Discover the contemporary work of Marie Hélène ROGER
If from the fall of a few apples, Newton deduced the theory of terrestrial attraction, if from the same apples, Cézanne deduced the possibility of to make the painting appear and not what she paints, the artist from the upper cantons of Hérault invents what is even more precious: the joy of living and another way of creating life. we can see, read our lives. Each work by Marie-Hélène Roger is therefore intended above all to be a carefree and happy work. This is where it is. a challenge and an exception. For this there is no need for plastic equations. It is enough to exhibit scenes in a physical aspect. The caricature is no longer a criticism but a way of being in the world: two (« Ton et Tata) or in groups of partygoers. But always for sharing. Marie Hélène Roger makes the gesture of creation coincide with dazzlingness. In the square From the canvas (or rather its square) life beats wildly, it remains lanky in the middle of a stream of shapes and colors. The artist sketches her charades as she sketches life. She showers her with caresses so that she bursts with joy all the way to the coves on the coast or in the little cafe. opposite. The creator makes her characters unique. variable geometry the sign of vital determination. Colors and shapes overflow. We never get tired of it. The conductor of this pagan mass becomes the fairy without stress or glitz. At least that's how she wants to appear. She keeps her own anxieties behind her. He is of rare politeness and sensitivity. the most extreme. Face to face those who prefer to hit us with the high depths of the swells of their anguish, she opts for another path which is anything but a path of Galley. She takes us into the aircraft of her vignettes for the striptease not of the body but of the vital forces. Sometimes, like Picasso, Marie-Hélène Roger draws the letters. They write kinds of drawings. Which brings him through the band to design a form of calligraphy whereù the lines free themselves from the constraints of the signifier and veer resolutely in the direction of pure drawing. It becomes the manifestation of emotions as simple as they are primordial. The work in its journey becomes the immense stationery of a work of illuminations. A richly illustrated work but « evil » (that is to say good) caption caption so that what is so lacking is born art: laughter. A frank, massive, gravelly laugh. Not a pinched laugh. The result is to be expected. both a form of « pastiche » but above all the means of writing, in an exploded form, a human adventure with unbridled lyricism, liberated by from the straitjacket of fixed forms. Marie-Hélène Roger is therefore the calligrapher and colorist of life in all its states. In each canvas is condensed; which relates to plastic art, to graphics but also to a particular poetry of which today we have few examples. The fortune teller only deals out good cards to us, at Jaco's or Ginette's. Of course we still have something left to do. make good use of it. And above all do not hesitate - as they say in the north - to « go down » à Montpellier to join the artist to have an aperitif with her. Under its blue sky the little yellow is already served. Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
