The stir of things, the indistinct breath of the image, a veil of uncertainty is perhaps what imperceptibly connects the drawings of landscapes of sand from Frédéric Khodja, the evanescent forests painted by Vanessa Fanule (born in 1971, living in Paris), the textiles bathed in diluted painting by Charlotte Denamur and the ephemeral wall drawing of Christian Lhopital retracing the "trajectory of a dream".These are all Intranquilles images, between fiction and reality, reminiscences and imaginary, construction and accident.For the rest, each artist develops at the Bullukian Foundation its own universe, having, in the art center, a differentiated exhibition space.
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Pranks and surfaces
Christian LHOPITAL (born in 1953, living in Lyon) presents in particular a series of "fabulous drawings" dating from 2020, quite emblematic of his universe intertwining dreamlike, facetious humor, cinematographic or pop references, bestiary of childish stuffed animals, ghostly figures "thisseries is the story of the meeting of a rabbit and a mosquito ”confides, smiling, the artist.A narration at the Lewis Carroll, carried out in variations in gray, just like the wall drawing which he achieved, in a few days, on three sides of the foundation.
This trajectory of a dream consists of an impressive maelstrom of hectic lines connecting four characters and a ghost.We guess, in this graphic chaos, some volatile profiles, reliefs, mountain peaks."I started from a few sketches but I also let things happen by drawing.Transforming walls into drawing surfaces offers formidable freedom, and realization is like a kind of performance or dance ”.A plastic performance idea that Charlotte Denamur also shares (born in 1986, living in Paris) by bathing, manipulating textiles, large or small format, to obtain fields of "matted" colors that it resonates with theConfiguration of the exhibition site.
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Surfaces and catch
Known since the early 2000s for his drawings, Frédéric Khodja (born in 1964, living in Lyon) operates a discreet return to oil painting through two series of small formats: altitude notes and passageswhich are facing the entrance to the Bullukian Foundation.The first, made in the Italian mountains, is an attractive reverie and a series of plastic experiments around the idea of coastline, shore.The second explores both the idea of threshold and the idea of exhaustion of the same space and the same palette (of rose and blue).The notion of threshold refers to the whole work of Frédéric Khodja where we never really know where we are located, where we switch without shouting interiors in exterior, surface surfaces
Further on, in major drawings, the artist immerses us again among desert horizons, on islands, or at the edge of the sea.With, here and there, funny geometric patterns (rectangles, simplified panels) that Frédéric Khodja likes to qualify as screens as."Each drawing could be a kind of sequence plan or a deserted cinema set after the shooting," he says.Behind their immediately attractive appearance, these drawings fall under the mental landscape, a staging that plays trompe-l 'il, false horizons, images in the image we think we are wrapped in an "oceanic feeling"And suddenly, the decor slides, the pattern escapes, the incongruous arises and invites a completely different fiction or direction.Between the heart and lure, everything can switch.
Charlotte Denamur, Vanessa Fanuele, Frédéric Khodja, Christian Lhopital, Oniric Landcapes
À la Fondation Bullukian jusqu'au 16 juillet
Oniric Landcapes
Exposition collective avec Charlotte Denamur, Vanessa Fanuele, Frédéric Khodja et Christian Lhopital
Fondation Bullukian 26 place Bellecour Lyon 2e
Jusqu'au 16 juillet 2022, du mar au ven de 14h à 18h et le sam de 10h à 12h et de 14h à 18h
