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
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Laureate of 2008 Bouvet-Ladubay Contemporary Art center
2007 J.Bastien Brussels (Belgium)
Galerie Artegalore Paris
2006 OGRESSE² Chapelle Saint Michel Avignon (catalogue text Damien Sausset)
2004 Manufacture des Oeillets Eric Danel – comme une ogresse – Ivry/Seine
Cabinet Architectes Anne Pujol-Olivier et Françoise Lefèvre - Avignon
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
2007 "Rencontres 29" – Centre d'Art Contemporain La VIGIE - Nîmes (France)
Biennale Issy 2007 - Issy les Moulineaux (France)
"Corpus Diem"- 1er Partcours d'Art Contemporain -Sables D'Olonne
"Un autre regard" - Villa Dutoit - Geneve (Suisse)
2006 Biennale Jeune création Bourges
Les Puits du désir - Commissariat Mohamed Rachdi
2004 Espace Saint-Louis, " L 'Automne des Transis ", commissariat Françoise Monnin Bar le-Duc, Meuse
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
1997 Galerie Area Alin Avila - "des couleurs pour l’été" - Paris
1996 Salon de la Jeune Création - Texte Françoise Monnin
1996 Artiste invitée, domaine du Haut Gléon - Durban
Projects
Futurs show
AVRIL 05, 2008 - JUNE 06, 2008
The Bouvet-Ladubay Contemporary Art Centre
Open all the days 10.00 until 12.30 a.m. and 2.00 until 5.30 p.m. www.bouvet-ladubay.fr
Collections
2000 Fondation Paul Ricard
Bibliography
2006 Theater painters and artistic collaboration on Le Tour d'Ecrou (Henri James) Cie Fraction
2005 Théater décors - Macbeth - Cie Fraction - création Jean François Matignon - Strasbourg
2004 France 5 - Ubik - Sujet réalisé par Aurélia Rouvier
2001 - 2004 Assistante de Julije Knifer
1998 Editions Yeo - Area - notaires associés - Texte Eric Mangion
1997 La Cinquième, film - l’art du fruit - 10’ - Catherine Terzieff
Amnesty International - Couverture du rapport annuel
1996 Edition Yeo - Area - mois d’émoi - Texte Anne Kerner
