Paris lives and breathes art. Everywhere you turn, there is art in some form or the other. Whether it is artfully arranged macarons, window displays elevated to the level of installation art, or actual sculpture and canvases, one doesn’t have to look far to find inspiration.
I stumbled across two galleries showing the works of artists whose work got my attention.
EWA BATHELIER
Images Courtesy of Espace St. Germain, Paris
An empty tutu painted on a huge canvas immediately conjures a feeling of whimsy mixed with a touch of the melancholy. Bathelier’s enormous paintings feature these lovely but lonely images of tutus in stark contrasts of black and white, or vivid shades of colors like red and orange. Their haunting but haute appeal is evident in a piece of hers which hangs in a Georgio Armani installation in New York.
MARCO DEL RE
Images Courtesy of Galerie Maeght, Paris
Although Marco Del Re paints in a variety of styles, it is his powerful and graphic images that grabbed my eyes. Obviously inspired by the style cut images by Matisse, Del Re gives us not only something exciting to look at, but something to think about as well.