Pintar con todo el cuerpo. Entrevista a Fabienne Verdier

Abstract

Fabienne Verdier, a contemporary French artist, has created a unique gestural painting style that fuses Eastern and Western art. Her journey began on the banks of the Seine, on the barge her father had moored in front of the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. After studying art in Toulouse, she spent ten years in China to train in Taoist painting. She learnt to seek the essence of things and to express it in a single brushstroke. On her return, she integrated these teachings into the Western tradition of abstract expressionism. She enlarged the formats and increased the gesture of the brush to her whole body. This quest for total expressivity led her to invent absolutely innovative tools such as a giant brush, without a handle, suspended from the ceiling, to which she grafted a bicycle handlebar, allowing her to paint her large canvases lightly and quickly, engaging in an expressive struggle involving the whole body. In this interview she reveals her perpetual philosophical and artistic quest, her encounters with neuroscience, astrophysics, linguistics and her numerous creative projects, up to her latest exhibition dedicated to the stars, the mystery of the universe and the perpetual renewal of life.