PRESS, TEXTS
Anna
Kirkpatrick opens her “Armoires”
American painter Anna Kirkpatrick has chosen
for many years now to reside in Autun. She pursues the deepening of an entirely
personal expression that aims, with great humbleness of means, to reveal
her emotions, to suggest them without ever being aggressive, neither with
colour nor form.
She currently exhibits recent work, under the title Slow Works, at
LR Communicability. This slowness is full of an interior richness that grows
out of taking time to contemplate the old buildings of the medieval quarter where
she lives, steeped in the atmosphere of lopsided facades and poetic moss covered
rooftops. Far from regretting the ancient past, she peacefully recreates it in
pictorial objects that mingle worn, aged wood, pigments for faded gentle colours,
and layered sewn cloth.
Going uphill toward the Cathedral—and best in the evening--one discovers,
illuminated in the two windows that form the angle of the petite rue Chauchien
and rue Maréchaux, a large canvas of pale hues. Like a sheet, well-worn
from use, mended, strewn with numbers and undecipherable words it recounts an
enigmatic life.
And the Armoires, painted sculptures of modest appearance, hesitate
to reveal their mysterious contents. Exhibition until 23 August. Visible at night.
Caption under two chests:
Chests that grow taller to resemble columns from which secrets escape.
Caption under portrait in the studio:
Anna Kirkpatrick unites a modern sensibility with influences drawn
from contact with primitive art.