« Learn to think in colour and you will see the world differently ! »
« It is as well to understand the significance of colours, as they condition our behaviour and our manner of thinking, but, once one is aware of their attributions, it can be put to the back of one’s mind and we can then contemplate colours as connaisseurs and experience them with spontaneity and a certain innocence. » Michel Pastoureau

The role played by colour is constantly evolving in LUME’s work. Strongly influenced by the conception of chromatics as defined by Michel Pastoureau, LUME aims to transmit in her canvases the importance of colour in our perceptions, behaviour and in our emotions.
From this point of departure, the artist favours colour over and above form upon canvases born of the desire to transmit the fruits of her inner contemplation without resort to words or images, and forming successive layers, each a silent witness laid on the wilderness of a monochrome backcloth.
The gesture of seeking to visually transmit instantaneously a thought, an emotion, to crystallise a fragment of life by a shape, a gesture or a colour (or an association of colours) becomes a reassuring waymark in our desire to exist.
« Painting, and colour specifically, guides me in my resolve to discover my emotions, my fears and my doubts, helps me learn to manage and to live with them for the time it takes to complete a canvas : it permits me to feel FREE. »

MY ARTISTIC INFLUENCES

The fact of my living seven years in Barcelona undeniably underscores Tapiès as a major influence in my exploration of matter and application of sundry materials, but far from being the only one, the intense blacks of Millares‘s mixed media canvases, Saura and others from the ‘El Paso’ Movement are and have been important to me. Following my mother’s illness and premature death, colour began to play an important rôle in my paintings.
Beginning with black, powerful and majestic, an expiatory and appeasing colour capable of absorbing my suffering and incomprehension at this grossinjustice, expressed in frozen voluminous forms, as protuberances seeking to escape from the canvasses’surface, contrasting, one could say, almost agressively with the foundation colour.
Little by little, and day by day, colours and movement crept in more and more as in a soothing therapy, as if to state that, without invalidating each stage of my rehabilitation, to be able to claim that once more one can step forwards, that this terrible suffering is quantifiable and that life can go on.
At that point, my interest settled on artists such as Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Cy Twombly, Degottex, Motherwell, Basquiat, Fabienne Verdier and many others, as well as on Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy, where purety, silence, emptiness and amplitude conjoin… which is my current quest to transmit onto canvas.

MY HANDWRITING or CALLIGRAPHY

This is an imaginary or unconscious calligraphy which does not correspond to any existing language (so gaining in universality) which manifests itself as a kind of repetitive and liberating gesture. It is the final touch I put to my canvases. It serves to give a certain balance to, and an aid to « reading » the composition, and is purely graphic, inspired by the Japanese and Chinese art of calligraphy. The viewer sees or attempts to recognise words, names (their own sometimes !), and ponders over this inherent desire to strive to identify something real or figurative within abstraction.

My signature
I have always signed on the reverse of each canvas, as what appears on the front already represents me sufficiently. Having already invested my entire soul and emotions, my most intimate confessions, I have no wish to add anything so narcissistic and individual as my name. I would rather the viewer take total possession of the canvas and be absorbed in colour.

The medium
Since graduating from Art Schools (Toulon in 1999 and Barcelona in 2001), I have always sought to work with unconventional and heterogenous or diverse materials. Principally influenced by the movements « Support/Surface » and « El Paso« , my overlaying in volume came from 2001 onwards in Barcelona through my interest in artists such as Tapies, Cy Twombly and many others, among whom Millares stands out, with his canvas sewn onto canvas and his own use of a kind of imaginary calligraphy. In 2005, on learning of my mother’s illness, I commenced a lengthy study based on the notion of combat, of duality…and the volume grew in direct relation to the size of her tumour. It can be seen in my works that are sewn, stretched, torn, knotted, abused, but then, gradually the voluminous form softened to make place for colour, for healing. I use oxydisation to represent the passage of time, a living, evolving element on my canvas, as if haphazard and beyond ones’ control.

Biographie

Née à Bandol, France, en 1979
Étudie 3 ans à l’École supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulon – DNAP.
En 2001 s’installe à Barcelone pour finir ses études à « L’Universitat de belles arts de Barcelona » jusqu’en 2008, où elle découvrira son amour pour la couleur.

EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES

• 2013 – 2015 : Couleurs et Abstraction, en partenariat avec Le Castellaras 461 chemin de Peymeyan 83440 Fayence
• 2014 : Domaine de La Roque – La Cadière d’Azur
• 2013 : Pullmann Cannes Mandelieu, 18 septembre – 31 décembre 2013
• 2013 : Novotel Monte Carlo, 22 février – 14 juin 2013
• 2013 : Ivan Chevillotte & Beddington Fine Art, Munich, 17 novembre 2012 – 1er mai 2013
• 2013 : Centre Médical Tassy, Tourettes Var 83440, 31 janvier- 31 mars 2013
• 2012 : La Brasserie Bertin, Draguignan, 14 septembre – 1er décembre 2012
en collaboration avec Beddington Fine Art Bargemon
• 2012 : Centre Culturel de Bandol, rue Gabriel Péri, 83151 Bandol, 16 au 28 octobre 2012
• 2012 : Ivan Chevilotte Kaiserstraße 23 | 80801 Munich, Allemagne, 18 novembre 2012 à mai 2013
en collaboration avec Beddington Fine Art Bargemon
• 2011 : « La pensée en couleurs » 30 août au 28 octobre 2011, sur rendez-vous
Club Premier Barclays de Grasse – en partenariat avec Beddington Fine Art Bargemon
225 route de Cannes 06130 Grasse – France
• 2011 : « Apprenez à penser en couleurs et vous verrez le monde autrement » 23 mars au 14 mai 2011
Beddington Fine Art Bargemon – France
• 2008 : Hôtel Grand Marina *****GL – Barcelona – Espagne
• 2007 : Galeria Montsequi – Madrid – Espagne
• 2006 : Galeria Palau de la Mercé – Girona – Espagne
• 2005 : Galeria Sumbaya – Roma – Italie

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES ET PERMANENTES

• 2013 : Art Monaco, avril 2013
• 2012 : Beddington Fine Art Seillans, La Magnanerie de Seillans, 13 octobre 2011 – 31 janvier 2012
• 2011 : Art deco aix – « SALT & PEPPER » – Aix en Provence – France
• 2011 : MDBA – Marseille – France
• 2011 : Galerie Beddington – Bargemon – France
• 2010 : Galerie Beddington – Bargemon – France
• 2010 : Galerie Patrick Pierre – Cassis – France
• 2009 : Galerie Beddington – Bargemon – France
• 2008 : Galerie de Medicis – Paris – France
• 2008 : Alchemilla Mate – Roma – Italie
• 2008 : Galerie Pablo Ruiz – Malaga – Espagne
• 2007 : Galerie Montsequi – Madrid – Espagne
• 2007 : Galerie Palau de la Mercé – Girona – Espagne
• 2006 : Galerie de Medicis – Paris – France
• 2006 : Galerie Palau de la Mercé – Girona – Espagne
• 2006 : Galerie Courant d’Art – Mulhouse – France
• 2006 : Galerie Anna Tschopp – Marseille – France
• 2005 : Galerie Courant d’Art – Mulhouse – France
• 2005 : Galerie Betemps – Bons-en-Chablais – France
• 2004 : Galerie Courant d’Art – Mulhouse – France
• 2003 : Galerie Sumbaya – Roma – Italie
• 2002 : Galerie Gravera – La Garde – France
• 2001 : Galerie des Riaux – Toulon – France

FOIRES

• 2008 : ART INNSBRUCK – Innsbruck – Autriche
• 2007 : ST’ART 2007 – Estrasburgo – France
• 2007 : IBERARTE – Zaragoza – Espagne
• 2007 : MARB’ART – Marbella – Espagne

Beddington Fine Art of Bargemon are delighted to announce that they are expanding their activities and, from the 8th of october the Magnanerie de Seillans will host a series of exceptional Contemporary Art Exhibitions of works by emerging and established artists.

This magnificent and beautifully restored listed building, a one-time silkworm factory, set close to the centre of Seillans, renowned not only for its beauty and as the home of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning but also today as a thriving centre for cultural events, makes its gallery space the ideal setting for the display of larger format paintings and sculptures.

In partnership with the Magnanerie’s owner, Pierre Dufrasne, and the contemporary art collector and consultant, Roland Daumesnil, Beddington Fine Art launch this new initiative with a show entitled ‘Signes’ combining the works of two outstanding artists.

Lume, graduate of the Beaux Arts in Toulon and of the University of Barcelona, engages heart and soul in her abstract works on canvas, outstanding for their balance of colour and substance and the astonishing honesty with which she expresses her innermost hopes and fears. Her works are both forceful and reflective, visually appealing, then further empowered by their hidden content.

Her admiration for and delicate use of oriental calligraphy cross-references closely with the two- and three-dimensional creations in steel and wood of Laurent–Emmanuel Briffaud, another outstanding young artist, whose passion for the structure and symbolism of trees was born from a belief in the sacredness of Nature, from his studies in firstly, architecture, then art conservation, Italian Renaissance Art and, lastly, a lengthy apprenticeship and mastery of the art of marquetry.

‘Tree Signes’ remains a constant theme in his work, embracing wood découpages, steel sculptures and Japanese-style ‘empreintes’ on paper, underlining his appreciation of calligraphic expression and symbolism. Throughout his œuvre, the elevated structure of the tree in winter is transformed by his hands into an elementalfigurativerepresentation, an eulogy to the sanctity of Nature and, foremost, an unspoken work of poetry.

Beddington Fine Art Bargemon étend ses activités et à partir du 8 Octobre 2011 la Magnanerie de Seillans abritera une série d’Expositions exceptionelles d’Art Contemporain par des Artistes émergents et de renommée internationale.

Ce bâtiment classé et admirablement bien restauré, une ancienne Magnanerie près du centre de Seillans, un des plus beaux villages perchés de France, ayant accueilli Max Ernst et Dorothea Tanning, et hôte d’évènements culturels de qualité, offre un espace galerie de m², lieu idéal pour exposer des peintures et des sculptures de grand format.

En partenariat avec le propriétaire de la Magnanerie Pierre Dufrasne et le collectionneur d’art contemporain Roland Daumesnil, Michèle et Guy Beddington ouvrent cette nouvelle initiative avec l’exposition « Signes » qui combine les jeunes talents de deux artistes remarquables !

Lume, diplomée des Beaux Arts de Toulon et de l’Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelone, s’engage corps et âme dans l’abstraction avec des toiles délicatement équilibrées en couleur et en substance exprimant avec une touchante honnêteté ses espoirs et ses peurs les plus intimes. Ses œuvres sont puissantes et réfléchies, visuellement imposantes avec en plus, le pouvoir de leur contenu caché.

Son admiration pour la calligraphie orientale s’unit étroitement avec les sculptures en acier et en bois à deux ou trois dimensions de Laurent- Emmanuel Briffaud, autre jeune artiste remarquable dont la passion pour la structure et le symbolisme des arbres est née d’une croyance dans le sacré de la nature depuis ses études d’architecture d’abord, de restauration et de conservation d’objets art, de l’étude de la marqueterie et de la peinture italienne.

Les « Arbres Signes » demeurent une constante dans son travail, embrassant des découpages en bois, des sculptures en acier et des empreintes sur papier de style oriental, soulignant son appréciation de l’expression calligraphique et du symbolisme. À travers son œuvre, la structure dépouillée de l’arbre en hiver est transformée de ses mains en une représentation figurative élémentaire, un éloge d’une nature sacrée où la poésie demeure omniprésente.