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Balls and Tunnels
1996
Valérie Favre
Painting
175 x 125 cm
Beginning in 1995, eachpainting is produced with the help of a bathtub in order to invite chance intothe distribution of the colors on the canvas. This series provides a means for herto obtain a certain mise en abyme, a means of putting all of her otherfigurative paintings, which are composed of multiple decisions, intoperspective. In « Balls and Tunnels », decision-making is reduced to the minimum: thechoice of the format and the dominant color. It is practically a heap of colorthat operates on its own. There exists a certainrelationship to a series of abstrat paintings by Gérard Ritcher that she saw inParis in 1992. They incited her to « also » make abstract paintings, howevershe reduced the number to one per year, and this until the year of my death.
Valérie has taught painting at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2006, and is one of the first female artists to hold a painting professorship at the University. She has spent many years developing a pictorial, narrative work, rich in references from literature, theatre and art, in which the medium of painting becomes a means to tell stories.
Whether she is revisiting Delacroix or Rembrandt, or telling the story of Macbeth or Little Red Riding Hood, Valérie’s work uses as many different techniques as there are subjects. And all in complete freedom, which enables her to flit joyfully from a work one may describe as narrative, to more abstract canvasses in which a conceptual approach is so important. This is reflected in
the series of “Balls and Tunnels”, which started in 1996, and the more recent “Fragments”.
Artwork of
Valérie Favre
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