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Imperfect Circles at the Art-Port Corner of Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport

by Sylvie Renault | 12 Jul 2013 | Exhibitions, News

IMPERFECT CIRCLES Concentric Marks by Sylvie Renault OLBIA COSTA SMERALDA AIRPORT - A R T - P O R T CORNER PRESS RELEASE OLBIA, 13 July 2013 – Geasar presents at the Art-Port Corner of Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport the 25th contemporary art exhibition, featuring a solo show by artist Sylvie Renault. In her work, the artist has explored the concept of perfection in imperfection and, through seven works displayed on the wall of Karafood, distills an investigation into the concentric mark, which she emphasizes with layers of color, filling the voids and giving them new form. Renault lives and works in Rome and has chosen to exhibit in Sardinia as well the work already shown in galleries in Rome and New York. But this artist’s creativity does not end with painting: Renault also pursues an intensive parallel practice in planning and design, always connected to installations and communication. Inspired by a deep sensitivity to social changes, to the flaws of human complexity and to the emotional turmoil that follows, she is skilled at creating an effect of movement on canvas, including in her pictorial narrative. The solo exhibition in Olbia embodies a return to imperfection, even in the physical arrangement of the display: the paintings are positioned irregularly precisely to emphasize the performative experience that the artist cannot contain, finding in every intervention and situation an opportunity to express complete emotional and artistic involvement. Along the edges of her unframed works, she writes phrases taken from the songs she listens to while creating them, which symbolically frame the work, emphasizing its strong conceptual foundation.

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Imperfect Circles at Coronari Art Gallery 111 - from 17 to 25 November 2012

by Sylvie Renault | 13 Nov 2012 | Exhibitions, News

On Saturday 17 November, “La Parola al Colore” opens at Coronari 111 ArtGallery in Rome, at Via dei Coronari, 111. Curated by Beppe Palomba for the Accademia della Bussola, the exhibition features 16 artists engaging with the theme of colour, from the pared-down rigour of black and white to the most vibrant chromatic expression, pouring the entire spectrum of the palette into their works to perform, once again, the miracle of Art. The works thus range from photographic images to Digital Art, from oil paintings to mixed-media techniques, by artists such as Domenico Aquilino, Valeria Ballestrazzi, Elena Binder, Raffaela Boffelli, Adolfo Candreva, Germana Di Paolo, Marisa Gaddi, Elettra La Marca, Lamberto Melina, Sylvie Renault, Patrizia Rubicondi, Chiara Scala, Egidio Scardamaglia, Daniele Stefano, Valerio Tirapani, and Marcello Ursomando, all engaging with the world of Colour. Figurative and informal works, carefully selected to present the various ways of expressing sensibilities and techniques to give “Colour a voice”. The exhibition will remain open from 11:30 to 13:30 and from 15:30 to 19:00 every day except Sunday and Monday morning until 25 November. Vernissage on Saturday 17 November at 17:30.

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Imperfect Circles at Defrag_ Rome - 14/04/2012

Imperfect Circles at Defrag_ Rome - 14/04/2012

by Sylvie Renault | 5 Apr 2012 | Exhibitions

On Saturday 14 April at 22.30, DEFRAG (Via delle Isole Curzolane 75, Rome) will host "IMPERFECT CIRCLES ", an exhibition of paintings by Sylvie Renault . An artist of Imperfect Circles, an imperfect painter, an imperfect woman, Sylvie Renault has chosen the most uncompromising of all techniques, not to pursue its perfection, but to highlight its flaws. As in life, mistakes on her canvases are not erased, disguised or emphasized; they are simply accepted, and through that acceptance they become a foundational value of the work, just as they do in life itself. Adding a further touch of "artistic imperfection" to the evening will be singer-songwriter, or as he "hates" to call himself, "singer-actor-songwriter" Emiliano Ottaviani , the event's Music Special Guest. Info: DEFRAG Via delle Isole Curzolane 75 Rome 3200486439 - info@associazionedefrag.net

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Review by Giuseppe Palomba

by Sylvie Renault | 28 Mar 2012 | Reviewes, Painting, Exhibitions

Giving the Artist the floor allows us to delve into deep impulses and motivations, idiosyncrasies and passions. Understanding what underlies the creation of a work can be illuminating, and explaining a project makes it fully intelligible. In the case of Sylvie Renault's works, it adds intellectual pleasure to the instinctive pleasure of pure aesthetic appreciation, already satisfied by the undeniable fascination exerted by lines and colors, composition and chromatic texture. These works lead us into total immersion in a world of light and forms that unfold into labyrinths to be explored. Beppe Paolomba

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PIU’ FALSO DEL VERO review by Maria Rosaria Fantin

PIU’ FALSO DEL VERO review by Maria Rosaria Fantin

by Sylvie Renault | 16 Mar 2012 | Reviewes, Painting, Exhibitions

PIU’ FALSO DEL VERO EXHIBITION Castel Nuovo, Sala Carlo V. Naples 07/03/2012-09/04/2012 SYLVIE RENAULT In the captivating setting of the Maschio Angioino, steeped in historical references, the exhibition “Più falso del vero” will take place from March 7 to April 9, 2012. Built around the concept of exploring the perception of reality and how Art alters that very perception, ultimately falsifying reality itself, this exhibition will give space and visibility to various artists, unfolding in two exhibition formats: solo shows and a group show; in the latter, we will have the opportunity to see the works of Sylvie Renault. Two canvases serve as bridgeheads into the artist's vision: Le porte del sogno and ζ Ret . With their powerful visual and, above all, emotional impact, these images—veritable apparitions, sustained by vibrant, rich colors—encourage introspection, a search for the self. Drawn into the filled spaces and the voids, our gaze glides, losing itself in countless transformations: folds of the soul, shifting changes of being. Unknown galaxies open up before us, Argonauts lost in the constant pursuit of our missions, sidereal spaces created around a single coherent form: the circle, the sphere, used by nature as an example of perfection and by the artist as the signature of a possible imperfection: a construction useful for exploring emotional infinity, rich in tessellations of plane and space, lost in interconnected geometries that evolve into different forms, yet can always be traced back to their source; like DNA, common to all forms of life yet generating an incalculable diversity. What we encounter is not so much a rational use of geometry with an Escher-like flavor as the evolving repetition of aniconic decoration, itself filled with the anguished questioning that leads human beings to probe the depths of their sensations. By filling the entire surface with graphic marks, the artist communicates the totality of the emotion felt and expressed, the driving force of an unstoppable mechanism, volcanic in its explosive energy and equally overwhelming; a horror vacui, an obsessive filling of space: an all-encompassing experience that leads us to the revelation of new expanses, both mental and physical. Nothing could prevent the transposition of these powerful marks onto a wall or onto an even more complex and articulated surface, a new Galla Placidia, a new Hagia Sophia transformed, brought into the present as a planetarium of emotions. Works like magnifying glasses, reflections of the soul, imperfect

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Imperfect Circles at the Maschio Angioino in Naples for "Più falso del vero"

by Sylvie Renault | 10 Mar 2012 | Exhibitions, Press Roundup

In the prestigious setting of the Maschio Angioino in Naples, as part of the group exhibition "Più falso del vero", Imperfect Circles will exhibit two of the project's most significant canvases from March 17 to 30, 2012: " Le porte del sogno " and "ζ Ret ". Opening reception Saturday, March 17 at 5 p.m., free admission by invitation. Anyone interested can send their first and last name using the form on the Contact page.

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