Fictions flowers

Born in 1970, Caroline Rennequin develops a multidisciplinary practice where the relationship between craftsmanship, popular culture, non-Western art and contemporary art hold a special place. Three years ago, in 2020, Caroline Rennequin produced a series of 301 gouaches of identical format on handmade Indian cotton paper, 301 variations around the theme and the universal motif of the flower. Both similar and unique, each resembles the other and is distinguished by its composition and the combination of its colors. With this series, inspired by the folk art and cartoons of her childhood, Caroline Rennequin confirms her talents as a colorist, her ability to renew herself through repetition and to bring out the sensitive. Under his brush, the flowers come to life. “I had finally just expressed all the empathy I felt for nature,” the artist explains. Obsessive and playful, the series marks the beginning of a new period in his career, which began in the mid-1990s when he graduated from the Arts Décoratifs de Paris, and gives him increased visibility. "Flowers" will be partly shown in the monographic exhibition "Metamorphoses, 1997-2022" dedicated to him by the Jean Fournier gallery in Paris at the end of 2022, alongside recent and older works - paintings and volumes - where fictional and mutating nature by Caroline Rennequin comes into its own and invites new and exciting perspectives.