Exhibition “MACTE ANIMO!”
by artist Caroline Delétoille with KONTEMPORAMA and PETRE HERMANN
Opening reception September 1, 17:00 to 21:00
Exhibition: September 1 to 6 at IESA arts&culture
The KONTEMPORAMA project and PETRE HERMANN, exhibition curator and Master 2 Contemporary Art Market student at IESA, present "MACTE ANIMO!", a painting and graphic exhibition by the artist Caroline Delétoille.
Her work documents ordinary and personal memories, while creating traces of memory that then allow her to tell stories and play between reality and fiction.
Macte Animo is a Latin phrase that invites the visitor to have courage. Courage to keep going despite everything, despite the perilous waters and the dangers of the waves of life.
Between archive images and painting, Caroline Delétoille navigates and takes us into her family history and that of strangers whose moments of life she stages and recomposes. The bright colors used in her paintings break with the monotony of period silver film or of a muted everyday life. They often combine to create atmospheres saturated with greens, yellows and blues.
Through a plastic exploration of the traces of memory, the artist questions memories, their narratives and their recreations. By layering her brushstrokes in undulating, embodied forms, she materializes on the canvas the delicate strands of memory woven into the meshes of our lives, and invites us to contemplate its ephemeral, complex and elusive nature.
Passing through landscapes bathed in bold hues to lively, intimate and memorial portraits, the exhibition presents several series that reflect the multiple nature of our own memories in the face of time that moves forward and erases them. This versatile artist composes the subject through media and techniques to create a captivating dialogue between the protagonists and their environment in an invitation to fully live in the present moment.
Macte Animo!
