artist/ GWENDOLINE AUBERT

France

Quiet strength, depth of colour, deceptive appearances, openwork, balance and fragility are the identifiable features of Gwendoline Aubert’s work.

Attracted by the grace of the female body in movement, the trips she has been able to make, especially in Asia, have also left their mark. She loves the human and the elsewhere, the variety that makes the richness. The diversity of the themes she works on in clay but also in bronze nevertheless has one thing in common: the quiet strength that can be found in a meditating monk, a yogi in a perilous position, a feline at rest or ready to pounce or a weakened face that has found the strength of reconstruction.
His pieces often offer the duality of a double reading, both very clear on one side and cut up on the other. It is up to each person to read what they want to see, a crack, an inner emptiness, or rather, as the artist wants to translate it, the liberation of an overflow, a lightness, a search for balance between strength and freedom. Finally the patinas give a depth that invites the viewer to look behond superficial layers and appearances and two go towards his/her own introspection…