Discover the contemporary work of Nadja Belhadj
After an art preparation at the At the Clouet workshop, it was by making, painting, tearing and sticking that Nadja built her identity. artistic. Self-taught with a passion for art history, she delves into what has been the history of art. created by others to convey their own messages.
“If the feathers make the plumage, it’s not the glue that makes the bond. »
Max ERNST
Nadja Belhadj’s objective is to give shape, color and life to the paper abstractions gleaned and à from these little « nothing » very concrete things like glue and paint.
From the most precious to the simplest, she tears the papers, glues them, inks them, burns them and patinas, offering us a prodigious and disconcerting world, phantasmagorical and dreamlike. Nadja Belhadj walks her spectators into a possibility infinite interpretations. Each painting calls for inspiration. our imagination, our own references, our intuition and leaves nothing indifferent.
Its common thread, myth, ancient, modern or contemporary.
“The collage” is a long discussion between the artist and his intentions. There is, at the beginning, a desire to disorganization of the surface, but chance then encroaches on this predefined territory. This chance, of which Jean Arp said “he who lets himself be led by chance will be able to weave a living web”.
At first glance, creating these tables gives you the opportunity to understand read the thicknesses, the transparency, the subtleties of which the burning of paint and paper is a part.
Impregnated by the history of art, Nadja leaves her characters and her “paper guests” “s’express” in tables… at the heart of the painting. Surrealism, Symbolism, Russian Constructivism, Dadaism and even Expressionism are all currents that transport and move it, and us by trickle.
