The CultureInside art gallery at 8 Rue Notre Dame in Luxembourg city centre is to host a Painting exhibition by the artist Agnès BOULLOCHE entitled "Univers fantasque et fantastique" from 12 January until 4 March 2017, with the Vernissage scheduled for Thursday 12 January at 18:30.
As far as she can remember, Agnès has always been the close friend of a population of fabulous beasts, countless chimeras, gorgons and genies. This painting lady lives in a fantastic realm haunted by humanimal creatures dancing, riding on each other and spinning their horned feet through the antique chessboards of extraordinary stone-paved gardens. She is back from the beyond, and dreams with her eyes wide open. You won't believe it till you see it.
Agnès Boulloche paints with oil on wood panels. She uses an old technique named "glazes". A glaze is a thin transparent or semi-transparent layer on a painting which modifies the appearance of the underlying paint layer. Glazes can change the chroma, value, hue and texture of a surface. Glazes consist of a great amount of binding medium in relation to a very small amount of pigment. This technique merges the fineness of the drawing and the brightness of the tones. Agnès also creates her own pigments, mediums and varnishes so that she can have the perfect desired result.
She uses panels in French format. Usually, portraits are executed on a vertical panel called "Figure" or F, landscapes on a horizontal format called "Paysage" or P, and the seascapes on a horizontal and panoramic format, called "Marine" or M. Each dimension corresponds to a number from 0 to 120, called "point". So we speak of a 6F, 10P or 25M painting ... without need to give the metric dimensions to the color merchant, gallery or framer.
Biography: Agnès Boulloche is a contemporary French artist born in Paris. She spent her early childhood in Morocco where she grew up surrounded by legends. Since this time she shows a deep taste for imaginary creatures, jinns, the unusual, the strange and travels. Agnes currently resides between Paris and the Reunion Isle.
For details, see www.cultureinside-gallery.com
