The spirit of the place | Christelle Téa
Some days until 3rd July 2017
11:00 - 18:00
Audience type Adult
Artist residency from September 2016 to June 2017
Exhibition from May 17 to July 3, 2017
Moving testimonies from a young artist of the 21ste century to a museum from another time, Christelle Téa's portraits, revive the original vocation of the site, the house-atelier. The Musée Jean-Jacques Henner thus continues its original function as a place of creation.
(self-portrait), 2016, Indian ink on paper,
65 x 50 cm © Christelle Téa
Her work essentially revolves around drawing with Indian ink pen, and has the particularity of being done on the spot, without any preparatory drawings. Christelle Téa does not seek realism in the photographic sense, quite the contrary. For her, drawing means choosing the most significant elements from the complexity of reality. When asked about these portraits, it's Alberto Giacometti she invokes, to best define her own work: "It's the very details that make the whole [...] that make the beauty of a form."
During three months, from September to November 2016, Christelle Téa therefore observed the museum's daily life: its staff, its activities, its rooms. From this mirror she held up were born three large portrait series comprising some thirty drawings on Canson paper - formats 65 × 50 and 24 × 30.5 cm.
