The making of a painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbKZGQkJXfw
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"[Translation] “Francesca Trop defends multiple causes in her signature works — be they prints, monotypes, collages or paintings.. […] A human and social cause in her impressive figures of lawyers and magistrates conferring in the quasi-religious spaces of the courtroom and legal antechambers, the cause of nature and pure joy in her seascapes stretching into endless vistas or her wild horses depicted in energetic colour, as in so many other subjects.
Her "scenes from the bar” express so many tensions, so much intriguing or repellent energy — in the almost magnetic meaning of the word — between the protagonists in a case. What case? The deliberately replicated spaces are made dynamic by a free and inventive perspective that evokes the agonizing interiors of Piranesi.
Colour, the sense of unity in light, the contained gesture, here free, there restrained, the surprise and acceptance of the accidental, the rare sense of pictorial structure and taste for composition — so many parameters that circumscribe an authentic artist, but do not play here solely for themselves, but at the service of an expressive cause, the cause of relationships, rapprochements, distancings, that Francesca loves to sum up in the term of solitude.
Let us accept that term, but let me be the witness: when we look at her paintings, we feel that we are not alone.”
Daniel Lacomme
Professor, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Author of the L’Atelier Vivant Collection, published by Bordas
January 10, 2018
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"[Translation] “Francesca Trop defends multiple causes in her signature works — be they prints, monotypes, collages or paintings.. […] A human and social cause in her impressive figures of lawyers and magistrates conferring in the quasi-religious spaces of the courtroom and legal antechambers, the cause of nature and pure joy in her seascapes stretching into endless vistas or her wild horses depicted in energetic colour, as in so many other subjects.
Her "scenes from the bar” express so many tensions, so much intriguing or repellent energy — in the almost magnetic meaning of the word — between the protagonists in a case. What case? The deliberately replicated spaces are made dynamic by a free and inventive perspective that evokes the agonizing interiors of Piranesi.
Colour, the sense of unity in light, the contained gesture, here free, there restrained, the surprise and acceptance of the accidental, the rare sense of pictorial structure and taste for composition — so many parameters that circumscribe an authentic artist, but do not play here solely for themselves, but at the service of an expressive cause, the cause of relationships, rapprochements, distancings, that Francesca loves to sum up in the term of solitude.
Let us accept that term, but let me be the witness: when we look at her paintings, we feel that we are not alone.”
Daniel Lacomme
Professor, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Author of the L’Atelier Vivant Collection, published by Bordas
January 10, 2018
.