From pen to brush: PAINT between words, PAINT against ailments
Michele Ansermet-Papadopoulos
It was in 2012, during the Hivernales de Montreuil that we had just created, that for the first time we crossed paths with this artist.
In the vast panorama of contemporary creation, his works intrigued us to such an extent that from the evening of the opening, we waited for the doors to close to take a closer look, in complete tranquility ...
If the entanglement of writings, shapes and color testified to a profound originality, the plastic formulation had this unheard of in that it managed to express in the same pictorial space the ethical and aesthetic concerns of the artist!
This characteristic is indeed the "trademark" of our artist, that of an inimitable style, immediately identifiable.
If the reference to Lettrism, the sulphurous avant-garde of the 1950s-1960s, touches us, it is immediately abandoned.
In fact, Isidore Isou and his fellows have opened up a new plastic field by giving the organization of alphabetical elements an extra-sensory dimension.
However, this is not the point of Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos.
The proximity with Ben would be a priori more obvious, both rooting their vocabulary in a "schoolgirl" memory.
When the first would use the white chalk on the black background of the black slate to write only one sentence, the second would use the black pen on a white page background to cover it with words of gleaming colors ... therefore separate them.
Totally involved in her painting - surprisingly vast, her pictorial culture sometimes brings out here and there the ghosts of Fernand Léger, Dubuffet, Chaissac, Matisse, Cocteau, Miro, Picasso or ... Ingres, whom she in turn revisits!
Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos is enough to be herself.
With ease.
Having perfectly assimilated the modernity of the last century, it was able to avoid the trap which strikes so many epigones; obviously, it is in its own background that it draws essentially.
The aggregation of forms, lines, words, rhythms and the most sonorous tones compose a unique pictorial score whose jubilant decorative effect provokes an immediate eye seduction.
A direct and lively language, of an astonishing youth, or the denunciation by the verb of injustices and impostures -
ART = DOLL - ART - Corrruption, etc. is combined with the figurative signs of bodies and objects which intertwine on geometric areas of pure colors ... A singular art testifying to a high mastery of contrasts, contrasts of lines, colors, rhythms and patterns. A plastic incantation without equal in the painting of our time.
The major work, ART = DOLL - ART - could synthesize on its own the vocabulary of Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos.
One wonders how she manages to make this deployment of the most unexpected shapes coherent without falling into a disastrous scribbling effect! But the miracle operates.
Not only does the work affirm the most solid architecture, but it exudes such plastic intensity that once our eyes are immersed in its universe, it never leaves us! Playing as a virtuoso with the awkwardness of childhood, she multiplies the arabesques, has fun with the words that she zooms in according to their ethical importance and the most diverse graphics in the interweaving of bodies giving this plastic diversity the obvious aesthetics as controlled as they are authentic!
Such is the successful alchemy of an artist revealing the feverish questions of her conscience and the interiority of her soul by the plastic means of painting in order to create, without any complex and like a snub to the cult of the dirty that invades, beauty.
"Is beautiful" said Kandinsky, "that which proceeds from an inner necessity of the soul. Is beautiful that which is beautiful inside."
This shows how beautiful the work of Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos is! This shows how much it is necessary for us!
Text by Noel Coret
Art writer
Titre 6
ANT tv chanel article from cyprus
Prix Ch. Peugeot 2016
Alain SNYERS
Sortie de l'ENSAD en 1971, Michele Ansermet Papadopoulos est lauréate du prix de peinture 2016 du Salon d'Automne de Paris, pour son oeuvre BATACLAN.
L'oeuvre de Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos se veut délibérément politique en faisant référence aux réalités du monde contemporain.
Par ses peintures, elle cherche à informer sur des injustices, à dénoncer des scandales internationaux que ce soit les dérives bancaires, les drames de l'exil, les dangers du nucléaire ou encore la violence terroriste.
Les toiles de Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos, colorées et joyeuses d'apparence, portent en elles par les mots et les slogans inscrits, une dénonciation et un appel à la conscience citoyenne.
