A new art gallery in Le Mans!
12 permanent artists: Willy Bihoreau, Nicolas Boutruche, Ulrike Bolenz, Olivier de Cayron, Maria Deulina Nicolas Drouet, Max Foggea, Remy Le Guillerm, Marie Christine Jaladon, Eric Lesigne, Marie-Laure Mallet Melchior, Raoul Scipioni-Guenancia.
.....Et 20 centuries of paintings brought back to life by Daniel Lagoutte.
What do all the artists - visual artists, photographers, digital artists, sculptors - who are members or supporters of the Mixta-Médiart project have in common?
Undoubtedly, each with his or her own sensitivity, subjectivity and intimate perception, is willing to confront reality. And in so doing, rehabilitating, revisiting the figurative. Not, of course, in a return to the reproduction or imitation of the real, which would constitute both historical and artistic nonsense.
But rather in very personal and contemporary approaches, of transfiguration, trituration, mixing of "things seen". It's a back-and-forth between the 'world' as we see it and new representations of an inner world and an assumed subjectivity. An oscillation between realism and interpretation (in the borrowing and imprinting of classical fields of the visible: the body, objects, the urban landscape or nature...), between seeing and showing, between impression and expression, the revealed image and its polarisations...
These orientations are at the origin of the Transfiguring pictorial movement founded in Paris in 2014 and of Transfiguring Optico-narratif, a book published by Art-Scenes in December 2017 and in which Marie-Laure Mallet-Melchior and Olivier de Cayron - founders of the Mixta-Médiart association - are stakeholders. They use photography as a medium to transform, distort and mirror a reality that suddenly reveals its strangeness, its secret layers, its unexpected superimpositions, its dreamlike dimensions...
A new art gallery in Le Mans!