Natascha Mehlhop Gallery

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Manon Bara - Urs

Manon Bara

Trop d'amour

17/09/09 – 07/11/09

Manon Bara’s oeuvre is both painting and about painting. It is as if she were an actor who talks in character and then stands at the side and comments on the play.Bara's canvases are large in scale; spare in composition and extremely colourful in palette, with the paint applied with powerful gestures. She matches impressive paint-handling with a dose of purposely humble de-skilling, as beautifully demonstrated in her ‘Cathedral Mountain’ series where she dominantly applied the paint with her fingers and let the paint drop freely ...

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