The Art of 'KINTSUGI'
Julie Hauer, a French artist specializing in abstract art, will be present at the launch of the exhibition titled 'Arts of Japan,' taking place on December 2nd at Galerie Cinq Dimensions.
Alongside Luc Legendre, they will take us on a journey to Asia, discovering popular Japanese art and artistic techniques.
Allow us to introduce Julie's works...
A former lawyer, Julie decided in 2012 to fully devote herself to art. She spent two years in Asia, learning about Japanese and Chinese aesthetics and internal arts, before conducting her own research, which led her to develop more personal mixed media techniques.
In her works on wood, sometimes in the form of circles or screens, the materials attract, repel, explode, or implode on the raw surface, conforming to its grooves that determine the paths taken by inks, pigments, and other fluids.
The painting is viewed as a living organism, with colors and shapes obeying their own internal logic, where randomness dominates.
These are chaotic metaphysical landscapes, born spontaneously from the movement and chemical reactions at play. The viewer is transported into the universe of the microcosm or, on the contrary, into interstellar spaces, as seen in the series titled Planets, where celestial bodies are immortalized in resin, giving them a diaphanous brilliance and depth.
Inspired by the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy and the art of kintsugi, other works from this entropic series feature scars that have been etched and filled with gold powder, paying tribute to Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, who championed an aesthetic of shadows. In this ink work, the focus is on the initial chaos and the celebration of darkness.
The KINTSUGI Technique**
'Kintsugi,' meaning 'golden joinery' in Japanese, is an ancient art used to restore broken porcelain and ceramics, not by hiding the cracks but by highlighting them with gold. It is an ode to imperfection and fragility, where the wounds and breaks ennoble the object, the artwork, and the spirit.
Excerpt from Julie Hauer's biography
