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>>> 23.09.2016

"Rhythms & Reflections" : Waddington Custot exhibited Fabienne Verdier in London

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Rhythms and Reflections 
25 November 2016 – 4 Feruary 2017
 
"The Juilliard Experiment" screening in the presence of the artist
14 January at 4pm at the Institut Français London
 
Waddington Custot
11 - 12 Cork Street
London W1S 3LT


Image on top: 
Fabienne Verdier, Triptyque ivoire, 2016
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
© Waddington Custot
 
Image above:
Fabienne Verdier in her studio, 2016
© Waddington Custot
This November, Waddington Custot is proud to present Fabienne Verdier’s (b. 1962, Paris) first solo exhibition in London. The exhibition will feature large-scale abstract paintings produced over the last year.
 
These include recent work from the Walking Paintings series as well as a new group of paintings, Rhythms and Reflections, which mark a noteworthy change of direction for the artist. 
 
Verdier’s physical and performative creative practice has undergone an evolution in recent years that can be seen most vividly in the Rhythms and Reflections series. These paintings were made following Verdier's return to France from a period of intense experimentation spent as the first visual artist-in-residence at The Juilliard School in New York in 2014. The creation of both music and painting simultaneously, awakened in Verdier a profound awareness of vibration and the rhythm of melodic phrases. 
 
As a painter known for combining an Eastern artistic education with the tradition of Western art, Verdier’s work is characterised by bold gestural compositions relying on a number of techniques developed over the past thirty years.
 
In an intensely physical process, Verdier uses painting tools of her own invention, large-scale, custom-made brushes, funnels and other implements suspended from her studio ceiling. 
 
« Everything in this world is vibration: forces in constant movement, combinations of rhythms and reflections of the real. We ourselves are rhythms steeped in the great universal rhythm.»
 
Fabienne Verdier 
 

Image on top: 
Fabienne Verdier, Triptyque ivoire, 2016
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
© Waddington Custot
 
Image above:
Fabienne Verdier in her studio, 2016
© Waddington Custot

About

 
Rhythms and Reflections 
25 November 2016 – 4 Feruary 2017
 
"The Juilliard Experiment" screening in the presence of the artist
14 January at 4pm at the Institut Français London
 
Waddington Custot
11 - 12 Cork Street
London W1S 3LT

Waddington Custot