champion metadier

For her solo exhibition at la Réserve, Champion Métadier will presente the 18 paintings from the Timetrackers series and a body of 6 large sketchs.

“The title of the exhibition, Timetrackers, posits a certain « science fiction » narrative to this series of work. But instead of launching the viewer into any number of hyper-kinetic visions of the future, these paintings rather envelop us, drawing the viewer backwards, inwards, almost to the very instant when « the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. » In this first verse of the genesis of Champion Métadier’s universe, elemental forms of vivid, candy colored, acid shapes emerge from and move languidly over the face of, what the artist calls, « The Void of Light », an ultra white background that gives the paintings an almost hallucinogenic or holographic quality.

The tension in the paintings lies in the mutability of Champion Métadier’s visual solutions, which at one time seem to belong to one visual universe and, at the same time, posit contrary signification. There is no answer, no absolute to be found, never one final solution possible given such multiple choices of interpretation. These are paintings of a world of paradox and enigma, fable and riddle, in sort, our world. In looking at this body of work, we are reminded that for all our vaunted reason, theories and knowledge, we are still but puzzled and amazed children, in over our heads. “

Champion Métatadier has shown the Timetrackers series in recent solo shows at the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Nancy (France) and at Chelsea Art Museum in New York in 2006. Her new solo show will take place at the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain of Nice in 2007.

-Extract from the press release of the exhibition of Champion Métadier at the Chelsea Art Museum, 2006.

Isabelle Champion-Metadier
Ort: La réserve, Pacy sur Eure