Louise Delanghe
“Boulevard Angel”
June 16 - July 9, 2023
On the brink of sleep and the bed, I was yawning yesterday, watching a documentary about diamonds. A synthetic diamond isn't a real one, a seasoned trader proclaimed. Quite obvious. The trade trembles at the mere thought.
If all that searching and toiling is no longer needed,...
Damn, and now there's an ice cream line here next to the pizza gallery... twenty kids hesitating over which scoop they'll choose. The same goes for a painting.
Behind my back, the final pieces of Louise's second show are being hung on the wall.
BOULEVARD ANGEL is a compact series of paintings, all originating in the south of France during the early spring of this year. Most of the works are painted on boards that come from a dismantled children's school in India.
When Louise searched for supports, it was immediately clear that waste wood is now big business. So she had to buy those boards, and they came from India, so the story goes.
After acquiring a tripod, she walked with her dog through the landscape of Van Gogh... some small leaf touches were already discernible. The olive trees were still bare and drab black, like spiders.
Paintings, therefore, born in nature with all the contingencies that decide their fate, much like Robespierre's guillotine did with aristocrats. Like a fin de siècle tourist, she got lost in the motifs of the South of France, which had been visited by illustrious predecessors more than once... some motifs looked like empty-drunk cocktails with cigarette butts in them...
Even a bullfight in Arles has become so complex nowadays; but the Roman canal is still doing excellently. Tinderwood, however, was available in abundance again. Their prehistoric forms only needed some staples to stand up like shamanistic sculptures.
Later, with a view of the sea, she painted a pot of flowers she looked up on Google Images. The boulevard angel she ran into at the Roman dump, Marseille. A strange Big Lebowski cowboy, who had already told everything, and winked again at the end. A real diamond, for what it's worth...
(Text by Matthieu Ronsse)
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