| Marion
Franzini is a young artist whose painting is part of the young
contemporary scene. Through her work she questions the status of the painting, the picture. Her painting is as mental as it is sensory. There is in this work, an intensity and freshness of the quality of the colour which illuminates her paintings. The presence of the canvas is just as much a fundamental element of the work as is the paint. Sometimes this canvas is left unpainted in places, it opens up a space and creates a quality of discontinuity. This empty space, which articulates the diptychs too, is like an interval, a punctuation, a comma. It is what is between and what gives sense: the space of foreign territories, of separation between different worlds, different times, and their interrelationship. There is as well this strange, uncertain form - kind of little suspended body, of unstable significance, my monster 1, almost invisible, perhaps, and which slips from one work to another, makes and unmaking, layering, decentering and leaving its mark. A fragile world takes shape where all idea of unity disappears, there is no beginning and no end, ageless, without place, timeless, nameless. Questions subsist, Where now? When now ? Who now? 2 A trip in time and space where the gaze abstracts itself. Isn’t it rather about the place where we finish vanishing ? 2 1 By Marion Franzini 2 Samuel Beckett, L’innommable (The Unnamable), Paris, Les éditions de Minuit, 1953. Text by Pascale Guillon - Rewrited by Peter Briggs |