HCMC – Exhibition “Melody at the End of Autumn”

Opening: Sat 07 Jan, 10 am
Exhibition: 07 – 20 Jan 2011
Tu Do Gallery

From Tu do Gallery:

You are invited to a lacquer painting exhibition of artist Michelle Pontie.

Artist’s statement

“To me, reaching back to the oriental thought, as closely as possible, is an imperious necessity. The coexistence of opposites grounds on Yin and Yang philosophy. Creating, with the dynamics of unconscious processes it includes, drives me for sure on a pathway from matter to infinity. My direct experience and deep personal resources drive me to question the body-spirit relationship, an inseparable and eternal duality.  My work is based on, boosted by and revealed through a seeking poise between matt and shiny, conscious reality and unconscious freedom, body and spirit, matter and energy”.

Art criticism about artist

One distinctive feature about Michelle Pontie’s art works is that they highly integrate both shares  of her Vietnamese /  European cultural heritage. Indeed, once confronting their nature and quality, one becomes aware that they do not deal with a mere amount of “know-a-lot capital”. Here is abstraction of a minute and refined species, spreading out a meditative kind of magic, operating salutary  bewitching effects in a quiet, compelling way. The all process seems to spring from a long forgotten wisdom, possibly rooted back in far remote historical times when East and West used to be very close neighbors.

Translated from French article in “Revue du Tarn”, Paul VIRES.