“GERMINATE…” of the artist JULIE ALEGRE

Curated by Conchi Alvarez

“Germinate …” is the second solo exhibition at Stoa of the French artist Julie Alegre. The first one, “… From the Femininity”, opened on 1 February 2008, in which we discovered a genuine, authentic, deep in her apparent simplicity and, above all, very original artist. In these almost four years, the artist has made an even greater insight than in the preceding work, which translates into a profound syncretism, more abstraction, more and more complex conceptualization in these 20 inks on paper and a clay sculpture of our show. In many of the works of art there is a schematic triumph of the works, dominated with plain and vivid colours, a result of a synthetic Cubist disintegration. The resulting tesseras, juxtaposed beauty   in apparent disorder, remind us of the compositions of Byzantine mosaics and background of Klimt’s works of art.

The lack or absence of an atmosphere is significant, proliferating closed compositions in which she has renounced to the air environment in favour of the water, fetal par excellence. Hence the use of water-based ink and gouache remains in some works as the theme of motherhood is recurrent in many of the titles, specified explicitly in the conception and gestation. An issue that goes beyond the biological motherhood to dive to the very essence of the “artistic creation” though, is there such a thing?, Has any artist ever has done “ex novo” their work?, Is not there always a base information, even a “totum revolutum” inside the artist on which s/he builds with more or less originality his work? Perhaps this is why we must speak of an artistic germination process, hence the name of this exhibition, “Sprout”, because it is an exercise of assimilation between artistic creation and biological conception and gestation. In Julie, this exercise has an expansive nature of a continuous and permanent sprout, grow, develop … Where?, Clearly in the medinas, the habitat where Julie reproduces the germination, synonymous with paradise, the perfect setting for dreams, memories, desires of this subjective work par excellence. You can set a clear parallel between Julie and Van Gogh: as essential as it was for Van Gogh Japanese, it is for Julie Medina. Like Van Gogh travelled South, to France, to find his Japan, Julie travels inside herself to find her medina. The concomitants between Julie and Van Gogh do not stop there: the common worship of the colour as well as the flatness of it; concern for the relationship between what is represented with the natural, and, therefore, when you consider that a work is “finished “; the use of painting as a means to overturn their inside world out; the conviction that their art contributes to a better world; in short, two artists with soul, of the soul and for the soul.

See the opening of “Germinate”

Ver catalogue “Germinar”