appy art gallery

Her work is mingling sense with nonsense, real words with imaginative ones, colors and « noncolors ».
It expresses an unreal life where the mind is in a contemplative state.
It’s like a magic alchimy between today’s life and a special vision of it… through little special moments : a big laugh, a big novel, a big friend, a little smile, a little book, a little girl….
Anything, any word, any meeting can give birth to a painting…

"Bitumen pressed by an interminable wave masked and singing, a hullabaloo of colors drained by fifres, drums and coppers, here is the Carnival of Dunkirk, the transitory caricature of our lives. It was necessary to dare to idealize the grotesque one; Corine Pagny made it, a barbed wire as a brush to scratch us, us to play in load, such one of its carnavaleux in full rejoicing. Its characters sharp, sudden, are unchained, whirling and are dishevelled, tragically parodic: here is thus an album of family, a flight of portrait-load, mirrors which reflect what we let us be: irremediable sanctimonious hypocrites perpetuating the human saraband. "Grimons" us our pouts, which the cake-walk begins!"

Nicole Pfund speaks to the eyes of adults with the language of childhood, one of fairy tale, poetry and dreams. She brings to life tall animals headed figures both elegant and sad. Nicole has made animals musicians of hybrid beeing who seems to play a nostalgic, beautiful music for her alone.The one black stain on these pale paintings, which are through washed by the rain of oblivion, is the strangely human look of these musicians which tells us unfullfilled dreams and of solitude, of hidden suffering and of a suspended time. Nicole's characters are the mirrors of the human condition. They are the reflections of our frailty and also for our strenghts. They play in colours, a discrete quiet music of the passing time and of love which is yet to come.