Dorothée Louise Recker

Coming from a family of horticulturists, french-german painter Dorothée Louise Recker grew up in the South of France, spending her childhood in the heart of mimosa plantations. Her Mediterranean origins deeply mark her identity and her artistic expression. Through her artistic approach she aims at rendering this territory of hers, be it the personal or the geographical one. Her pictorial language mixes these influences with a research centered around the notions of color and gesture: materiality or evanescence of the first, erasing or highlighting the second. The colored gradations, for example in the large scale oil paintings Célestes, suggest airspaces, absorbing the trace of the passage of the hand. But the void is always in tension with the density of the layers, the intensity of the saturation. The work with sand, as in her series Whitesands, Silent sands or Kissing the shore, explores an opposite materiality. While conveying a seaside and summery fantasy, sand refers us by its specificity to the notions of tangible and intangible, of disappearance, of elusiveness. Through the variations of materials and media, Recker seeks the continuity of a universe, that she wants as immersive for the viewer as is for her the perception of the world around her.

Submitted by Alfa Gallery