ART
Oda Jaune |
Written 30 January |
Monday 08 November, 10:00Galerie Daniel Templon, 75003 [map]Oda Jaune
After the success of her first show last year,
Oda Jaune returns with a major exhibition of her work at Galerie Templon.
Recently having turned thirty, the Bulgarian artist has now set up home in Paris, a city which echoes her own poetic and tormented universe. Under the title Once in a Blue Moon, her exhibition includes twenty-odd works that straddle the space between surrealism and expressionism, and whose feigned naivety is often profoundly disturbing.
Deformed pin-ups, drowned children, nightmarish bridal couples… her paintings provide us with troubling scenes of intermingled gentleness and violence. They speak of a total lack of inhibition and demand that same self-abandonment from the viewer. In the words of the artist: “I can perhaps salve the viewer’s fear … I try to extract what is good, beautiful or even funny from my subjects, laden as they are with fear or prejudice.”
Born in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in 1979, Oda Jaune studied under the painter Jörg Immendorff at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts; she has lived in Paris since 2008.
