“
P
icasso
said: art is a wound that becomes light”,
states Fabienne Verdier.
He said many other things: his hand galloped at the speed of his brilliant twirls.
With Fabienne Verdier, only the lines twirl.
Thought has long been strained in a quest for the absolute.
The artist began it as a young student at the Beaux-Arts by convincing Chinese painters who had survived the Cultural Revolution to pass on their knowledge to her.
And her experience is still rooted in this research that she recounted in her fascinating testimony
Passagère du silence
(Albin Michel).
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She always digs it a little deeper.
First by looking for the dynamism of the line in the American minimalists and expressionists, then by studying the energy contained in the immobility of the characters represented by the Flemish primitives.
Echoing these paintings, she designed her own, with one color twisting on the flat tint of another.
The meeting with the master glassmaker…
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