Haim Chanin Fine Arts Presents

Vicky Colombet’s New Works

 

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HAIM CHANIN FINE ARTS PRESENTS VICKY COLOMBET

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NEW YORK CITY — Haim Chanin Fine Arts is showing the landscape paintings of French artist Vicky Colombet in “Difference and Repetition,” on view through November 10. The solo exhibition features large abstract oil, alkyd and wax on canvas and works on paper.

For the past two decades, Colombet has been exploring landscape in its representation and possibilities. Fluid shapes, folds and tensions defining lights and shadows, time and physical forces, at once repetitive and always different, characterize the pieces presented in this new exhibition. Darker and more dramatic in their composition and color, these new works mark an important development in Colombet’s career.

Drawing from old masters’ methods and a long and continued interest in physics, Colombet’s technique allows her to approach landscape and painting both as a minimalist, and as a land artist.

Colombet starts each painting by composing an invisible topography, she forms folds with the prepared fabric laid on the floor. The repetitive white markings she applies on its surface represent as many patterns and “accidents” that will afterward influence and define the deposition of the pigments through a sedimentary process. Applied with a very fluid medium the pigments will reveal, as in a photographic process, the first lines of the cartography she has prepared.

She adjusts the chemical mix of oil and alkyd, and by selecting each pigment for its specific density, grain and weight, she applies layer after layer until the canvas-landscape gradually reveals itself, in all its ambiguity of technique, scale and point of view.

Born in Paris, Colombet lives and works in New York City. She has had numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States, and her first solo exhibition in New York City at Haim Chanin Fine Arts in 2004. In 2001, she received an award from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Her work is represented in major public and private collections around the world. Colombet is currently working on a monumental commission for Catalan architect Enric Ruiz Geli’s ambitious project “Villanurbs.”

Haim Chanin Fine Arts is at 121 West 19th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

For information, 646-230-7200 or www.haimchanin.com.