Discover the contemporary work of S.LOHMANN - SYLOH
Sylvie LOHMANN, Silver medal in 2006 by the Academic Society « ARTS and SCIENCES » (Academic society founded in 1915 and acknowledged by the ACADEMIE FRANCAISE). Sylvie LOHMANN was born in Paris in April 1962. Since she has always been interested in the expression of the Beautiful she naturally chose to lead an artistic career. She started by being an interior designer (see photo reports in the reviews "Maisons Normandes" N° 73 Oct./Nov. 2002, "C-Déco" N° 4 Nov./Dec. 2003, and "Interieurs Campagne" N° 9 March/Apr. 2006). Thus, for years, she enjoyed handling pictorial techniques, colours, and the creation of forms. Her love for painting has always been a part of it.***Her first exhibitions are in private rooms. Then she is selected : - By the town of Vaucresson to exhibit in the Arts centre, under the patronage of the Ministry for the Arts (01.2003), - By the sponsor Aéroport de Paris, to exhibit in the Gallery "Les Cimaises" at the West Terminal of Orly airport (08.2004).Then her work is noticed by "Crisolart Galleries" (Barcelona - Miami - Copenhagen) which select her to take part in the travelling Art Exhibition "Fairy Fair 2005" (08.2005 to 12.2005), within the great Festival Hans Christian Andersen, organized in DENMARK to celebrate the bicentenary of the Danish writer, famous all over the world ;Thanks to the same Gallery she exhibits her work at the International Fair of Contemporary Art "Marb' Art" in Marbella - SPAIN (09.2005). Thus supported, she leaves her native country and she is in contact with international talents. Each year she has the opportunity to show her work in different art fairs in France or at the Maison des Métiers d'Art in Ferrières (45). At the end of 2005, she successfully exhibits at the Biennial Festival of Contemporary Arts in Montargis (45). Then she joins the artists supported by the "Galerie Albane" in Nantes (44) (05. 2006), the artists of the "Galerie Sala d'Art" Puigcerdà in Spain (07.2006). ***This artist presents a very personal work, in which she masters - the fact is rare enough to be underlined the design and the realization of her frames, the coating of her canvas which produces a very original final effect, the creation, the painting, and finally the assemblage and even the framing of her works. Her painting is creative, more than anything else she chooses to side with Colour, Graphics, and close-ups. Against any form of pessimism, the cheerfulness and the vividness of life spring up from her work, sometimes with a hint of humour, irony, or even poetry.She defines herself as a "Symbolist" painter, and her work is a reflection on Thought. It is carried out thanks to canvas with bands, thus revealing to the one who looks at the painting several readings, various plans, depending on his point of view. According to the intensity or the direction of the light, these bands appear or disappear. They pay a tribute to BUREN of course, but above all these bands highlight the contrast between the verticality and the horizontality of the world which surrounds us, like an observation of the "yin" and the "yang". Always assembled in opposed directions, they show the dynamics created by the gathering of opinions, also stressing the importance of the Fragment for the Whole. Put together, the bands generate ruptures in the image and its possible visual readings. The colour and the composition, surprising but always mastered, are the main elements of the work of Sylvie LOHMANN. A vibratory effect is sometimes created by some chromatic combinations which give us the spectacle of a vivid work. Her painting is mainly figurative but within a very particular universe often filled with abstraction.The loops or the black line we can see recurrently in Sylvie LOHMANN's works, symbolize a form of introversion as well as seclusion against which we must fight. With regard to the five points scattered here and there all along the paintings, they seem to be a representation of the hand, the main vector of the Artists Thought. At last, lets consider the centring of each subject often cut by its framework - which is an integral part of the work always displayed, very discreetly though. This specific feature makes the subject exist out of the painting, according to the fancy of each spectator. Indeed, nothing, even a significant framework, could be an obstacle against a creative Thought...