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march 16th to 21th, 2024, Les origines de la vie, Association Métamorphoses, Espace Michel Frérot, Thaon (Normandie, France)
november 15th (2024) to january 10th 2025, Réalité art actuel in Pré-Bocage Normand "Rétrospective 2014/2024", Micro-folie, Maison citoyenne et Médiathèque de Caumont-sur-Aure
Drop the masks
Drop the masks is a visual installation comprising two paintings of 130x97 cm (51'x38'inch) and a modular box created by a duo of artists. I will make this box in duo with the painter Patrick Thomé.
This series is inspired by a quote from the poet Jean Cocteau: "I am a lie that always tells the truth".
The paintings Persona 1 (Perseus and the Head of Medusa) and Persona 2 (The Young Girl and Death) question our relationship to theatre, speech and personality. Who are we really?
The young girl and death, 130x97cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022
Preparatory sketch for Perseus and Gorgon
Preparatory sketch forThe girl and death
Léna H. coms is one of the 8 artists in the exhibition Bas les Masques;.
Demonstration PBI Normandy, Reality current art on an idea of Martine Baransky, Historian of art.
Opening Friday, November 4 from 5 p.m. at the old school in Tournay-sur-Odon.
Val d'Arry: Tournay-sur-Odon, (former school) from November 5 to 13, 2022.
Permanence of artists on weekends and by appointment during the week.
Then in Caumont-sur-Aure in December and January 2023 in the Micro-Folie.
Preparatory sketch for
The Ball of Masks
You have to lie! You all have to lie, lie constantly and love to lie and believe that you are not lying. You have to lie to yourself. It's all there! Me, I don't lie to myself. Me I have the frankness to confess to myself that I am lying, that I am a liar. You, you are cowards. You listened to me, you said to yourself! what a poor fellow! And you took advantage of my frankness to conceal your lies. I have you! Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, why I told you that I was lying, that I liked lying? It was not true. It was only to lure you into a trap and to I don't lie. I never lie. I hate lies and lies hate me. I only lied to tell you that I was lying. […] A liar! Me? Deep down, I don't know anymore. I'm confused. What a funny time. Am I a liar? I ask you? I'm more of a lie. A lie that always tells the truth.
Excerpt from the monologue The Liar written by Jean Cocteau for Jean Marais
DOWN THE MASKS!
Lecture by Martine Baransky, art historian
Saturday November 12, 2022 at 2:30 p.m.
Former school of Tournay sur Odon
Municipality of Val d'Arry (locality Villodon)
(A84 motorway exit 45 Noyers-Bocage)
The image, the Secret
Cover, Discover, Discover yourself.
Does this work hold a secret?
The image in painting, cinema or literature can hide at the same time as it exposes. The artist then asks us, the spectator, to discover what he has masked by using games, symbols, lures or others... Let us discover ourselves creators of revealed enigmas ; by looking in detail at some great pictorial and cinematographic works .
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