MEMORIES

Original drawings by Corinne Tichadou – THE MEDITATIONS

EXTENSION UNTIL AUGUST 24, 2024

Corinne Tichadou is a French painter who lives and works in Béziers in the Hérault.
It was one summer in 2019 that she unearthed a batch of annals dating from 1920 in a flea market. Immediately, she was seduced and seduced by the old-fashioned texture and colours of the brochures, the delicacy of the typography, the content that described the political or economic life of the time, the theatrical programmes, the first advertisements… His imagination ran wild and thus the idea of the Meditations series was born. His daughter, the photographer Sonia Reveyaz, has been documenting this project since its inception by photographing and filming the artist during her work sessions. From this collaboration, the two artists wish to create a joint artistic project, between a mother and her daughter.

This work explores dazzling landscapes where the existing figures of the leaves can stand out, including mythological characters, allegorical scenes, angels and saints, circus or fantasy animals, wrestlers, mermaids, jars and vessels, flowers, Madonnas or nativities. Themes that are familiar in the artist’s work but which are manifested here in an instinctive and offbeat way, to show a singular and philosophical aesthetic landscape.

The color is contrasting, the line deliberately clumsy, but the composition remains dynamic and radical. In this process, Corinne Tichadou includes words, sentences, quotes that impact the image and participate in the creation of this universe that is at once poetic, dreamlike and humorous.
The characters and objects take them out of their context and are multiplied tenfold, respond to each other, interpose each other, creating new stories. All of these works combine the past and the present and read like a fugue, hence the importance of creating a book because it is indeed a fast, lively, interactive, timeless, universal reading that the artists wish to offer.

These images question our world, our society, our environment, our culture. They question our uncertainties, our fears, our struggles, our relationship to love or desire. In this sense, LES MEDITATIONS is an original, poetic project with an unavoidable cultural and universal scope.

This exhibition also allows you to see or revisit the lamps and furniture of Hoon Moreau and Nicolas Aubagnac, the ceramics of Béatriz Garrigo, the Waga totems of Aude Wagner and Lise Garrig, the functional sculptures of Yves & Benjamin Pagart and the porcelain sculptures of Dora Stanczel

A décor enriched with seats, coffee tables and vintage collectible lighting by Emmanuelle Vidal, Antique dealer specializing in design from the 50s to the 80s.

From June 13 to July 27, 2024, 2 PLACE MONTOULIEU, TOULOUSE – FRANCE
Wednesday to Saturday from 14.00 to 19.00 h or by appointment