Born in Austria, Marie Duquesnoy now makes her home in Paris, France, where she studied at the Beaux Art Institute of the City of Paris. Marie is an artist of her epoch, called by the interaction of the being and his environment. When she takes paintbrush in hand, both abstract and figurative painting become pure adventure for her. Her style may be academic or not... depending...! For the starting point of her paintings is always an emotion, somewhere between seduction and beauty, between dream and reality, delving into her deepest inner self which can bring her to the brink of the mysterious... perhaps even to the edge of creation. Her diverse sources of inspiration, such as documents, photos or media, are transcribed into her own language, where one often has trouble following her, so much are her subjects varied, her point of view unique. However, her colors have their own logic, independent sometimes from the real. She runs everywhere, recreating moments, at the detour of a sketch where she inscribes the stopping of time, all serving her for her definitive work. Always questing, this fine observer of our universe both past and present invests the canvas with unexpected perspectives and frames, in a labyrinth of frank, rapid, free-flying strokes, which give rhythm to her empty spaces. She is as enamored of archaic landscapes as with more familiar, contemporary, or the most intimate themes. Sometimes she needles the spectator with a sharp critical vision, even violent, but always tempered with infinite tenderness. Nothing is spared for us – not even the sudden apparition of a painting where soft colors in a delicate light hang suspended, their images reduced to the essential. Sometimes her subjects surge forth as if they were about to escape from the frame. But there is always an impression of great spontaneity in the works of Marie Duquesnoy. She brings us into a world of total art, at once musical, poetic and pictoral. As said Pierre Bonnard, « many small lies for a great truth ».

Olivia Parlange (la Gazette des Arts)

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