Amélie Bertrand will show how her paintings are intended to be a relentless presence of forms, calling for a slow, meticulous and determined response to the process of construction and elaboration. She will explain how a multitude of iconographic strata and layers combine on the computer screen, giving way to the definitive sketch, inkjet print, nuancier of the painting in progress, the challenge being to create a single layer of paint on the surface of the canvas.
Amélie Bertrand was born in Cannes la Bocca in 1985. She lives and works in Paris, where she is represented by Galerie Semiose. Her work has been exhibited in France and Germany, and is included in the collections of the Fonds national d'Art contemporain and the Fonds régional d'Art contemporain du Limousin. Her highly constructed, colorful paintings unfold a geometric yet dreamlike universe, first conceived in Photoshop, where false flat tints and architectural motifs coexist with great attention to volume.
