To start the year off right, the MJC Center André Malraux presents the works of Véronique Rio and her Aquatic Nature exhibition from January 7 to 23.
Born in Paris in 1965, Véronique Rio is a painter who works in Caux. She mainly relies on two techniques: oil painting which she explores in the studio during the winter period and inks and acrylics used outside during temperate periods. His paintings suggest a melee of worlds, a cosmogony in the process of genesis, a movement put in tension or else arouse a form of appeasement and tranquility.
Teaching of visual arts
“I have always practiced drawing and painting. I mainly use canvas, but wood and paper support interest me a lot. I have also trained in the Aperto workshop for over 20 years. I have made several interventions on classical and contemporary painters and have been teaching visual arts for several years”explains Véronique Rio. Holder of a master’s degree in the history of arts on the sculptor Jules Félix Coutan carried out with Anne Pingeot, curator of the Musée d’Orsay, she worked for a time with auctioneers at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris.
Various inspirations
“These experiences have enriched me, but I am especially comfortable in artistic creation. Many artists touch me: Vermeer, Turner, Géricault, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Van Dongen, Richter… But also the work by Romain Ventura, David Bioulès, Thomas Verny and Abdelkader Benchamma My paintings are most often on the floor or on a table. I reserve the almost white frames and then sometimes carry out my experiments. painting, a photo, a travel story will be triggers”she continues.
She uses a lot of colors from the chromatic range for the oils. Through her art, she wishes to convey an emotion, “that of transformation, even transfiguration”.
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