TERRA BOTANICA
Paintings and drawings by Sylvie Peyneau
Until April 11, 2025
“The inner landscapes are no less vast than the worlds around us.”
Andrée Chédid
The OΔK Gallery and the Catholic Institute of Toulouse are offering a series of exhibitions on March 7
in Toulouse between Place Montoulieu and the Georges Baccrabère museum space entitled Terra Botanica
by Sylvie Peyneau.
Curators: Antoine Vignault (OΔK Gallery) and Pascale Cazales (ICT)
The OΔK Gallery Oneofakind and the Institut Catholique de Toulouse are pleased to present Terra Botanica, a unique exhibition around the latest plastic works of the artist Sylvie Peyneau, where nature becomes language, memory and metamorphosis… Between trace and presence.
Through this new series, the artist invites you on a sensory and immersive journey to the heart of reinvented landscapes, between abstraction and figuration. His works, inspired by wild gardens and the delicacy of ancient herbariums, plunge us into a world where painting captures the ephemeral, the permanence of the living and the imprint of time on matter. A pictorial garden in motion
Within the Catholic Institute, the artist composes an organic universe where the pictorial material seems to vibrate before our eyes. In successive layers, she works on transparency and density, evoking the texture of the foliage, the quivering of the grasses in the wind, the light filtered through the petals. Here, painting becomes a territory, a moving space where forms are born and dissolved, like a nature in perpetual mutation. An introspective look, where flowers and foliage become witnesses to a quest for light and spirituality.
For the OΔK gallery, his work becomes more figurative, rooted in a sensitive observation of flowers and flowers. Plants. The contours become clearer, the details more refined, offering an intimate dialogue with the fragility and strength of the plant world. As in a poetic herbarium, each flower becomes an imprint, a trace of a moment frozen in time, a witness to a nature that is both real and dreamed.
Through the play of textures and superimpositions, Sylvie Peyneau builds a garden of paintings, where each canvas is a piece of landscape to be explored with the eye. His work questions the relationship between man and nature, between memory and immediate sensation, between evanescence and rootedness.
An invitation to lose oneself and find oneself in a transfigured plant space, both rooted and moving, where painting brings out the memory of flowers and the whisper of the living.
A décor enriched with chairs, coffee tables and lighting by artists selected by Antoine Vignault and vintage collector’s furniture by Emmanuelle Vidal, an antique dealer specializing in modern design.
From March 7 to April 11, 2025, 2 PLACE MONTOULIEU, TOULOUSE
Wednesday to Saturday from 14.00 to 19.00 h or by appointment
and in the ICT museographic space, 31 RUE DE LA FONDERIE, TOULOUSE
Wednesday to Saturday from 15.00 to 19.00 h.
