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Empreintes (2025) Painting by Sophie Dumont

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Avec Empreintes Littéraires, Sophie Dumont propose une réflexion poignante sur la mémoire collective et la persistance des livres dans l’histoire humaine. Cette composition abstraite, élaborée à partir de techniques mixtes combinant peinture, collage, et arrachage, transcende la simple représentation visuelle pour devenir un manifeste artistique sur [...]
Avec Empreintes Littéraires, Sophie Dumont propose une réflexion poignante sur la mémoire collective et la persistance des livres dans l’histoire humaine. Cette composition abstraite, élaborée à partir de techniques mixtes combinant peinture, collage, et arrachage, transcende la simple représentation visuelle pour devenir un manifeste artistique sur la nécessité de préserver le patrimoine intellectuel.

Une technique innovante au service de la mémoire
Le processus de création, où le tissu est collé, peint, puis arraché pour ne laisser que son empreinte, confère à l’œuvre une matérialité saisissante. Chaque trace, à la fois délicate et fragmentaire, évoque la disparition progressive des objets physiques, tout en affirmant leur existence résiduelle à travers leurs empreintes. Ce procédé symbolise la fragilité des livres en tant qu’objets matériels, mais également leur capacité à imprégner durablement l’histoire et la pensée collective.

Une palette évocatrice
La dominance des bleus, allant des nuances claires et éthérées aux tons profonds et intenses, crée une atmosphère contemplative et intemporelle. Ces bleus, associés à la réflexion et à la spiritualité, renforcent l’idée d’une transmission immatérielle des connaissances. Le fond beige et blanc cassé, doux et neutre, agit comme un silencieux, rappelant la neutralité du papier sur lequel les histoires s’inscrivent.

Une composition rythmée et équilibrée
L’organisation de la toile en blocs irréguliers, évoquant des livres alignés ou empilés, confère un rythme visuel à l’œuvre. Chaque empreinte, bien que distincte, semble dialoguer avec les autres, formant une bibliothèque abstraite où chaque élément porte une voix unique. L’absence de détails figuratifs laisse une grande place à l’interprétation, invitant le spectateur à projeter ses propres souvenirs et lectures.

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Sophie Dumont is a contemporary French painter. Her landscapes evolves in modulations with blurred contours, to suggest volumes more than to draw a precise motif. The palette, in often more muted tones, suggests [...]

Sophie Dumont is a contemporary French painter. Her landscapes evolves in modulations with blurred contours, to suggest volumes more than to draw a precise motif. The palette, in often more muted tones, suggests more than it imposes a resembling construction. The freedom of the artist s that of the spectator, invited, whatever the theme, to enter the canvas to bring his interpretation and let himself be invaded by his own emotions. The multiple layers of matter patiently elaborate the transparencies from which the lights emerge. 

Certain paintings can evoke the influence of Nicolas de Staël by their graphic simplicity, and tend by their fluidity, towards a lyrical abstraction which erases the visible appearances of reality. The variations of black, gray and white, for example, concentrate all the energy contained in nature, in a play of perspectives and lights where the line fades to the benefit of the general atmosphere of the canvas. But at the same time the style follows a continuous evolution which will be expressed later in a series on libraries, where the book appears more as an evocation of a culture than as an everyday object. 

Sophie Dumont was born in 1964, in Paris. Her works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally.


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