In 2008, I started using old marine charts as a base for painting female nudes. The idea came when I was asked to illustrate a collection of love poems, “Au lieu des corps”, by Pascal Rebetez – Éditions Encre et Lumière.
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En 2008, j’ai commencé à utiliser des vieilles cartes marines pour peindre des nus féminins. L’idée est venue quand on m’a proposé d’illustrer un recueil de poèmes d’amour, “Au lieu des corps”, de Pascal Rebetez – Éditions Encre et Lumière.
“Calvi” – 2008, oil on paper, 20 x 40 cm – appears on the cover of the ordinary edition of “Au lieu des corps”
Maps provide a very poetic starting point for painting. Some date back to the end of the 19th century and were used for navigating long before I found them.
By tearing and re-assembling the maps on canvas, a new geography of the female nude emerges.
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Les cartes constituent un point de départ très poétique pour la peinture. Quelques-unes datent du 19ème siècle et ont servi à la navigation bien avant que je ne les trouve.
En déchirant et en rassemblant les cartes sur la toile, une nouvelle géographie du corps féminin se dessine.
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- “Calvi” – 2008, oil on paper, 20 x 40 cm – appears on the cover of the ordinary edition of “Au lieu des corps”
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- Ross, oil on paper, 40 x 30 cm, 2009
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- Longwy, mixed media, 90 x 70 cm, 2008
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- Mézières, mixed media, 90 x 70 cm, 2008
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- Chilly, mixed media, 90 x 70 cm, 2008
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- Côte sud-ouest, mixed media, 120 x 90, 2008
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- Detail of The Three Graces, mixed media, triptych, 90 x 210 cm, 2008
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- English Channel, oil on paper, 110 x 90 cm, 2010
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- Firth of Clyde, oil on paper, 120 x 90 cm, 2009
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- Newhaven II, oil on paper, 110 x 38 cm, 2010
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- Île de Bas, oil on paper, 110 x 90 cm, 2010
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- Strait of Gibraltar, diptych, mixed media, 100 x 100 cm, 2011
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- Owers, mixed media, 120 x 80 cm, 2011
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- Western sheet, mixed media, 120 x 80 cm, 2011
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- Inverie Bay, mixed media, 120 x 80 cm, 2011
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- Loch Nevis, mixed media, 120 x 80 cm, 2011
Isis Olivier 