Michèle PrÊvost
art portfolio
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Passionate about drawing since her childhood, Michèle Prévost decided to leave Paris twenty-five years ago to devote herself to art. First in Milan, then in Venice, where she lives and works today, she gradually moved closer to abstract painting. Her works, exhibited in collective and solo exhibitions, in Italy and in France, are surreal and enigmatic representations, which seem liquid and in perpetual transformation, and in which colour, composition, surface and process are treated in a genuinely contemporary manner. Based on the psychology of visual perception, Prévost’s art is inspired by colour itself and by the material properties of painting as an integrated colour. She uses a mixed media technique on canvas where enamel and acrylic are superimposed to create new surfaces, thus underlining their mutability over time.
criticism
The art critic Antonello Rubini describes the work of Prévost as follows: “This is painting which, from the original abandonment of the pictorial gesture on the surface, is defined in an almost unrestrained form, and then in a composite image, in a natural becoming that seems to be evolving, as if these works were screens projecting ever-changing images, certainly of abstract essence, but not excluding figurative references, as in certain work with horizontal strips of painting, placed one above the other, where the observer distinguishes terrestrial or marine fragments, or an echo of a landscape; or, above all, in “Cities”, a cycle of paintings in which traces of memories of journeys emerge, with an inborn figurative reference. In essence, the artist strives to represent the act of painting itself, which ultimately expresses all its constitutive properties, masterfully revealing the point of conjunction between gesture, sign, colour and matter. Prévost establishes each time a different dominance, paying great attention to balance and, needless to say, to the basic emotional response to her ego. There is no search for depth, and everything deliberately stops at the surface, as if to create a wall, a wall of painting on which the observer “impacts”. Powerfully suggestive, her works ultimately endeavour to reveal the very essence of painting through “alchemies of raw material”, as Prévost herself explains”.
Morning cm 80 x 80
Evening cm 80 x 80
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Abysses 80 cm 80 x 80
Abysses 80 bis cm 80 x 80
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Abysses 88 cm 80 x 80
Abysses 88 bis cm 80 x 80
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Abysses 83 cm 80 x 80
Abysses 83 bis cm 80 x 80
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Abysses 82 cm 80 x 80
Abysses 82 bis cm 80 x 80
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Abysses 61 cm 60 x 60
Abysses 61 bis cm 60 x 60
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Abysses 86 cm 80 x 80
Abysses 86 bis cm 80 x 80
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Abysses 76 cm 70 x 70
Find the river cm 80 x 80
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Abysses 85 cm 80 x 80
Imitation of life cm 70 x 70
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Electrolite cm 70 x 70
Everybody hurts cm 70 x 70
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Abysses 70 cm 70 x 70
La paix cm 120 x 100
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Abysses 81 cm 80 x 80
Abysses 72 cm 70 x 70
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Abysses 62 cm 60 x 60
The guidance of Sybil cm 80 x 80
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The fate of the queen cm 80 x 80
Deiopea cm 80 x 80
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Andromache’s lament cm 80 x 80
Juno’s resentment cm 80 x 80
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Gift of prophecy cm 80 x 80
Dido in love cm 80 x 80
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Fragments cm 80 x 80
The fate of Dido cm 100 x 80
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exhibitions
Permanent solo exhibition: BHR Treviso Hotel - Quinto di Treviso (Italy) June 2016: Art days “Treviso d’Arte Diffusa” - Treviso (Italy) August 2016: Collective exhibition - Webart Gallery - Treviso (Italy) September 2016: Collective exhibition “Levall’art” - Galerie l’Escale - Levallois-Perret (France) October 2016: Art days in Villa Persico - Lancenigo di Villorba (Italy) October 2016: Contemporary artfair “Arte Fiera Dolomiti” - 11th edition - Longarone (Italy) February 2017: Contemporary artfair “Arte Fiera Dolomiti” - 12th edition - Longarone (Italy) September 2017: Collective exhibition «Levall’art» - Galerie l’Escale Levallois-Perret (France) September 2017: Solo exhibition «Origines» - Médiathèque Eiffel Levallois-Perret (France) September 2017 - September 2018: Collective exhibition «Art at the Hertford» 12th edition - Institut hospitalier franco-britannique - Levallois-Perret (France) May 2018: Solo exhibition - Astoria Lounge - Susegana - Treviso (Italy) June - September 2018: Solo exhibition in the Crédit Mutuel bank headquarters Paris La Défense (France) September 2018: Collective exhibition “Levall’art” - Galerie l’Escale Levallois-Perret (France) September 2018 - September 2019: Collective exhibition “Art at the Hertford” 13th edition - Hertford British Hospital Charity - Levallois-Perret (France)
galleries
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contact
E-mail: prevomi@gmail.com Phone: 0039 348 151 49 89
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