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Observing a painting by Guacolda can only challenge us.

Between diverted photography, weaving, reverse embroidery, all the humanity of the artist shines through.

Introduced to engraving at a very young age thanks to her artist mother, Guacolda followed a training course at the Beaux-Arts where she was able to perfect and develop her knowledge in lithography, painting and engraving.

After a degree in plastic arts in Saint Denis, she took flight.

Her favorite subjects: nature, human beings, women.

The latter, never put forward abruptly, is both hidden but very present.

Guacolda lets us glimpse all the femininity, the interiority, the humanity of this being who hides.

Nature, another subject for reflection, is also very present. The toile de Jouy, a source of inspiration, can be used as is in the background or cut into small checkerboards to better suggest it.

Passionate about art history, her work contains rich references to many paintings.

In "Panorama" we can find a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, a painting by Ingres or even one by an unknown author representing Gabrielle d'Estrée and one of her sisters, the child with the Fifre by Edouard Manet or even Saint Sebastian ...

Her other subjects are all the loved ones who surround her. Her husband, her daughters, her friends sometimes ... always close ones. To better capture them?

There are many media that she exploits and diverts.

Photography is used a lot by Guacolda. The lens allows him to capture what his eye and sensitivity capture at a given moment.

Reproduced and enlarged on canvas or photo paper, the artist reworks them using weaving, embroidery, painting, screen printing, etc.

The use of bubble wrap, a recent technique that had to be mastered, allows him to make his subjects transparent.

Always searching, Guacolda has not finished surprising us. All his paintings appeal to our unconscious, to our artistic references or not, to our sensitivity.

In the manner of the "Mona Lisa", these portraits of men or women seem to follow us with their eyes.

Is it us who look at them or they who scrutinize and observe us?

Ne manquez pas la prochaine exposition collective à laquelle participe Guacolda

L'Aiguillage,
galerie d'arts visuels aux Frigos de Paris
du 23 Novembre au 30 Décembre 2024
sur le théme LA BELLE ET LA BETE

Galerie photos:

1- SIESTE ottilie neg -tissage-sur-photographie-43x53cm

2- Sirene-2024-tissage-sur-photographie-43x53cm

3- Guacolda-tissage-photographique-portrait-de-melusine

4- Guacolda-autoportrait-noir-et-blanc-tissage-photographique
5- Arbre-2023-fil-sur-papier-bulle-63x83cm
6- Guacolda_tissage_jardin bleu
7- Tissage Mélusine