Stephanie Têtu Catalogue - Piermarq

STEPHANIE TETU

STEPHANIE TÊTU | SEX & SPLENDOUR PIERMARQ ART ADVISORY PTY LIMITED JONES BAY WHARF, SUITE 48, 26-32 PIRRAMA RD, PYRMONT NSW 2009 T +61 2 9660 7799 info@piermarq.com.au www.piermarq.com.au

STEPHANIE TÊTU | SEX & SPLENDOUR Piermarq is proud to present the solo exhibition Sex & Splendour, featuring a new body of work by Canadian-Australian still life sensation Stephanie Têtu.

Tuesday 21 July 2015, 6.30-9pm Piermarq Gallery at Jones Bay Wharf Suite 48, 26-32 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009 RSVP 02 9660 7799 or rsvp@piermarq.com.au

STEPHANIE TÊTU Stephanie Têtu (b. 1967) is an emerging artist who originates from Montreal, Canada. Nowadays Têtu is based in Sydney where she burst onto the art scene with majestic oil paintings of flora, having been included in several well received solo and group exhibitions over the last few years.

Active in the world of styling and fashion, Stephanie Têtu is an autodidact with regards to the visual arts scene – however not without merit. She is constantly exploring colour and shape, bringing the viewer a sense of intimacy and enchantment with her thoughtful and figurative studies. She manages to closely capture the ephemeral beauty and fragility of flowers and create a sense of drama as well as delicacy, a skill that belies her relatively young artistic career.

Stephanie Têtu: “I love painting flowers, they symbolise sex and femininity, the cycles of life. Viewing them in large scale, you can’t deny their fleshiness. You discover intimate details revealed in their full splendour.”

Her work is reminiscent of the highly sought-after flower paintings by the acclaimed American figurative pop-artist Alex Katz (b. 1927), showing realist and close-up depictions of bright coloured floral subjects, often placed against a neutral monotonous background. However, where Katz’s themes are stylised and breathe a sense of optical systemization, Stephanie Têtu’s realist depictions of flowers are placed in the perspective realm, rendered with meticulous eye for details and fragility. As she mentions herself: “They are more like portraits than just plain flower paintings, they tell a life story in all their blemishes, bruises and scars”.

Stephanie Têtu has seen her works widely collected in important private collections throughout the country. She is driving her beautiful and appealing aesthetic to see greater institutional inclusion and has earmarked the significant domestic set prizes toward the immediate future.

Stephanie TĂŞtu Sex & Splendour, 2015 Oil on canvas, 153 x 305 cm (diptych)

Stephanie TĂŞtu Full Moon, 2015 Oil on canvas, 122 x 244 cm (diptych)

Stephanie TĂŞtu Dark Iris #1, 2015 Oil on canvas 153 x 153 cm

Stephanie TĂŞtu Dark Iris #2, 2015 Oil on canvas 122 x 122 cm

Stephanie TĂŞtu Moonlit, 2015 Oil on canvas 153 x 122 cm

Stephanie Têtu It’s a jungle out there, 2015 Oil on canvas 153 x 153 cm

Contact us +61 2 9660 7799 info@piermarq.com.au JONES BAY WHARF SUITE 48, 26-32 PIRRAMA RD PYRMONT NSW 2009

PIERMARQ ART ADVISORY PTY LIMITED JONES BAY WHARF, SUITE 48, 26-32 PIRRAMA RD, PYRMONT NSW 2009 T +61 2 9660 7799 info@piermarq.com.au www.piermarq.com.au