Sophie Chaintrier is the painter of “Vedute” on a rather thin time layer
It is not a question here of “Vedutism” in the sense of the precision of the representation in perspective ofurban landscapes, but a practice of figurative painting aimed at producingthe tangible memories of aten minutesjourney in a bus, or a few hours in a train, a museum, a swimming pool, a landscape.
She repaints images which kept tenderness for an era thatproduced archetypes, that contemporaneity still struggles to make disappear: the train station have a chef, train cars hair salons and restaurants.
In cardboard frames or on wooden board with mostly reduced dimensions, the artist captures withKodacolor aesthetic, life instants, which she then colors in full, as one would post-produce memories
The painting of the representationrealizes the passage of the object to the symbol, and makes three pieces of paper in a certain order assembled, become a memory object.
The “tableautin”is brought back as trophy value, it is the tangible proof of the journey, the guarantee of the journeyas an experience.
To bring back a singular object as evidence of a foundational personal experience, is what thecollectordoes when he returns from the exhibition with under his arm a treasure to share.
The paintings of Sophie Chaintrier remind us of the place and the role of art in the constitution of our lives.
First architect, then writer for SNCF architecture newsletter, she now spents more time to paint life instants.
Exhibits :
- Montreuil – (France) « Portes ouvertes des ateliers d’artistes » : Invitée chez Cali – october 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2019
- Montreuil : Christmas sale at Sylviane Clermont
- Paris - Hotel ****ElyséeMermoz – december 2017-juin 2018
- Paris - Nopoto – art Christmas sale – december 2017
- Paris - Le PWAC ( small week-end for contemporary art) –december 2017
- Paris - Salon des arts visuels Olympe de Gouges – december 2018