Shown for the first time in Asia, this tailor-made exhibition launches Cécile Bart’s new experiences in her artistic practice. Hosted at LANDMARK Atrium, the monumental installation features sequential paintings that challenge perspectives in terms of depth, surface and the modulation of light and movement within a space – elements that the artist brings together with great precision.

Bart dispenses with the conventional straight-on view by hanging her paintings/screens freely from the ceiling. They are strung with thin metal cables to give the impression that they are floating or levitating, forming sensitive, diaphanous surfaces that the eye encounters and looks right through. When walking under the installation visitors encounter new compositions and different positions from which the paintings/screens appear to have stopped in mid-flight or mid-fall.

About the artist:

Since the late 1980s, Cécile Bart (born 1958 in Dijon, France) has been producing a singular work that depicts the painting, applied on transparent canvas (paintings/screens) and its modulation by light. As well as the large installations that helped elevate her recognition in the 1990s (the ARC at the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, The Consortium in Dijon, The Villa Arson in Nice, the MAMCO in Geneva, etc.), Cécile Bart revitalized her exhibitions by collaborating with two or three other artists, such as the painter Felice Varini, and sculptors Michel Verjux, François Morellet and Peter Downsbrough, among others.

Image: © Cécile Bart