LES MIKADOS

TEXT BY CAROLINE CANAULT

Edwige Leprin Defines Herself As An “abstractist Painter”; And Especially Not As An Artist. Its Expressive Touch Gives Primacy To à Color.

Everything For Her...Mikado - 2010 - 81 X 100 Cm

For A Demanding Exploration Of His Pictorial Space, His Canvas Is First Filled With A Flat Colored Area.  « If The Surface Is White Nothing Happens For Me, I Need Color For My Imagination To Work » Says The Artist. Then Stretched With A Knife Using Thin Layers Of Acrylic, Monochromes With Complex, More Or Less Precise Rectangular Contours Appear. These  Multi-colored Bands Assert Themselves Under New Lines At The Same Time. The Rich And Lively Palette.“ It’s The Harmony, The Association Of Colors And Their Transparencies That Interest Me” She Continues.

Light At The Service Of Abstract Expression

True Concentrates Of Modulated Rainbows, Edwige Leprin's Radiant Mikados Have An Atypical Luminous Force. The Light Is Enhanced By A Final Coat Of Italian Varnish Where The Light Is Enhanced. Surface Details Are Sparse. “I’like This Side Of It. Clean And Finished Flatness» She Says. This Flatness This Lively And Vibrant Work Testifies To His Gestural Technique, Almost Systematic, Carried Out In The Moment. An Enchanted Process Of Simplification Gesture Of Magnificent Density. Its Fertile, Quasi-automatic Practice Testifies To Work In Mechanical Series And Perfectly Mastered. Of The Colored Field.

The Painting Of’ Edwige Leprin Offers A Direct, Physical And Emotional Pictorial Approach. A Lyrical Abstraction Structured In A Grid, Represented By Her Mikados Which Could Be Books Placed On A Shelf, Like The Memories Of Albums Of Sensations That She Would Have Wanted To Freeze. His Mikados Could Be The Steps Of A Staircase Leading Towards The Enigmatic Destiny Of Life. And Then, The Mystery Giving Way To Another, More Alienated Vision, We Could See The Bars Of A Cell, Perhaps That Of A “self” Inside Prisoner. “ I Approached The Abstract After Having Done Figurative Work For Many Years. I No Longer Had Fun. I Then Discovered Nicolas De Staël. His Work And His Journey As A Man Captivated Me. Even Though With His Success And His Frenzied Orders, He Fell Into Disrepair. Severe; Or I Don't Want To Go; Loss Of Freedom And Suicide. » The Signature Of Edwige Leprin Is A Desire To Pure And Free Expression To Allow Us To Grasp Fragments Of Reality... Without Ever Succeeding.

Pleasure - Mikado - 2010 - 60 X 80 Cm

Spirituality Of Others

Mikados Are A Range Of Expressions Consistent With His Aspirations Of The Moment, A Window Into His Soul Which Tends Towards Magic And Ecstasy. Edwige Leprin Achieves A Particularly Sensitive Spiritual Dimension, A Meditative Way Of Painting Close To Colorfield Painting, Expressed By Mark Rohtko, Barnett Newman And Even Clyfford Still.

Beyond "I Need To Know What The Viewer Feels. Sometimes The Magic Of An Encounter And The Interest That My Work Can Arouse Gives Me The Strength To Continue. If I Manage, Through Painting, To Achieve My Goals. Give Pleasure Then çit's Worth Pursuing! » Without Weariness, With An Expansive Energy Constantly Renewed, His Expressive And Passionate Touch Is Expressed. We Are Absorbed In A Relationship Of Intimacy, Like A Sentimental Exchange With Each Other. Both Personal And Universal.

Edwige Leprin Lives And Works In Provence