Vue d’Automne – Chantel Moret

Chantel Moret – Vue d’automne – acrylique sur toile – 48’’ X 24’’

I was born in Geneva in 1955, and since then I have never stopped practicing all the forms of art that are the essence of my life as a painter, sculptor, fine arts teacher, and gallery owner. I have exhibited in many parts of the world, and was selected as an international artist invited by the Italian Pavilion during Art Basel in Miami Florida in December 2010. During my career as an artist, I have worked by themes: landscape (Gorges de l’Orbe), dance (Ballet Béjart), author’s texts (Jacques Chessex, Philippe Leignel, Atiq Rahimi, Alain de Saval), the consequences of our actions on nature (mer d ‘Aral, melting glaciers), the relationship to original signs (women of Mali, Kuba of Zaire, people of Omo), migrants (the jungle of Calais, makeshift boats), interior geographies (questioning from of x-rays of the human body), and the atmosphere of the St Petersburg cemetery.

From January 2015, I worked in an artist residency at the National Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, invited by the gallery’s curator Mr. Raphael Chikukwa. At the Palazzo del Trono in Calabria, I present 19 paintings created in Corsica in June July 2018, on the theme Xenos, the welcome of the other, of the host, and also the host who receives, who opens his door. There is the sea to cross, the land, this planet for everyone, the boats, and people, sometimes large, or hidden on the horizon, standing, lying down, heads down…

Through shapes and materials, I have always wanted to evoke “the human”. Moving from the inside to the outside, I imagine… While creating lives, I never stop wondering about the human condition, the life of beings, witnesses or actors? Everything is transformed into images and shapes, I try to catch fragments of the world on the fly, which I stage, with the acute awareness of the fragility and brevity of all things, of the presence of death inscribed at the very heart of life, like shadow and light…