Description
Louise Cara presents some forty works dedicated to two mountains that are symbols of their country: Mont Ventoux and Mount Fuji, the natural emblems of Provence and Japan, both UNESCO World Heritage sites.
It's a tribute she wishes to pay to these two giants of geography, who have fueled her creation for the past twenty years, inspired by their respective landscapes around their mythical peaks, painting in Japanese ink - her main pictorial medium chosen for its aesthetic appeal. Her works, strongly imbued with spirituality through her minimalist style, will resonate with the sacred architecture of the Célestins church, and play with the theme of surpassing and elevating oneself that links the different subjects at the very heart of this exhibition: the painted mountains evoked, the Célestins church itself, and the inner quest that her painting expresses.
Louise Cara wishes to offer the public an immersive, poetic and contemplative, even civilizational, pictorial experience. A journey between the Far East and the West, between mountains and transcendence, uniting cultures, showing that the forms of nature are sources of rapprochement for human beings, and of inspiration in mirror form, for the world. A message of peace and serenity, and a commitment to the place of the sacred in contemporary art.
Opening Thursday, May 7, 6pm.
May 15 & 16 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm: "Le Voyage de l'âme" with Julie Bouriche, a Sufi dance performance accompanied by musician Farshad Soltani and singer Ava Soltani.
May 26 at 6:30pm: "Quand les montagnes passent comme des nuages" with essayist and novelist Karima Berger, text written for the exhibition - read with musician Farshad Soltani.
Free admission.
