Marianne Quinzin

In the beginning, the color! To lay down the paint, to act on the matter. Hiding, covering, then being a spectator of what exists outside of oneself. Remove, scratch, sand, wash. To let emerge a light which does not exist, to play with the thicknesses and the transparencies so that the bottom and the form often merge, to make exist several possible levels of readings. To let sometimes the subject show through, to impose itself perhaps in a second time. To build imaginary spaces marked by memories, interior landscapes and landscapes in the landscape. Constantly coming and going between will and chance, play between intention and accident, bias and use of the unexpected. Between figuration and abstraction, the work of Marianne Quinzin evokes nature and natural elements. Landscapes, skies, water, mountains and rocks are for her inexhaustible sources of inspiration. She likes to suggest more than to represent, to let the viewer's imagination run free and to arouse his emotion. Her artistic affinities are varied and eclectic. The light of Turner, the power of the colored vibrations and the rigor of the compositions of De Staël, the explosive freedom of Joan Mitchell, the technical mastery and the extent of the work of Gerhard Richter, sometimes figurative and sometimes abstract. The artistic movements that influence her painting are mainly abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction, in particular the work of Zao Wou-Ki for the research of light, the play of transparency and opacity, the alternation of empty and full. Marianne Quinzin is a graduate of the Decorative Arts and the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon. She has dedicated herself fully to painting for the past twenty years, and lives and works in Rouen. Her work is present in many private collections in France and abroad.