In Luxembourg: Marie transforms gold into Art

Leaves, petals and buds. Curves that outline a plant world. That of Marie De Decker. With gold as a hyphen.

Having lived in Luxembourg for thirteen years, the photographer by trade and artist by nature, is exhibiting her works with sixteen other creators from Luxembourg and the Greater Region, from Thursday until December 1, at the Subtile gallery in Belair. Designed by Catherine Lebrun, in parallel with Luxembourg Art Week, the exhibition brings together artists and designers on the theme of still lifes.

“When I started, I wanted to restore value to my photo prints. Get away from the idea that an image only has a virtual and ephemeral existence, especially in the digital age,” says the artist, who turned to gold, a “precious and durable” material. . Trained in its use in a workshop in Alsace, the Paris native, of Flemish and Fulani origins, invented her own technique for affixing pure gold to her photos and offering them “eternity”.

Then, she “stepped out of the box”, creating boxes to promote “the unique object, which will be passed down from generation to generation” and sculptures. “I play with shapes and types of gold. I work with 27 different shades. From 24 carats to six carats, with pink, yellow, red and green gold. With this metal, from a factory in Germany, she obtains “a palette of extraordinary shades and manages to treat gold as if it were a pigment”. A box set takes him one and a half to two months of work and other works up to five to six months.

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