Sandrine Mahéo - Structures d’apparaître

Discovering the work of French artist Sandrine Mahéo means “immersing oneself in a wealth of colors that constantly raises questions and subtly reveals the question of form in painting on several aesthetic levels (...) without necessarily questioning the canvas as such, without necessarily negating the gesture and without making it the be-all and end-all of painting.” Looking for historical “resonances, the closest connection is to be seen in the American Color Field movement, whose spiritualist, contemplative and purely formalist inspiration reached its peak in the 1960s. (...) And so Maheo immerses us in large pieces detached from a fresco, as it were, here a fragment of Tiepolo's sky, there a piece of gray wall, which on closer inspection turn out to be a network of micro-spots or finely speckled colors.” Text: Jean-Francois Desserre

Sandrine Mahéo (born 1974) holds a National Diploma of Fine Arts and a Higher National Diploma for Artistic Expression from the College of Fine Arts, Montpellier/France. Her work has been shown in art institutions and galleries such as: Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris; Axel Obiger, Berlin, Carré Saint-Anne, Montpellier, Art Center Vallon du Villaret, Bagnol-les-Bains a.o.