BERTHET-AITTOUARES

In the era of the Anthropocene, how can we bear witness to nature and our environment? The three artists in the exhibition, Anne Manoli, Yann Bagot, and Paul Iratzoquy, each at different stages of their careers, are here claiming a reappropriation of nature to reveal its strength and beauty. Like adventurers, they draw on location (Bagot), live the empirical experience of the mountains and hiking (Iratzoquy), or become silent observers (Anne Manoli) to bear witness to it as faithfully as possible. In front of their painted works or
drawn, the viewer feels an immersion in a creative telluric world and a communion with the mineral and the plant. The senses are awakened, the work emancipates itself from its support, the viewer is caught up in these parturient worlds. Faced with the immensity of these monumental rock beaches, Yann Bagot transcribes their raw beauty. Faced with the mountain, man feels his smallness, Paul Iratzoquy undertakes to map it to better understand it. As for Anne Manoli, the world of water, ponds and its inhabitants like frogs is a mirror of the soul and emotions.