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Aleksandra Zec

Cotonou, Bénin - Française

"Drawing is everywhere, you draw in three dimensions, you draw with colours. We could say that everything is just drawing."
Alberto Giacometti 1962

The colour’s timelessness, its permanence to light, structured contrasts by design, all in a monochromia of ultramarine blue, have been the cornerstones of my artistic practice for twenty-five years. 
The first raw pigment I encountered is my grandfather’s one, in his shipyard in Brittany.  I saw him using it to draw lines on the hull, the future waterline of the wooden boats he was building. Before discovering those from Giotto, Matisse, Majorelle, Klein (…) the pigment on the wood, luminous, powdery, remains unforgettable from a childhood where it seemed magical.
This kind of blue has the property to become iridescent at dawn and dusk, also of capturing and absorbing light without dying under the full sun which does not beat it down.  Its density seeming rather reinforced. 
Colour is confronted with the abstraction of forms, in a treatment of materials that borrows from sculpture, leaning on Arte Povera, the ancient parietal arts as well as that of the ancient kingdoms of Dahomey (in Benin, place of years of artistic residencies where I found this same pigment in the rituals of voodoo ceremonies). 
Shapes composed by hand, without preparatory sketches, which seem to be like in a cartouche and oil painted. Their irregular asperities become as many random edges as possible to their projected shadows. According to the exposure or a moving, they create the conditions of a three-dimensional chiaroscuro with multiple optical effects. The suggestive power of abstraction will almost inevitably invoke an image, like reminiscences, in the mind of the viewer.

In addition to an acrylic medium, pigments and linseed oil, the works are made of mineral materials, mainly sea sand, never sieved, or rinsed (salt inside!). Also, of vegetal origin (barks, raffia, papyrus, dried flowers, branches, grasses, papers, …). More recently plastic (such as surgical masks), or old worn clothes, or plants that I have seen grow.
Recycled materials seem to have disappeared under the multiple layers of paint applied exclusively with a brush. Yet the works are always linked to their mineral, vegetal, oceanic natures, there without getting rid of a more intimate memorial meaning.


Exhibitions in France, Germany, Benin...
Private collections in Europe, Africa, Asia.

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Ses œuvres

"2022 #12" Technique mixte sur toile 80 x 80 x 3 cm 2 860 EUR Ma sélection	"2O22 on paper n°2" Technique mixte sur papier 60 x 60 x 0 cm 650 EUR Ma sélection	"2017 Bénin #1" Technique mixte sur papier 71 x 50 x 0 cm 715 EUR Ma sélection
"2017 Bénin #6" Technique mixte sur papier 97 x 60 x 0 cm 1 105 EUR Ma sélection	"2021 #20 Agapanthus" Technique mixte sur toile 30 x 30 x 4 cm 780 EUR Ma sélection	"Sans Titre 6" Technique mixte sur toile 80 x 80 x 3 cm 1 300 EUR Ma sélection