L'Officiel Galeries & Musées - Nora Djabbari
En 2020, le Musée Marmottan Monet invitait Vicky Colombet pour une discussion visuelle entre elle et Claude Monet intitulée “ Dialogues Inattendus – Peindre comme la Rivière”. Elle est de retour avec sa nouvelle exposition “Eau et lumière” à la Galerie Dutko. Ici, l’artiste explore notre perception visuelle de la nature et montre avec sa nouvelle série des visions qui continuent d’évoquer l’impressionnisme. Les éclats d’un étang, la matière cotonneuse des nuages en passant par les reflets miroitants du soleil sur l’océan ou des tranches de ciel qui se révèlent en montrant toute leur splendeur… Vicky Colombet nous invite dans sa poésie picturale pour contempler ses compositions complexes. Ici, grands formats et petits formats se côtoient et semblent surgir des profondeurs des mers ou des hauteurs des montagnes. La nature est inscrite jusque dans les pigments, qu’elle prépare, broie elle-même. — Nora Djabbari
Water and Light
From October 26 to December 2,
Galerie Dutko presents recent works by Franco-American artist Vicky Colombet. This third solo-show brings together around fifteen paintings created between 2019 and 2023 around the notion of apparition.
"ANTARCTICA-SHANSHUI" at ICICLE in PARIS
ICICLE Cultural Space, 35 avenue George V, 75008
March 15 – May 30, 2023
ICICLE’s Cultural Space, 35 avenue George V, Paris 75008, will welcome a spring season interweaving painting, music and literature, with the paintings of Vicky Colombet, the cello of Sonia Wieder-Atherton and the books of Chantal Thomas.
Conceived by Myriam Kryger, this series unfolds around Colombet’s “Antarctica-Shanshui” exhibition and the first iteration of a series of events entitled “Artistic Confidences”. Art historian Marianne Mathieu, and journalist Kathleen Evin, guide us on this journey through the arts, in the company of creator-explorers concerned with connecting continents and building bridges between shores.
“Artistic Confidences” events hosted by Kathleen Evin
With the visual artist Vicky Colombet, on Wednesday March 15, 6pm-7pm
With the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, on Tuesday April 4, 6:30-7:30 pm
With the writer Chantal Thomas, on Wednesday May 24, 6:30-7:30 pm
“In front of a canvas that hypnotizes us, listening to a musical phrase to which we abandon ourselves, closing a book that seemed to speak only to us, the mystery remains intact. The intimacy suddenly felt with the artist does not make the creative process any more intelligible. Where does this gesture, this note, this sentence that has reached our soul come from? From this necessarily awkward question that we ask ourselves, without daring to formulate it as it seems naive, what secret place can we try to graze by listening to them confide...? (Kathleen Evin)
FACE AU SOLEIL at THE MARMOTTAN MONET MUSEUM
FACE AU SOLEIL / FACING THE SUN
In 2022, the Musée Marmottan Monet, in collaboration with the Museum Barberini celebrates the 150th anniversary of, Impression, soleil levant [Impression, Sunrise] and pays tribute to it through the exhibition “Facing the Sun”, presented in Paris from 21 September 2022 to 29 January 2023 and in Potsdam, from 25 February to 11 June 2023 under the title “Sonne. Die Quelle des Lichts in der Kunst”.
With Albrecht Dürer, Luca Giordano, Pierre-Paul Rubens, Claude Gellée known as “Le Lorrain”, Joseph Vernet, Mallord William Turner, Gaspar David Friedrich, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, André Derain, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton, Laurits Tuxen, Edvard Munch, Otto Dix, Otto Freundlich, Sonia Delaunay, Wladimir Baranov-Rossiné, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Otto Piene, Gérard Fromanger, and Vicky Colombet.
Large Format at The Elkon Gallery
Large Format at The Elkon Gallery
Vicky Colombet, Friedel Dzubas, Mark Flood, Lluis Lleo, Roberto Matta, Matteo Montani, Spencer Sweeney, and John Wesley
Drawing from A to Z
Drawing from A to Z
December 1, 2021 - January 15, 2022
Vicky COLOMBET - Juliette-Andréa ELIE - Karen FARKAS - Tschang-Yeul KIM - Sol LEWITT - Elissa MARCHAL - Youssef NABIL - Laurent PERBOS - Keiji UEMATSU - Joel-Peter WITKIN
L'Ouvert/ The Opening / Vicky Colombet by Pierre Wat
Vicky Colombet did not wait to work at the Marmottan museum in order to save a place or, even better, a role for his work in her own. How not to engage with such a painter when the word “landscape” finds itself at the heart of one’s work? How, above all, when haunted, as she is, by this ongoing tragedy known as global warming, of which nature is both the target and the trace? How not to see in Claude Monet’s paintings the proof of a splendor that is now lost? It is not a question of imitating Monet. That would make no sense—neither pictorially, because this would be tantamount to being enslaved by a model, nor historically, because it would be like denying this loss before our eyes. It is a question of learning through Monet. To learn to paint not like him, not according to him, but rather with him, in order, in turn, to welcome, with the same openness, the world’s beauty, or what is left of it. Vicky Colombet’s Monet series, Water and Light and From the Floating World are manifestations of the quest for a common sensibility with this master of waterscapes[1]. Never, though, does she proceed by literally citing him, preferring to progress alongside the painter rather than to come to a standstill opposite him. Her most recent paintings, which give this relationship a new shape—less allusive than usual—allow us to understand what the Giverny painter’s art can bring her in terms of fecundity.
[1] The painter used the term paysages d’eau, or waterscapes, in the first exhibition of his water lilies at the gallery Durand-Ruel in 1900.