This summer, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery is pleased to present the intriguing work of Natacha Mercier.
After exploring colours and white, through the dark, Natacha Mercier continues her quest to show the immaterial, that which cannot be seen, cannot be given to ourselves, thus to be seen by ourselves. The artist opens the field of a beyond the visible.
This summer, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery is pleased to present the intriguing work of Natacha Mercier.
Natacha Mercier explores any format, from small sizes to monumental formats. The artist never ceases developing her pictorial technique and renewing her subjects, working in sequences and series, with a noticeable tendency for quotation, staging, subjects and motifs of the artwork.
After employing a wide range of colours, in particular white, to which the artist has devoted already a large number of paintings, Natacha Mercier is currently pursuing her approach in the colour black.
Obscurity, shadow and blackness are new areas of research In her recent works. The landscape, the forest in particular, emerges in the midst of the blackness. In contrast to her white paintings, in which the figures are revealed in a certain evanescence of light, it is from the depths of the night that the images arise. The artist succeeds in materialising the dream of a nocturnal vision, of another invisible, mysterious world, that of the forest, the wilderness, the unknown. Through the black, Natacha Mercier continues her quest to show the intangible, which cannot be seen, cannot be given.
In July and August, you will be welcomed, sorry to say, only by appointment, except on Saturdays in July (2/9/16/23/30 July from 2 to 6 pm). Do not hesitate to contact us for an appointment.