Après S. Vigny, with Béatrice Bailet, Emeline Giault and Justyna Ptak, Galerie Sintitulo, Mougins, France
Les Fous, engraving exhibition at the Carré Saint Lazare, Paris, France
2009
Les traits noirs de Moo Chew WONG and his guests, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nice, Nice, France
Santé!, Galerie de la Marine et Galerie A, Nice, France
54ème Salon d’art contemporain de Montrouge, Pavillon Arson, Montrouge, France
2008
Oustide The Limits, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom
Une exposition de mémoire, une discothèque silencieuse, le Dojo, Nice, France
2007
Outside The Limits, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom
L’exposition des idées, galerie expérimentale de la Villa Arson, Nice, France
EDUCATION
2009 DNSEP Villa Arson, Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Nice, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux promotion
2008 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Erasmus program exchange, London, United Kingdom
2005 Diplôme de Graphisme, Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (ISAA), Paris, France
RESIDENCIES
2015 Chamalot, Moustiers-Ventadour, France
2013 Cité Internationale des Arts with the FrenchFries collective, Paris, France
PUBLICATION/ PRESS/ COLLECTION
2014 Marion Charlet, A l’abri des phantasmes, by Julie CRENN
2013 Du cliché et de la création, by Jean-Louis POITEVIN for the FrenchFries collective
FrenchFries, Live and exotes by Julie CRENN in Inferno Journal, Paris
Génération Optimiste, catalogue de l’exposition
Design of « Woman’s Day » , Poster for the city of Vitry-sur-Seine, France. Posters edited in 400 copies on the J.C Decaux boards in the city
2012 Oui à la peinture / Yes to painting, catalogue of the Maison Tajan
2011 Plastiquement vôtre, BBI, article on the association Plastiquement Vôtre
2010 Les peintures de Marion Charlet déterminent des lieux entre nature et artifice, by Marc Desgranchamps
2009 Les traits Noirs de Moo Chew WONG et ses invités in Santé !, exhibition catalogue, week n°18
2007 Surprenante Villa Arson !, Isabelle Mauchin, web article, Connaissance des Arts
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Belgium, France and United Kingdom
