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Kellestom by ... METBARRAN
"This exhibition will grace the walls until November 9, 2016. A beautiful autumn in the company of KELLESTOM, as this is the artist name of the painter currently invited, in fact, an invited female artist.
A pseudonym that some psychiatrists might tell us carries within it this question of identity quest: "who (what) is this man". Psychiatrists like to put ideas in our heads, but we are not obliged to keep them there for long, since in plastic arts, painting, and graphic design, it is preferable to trust one's eyes rather than one's ears - even when it comes to musicalized painting.
KELLESTOM paints and is not new to it. Nor is this her first exhibition in our region, particularly in the Albères region that she knows well. Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, she almost simultaneously entered her "career" through the hexagonal door and the international door, on the side of the .
A simple indication to emphasize that geography, its places and distances, between cities and people, play a "generating" role in her work. And also playing a "stimulating" role is her representation in events, whether in France or New York, and in gallery catalogs with names like "Little van Gogh" from Brussels or "Fellini Gallery"from Berlin.
In short, our KELLESTOM is a "mover", and everything that moves is of the living, even if it is not clearly expressed in a genre, gendered, in Art History, like figurative or abstract, in a Western aesthetic or in an aesthetic that takes its foundations elsewhere.
Elsewhere and here, like color and graphic design, a dichotomy found in her work, whatever the format but most generally vertically structured, translated by a sometimes telescoped encounter of formal or chromatic signs but predominantly balanced in a balance of greens and reds as well as whites and blacks that fully claim the same title of color as their palette mates...
In other times, KELLESTOM could have been a cloud painter, or lyrical. But she is not a woman of total abstraction, nor enamored of a fully tachist nebula, for a strong attachment to the world and to humanity resides within her, to its profiles, its ghosts, its masks, an attachment rekindled - because acrylics speak loudly - by this interplay of elsewhere and here, of the Parisian and the Albèrienne, of this European greedy for the four cardinal points, of this painter with a mind so open by the principle and the tribute of happiness or bitterness of travel, of contact with other spaces, habitats, people, and customs, that today she could paint with her eyes closed or blindfolded.
Her paintings are like explorations, playing - with vigor but without exaggeration or violence - with presences and evanescences. They confront us with peaceful visual events, manifestations of an emotion, a desire, a memory, a dream, an absence.
KELLESTOM titles most of her canvases (often mixed media, with inclusions and object collages), which is a clever way to offer us a key to entering the cartography of her universe."
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