Opening: samedi 21 mars, de 15h à 18h 
Curator: Rémi Enguehard 

Teun Hocks from the Frac Île-de-France collection and Aurore Pallet. 

Aurore Pallet’s paintings consist of fragments of images screen-printed in oil paint onto translucent canvases. These images are gathered from flea markets, old magazines, or the internet. They feature romantic motifs (ruins, geological or atmospheric phenomena) or relate to the notion of apparition (references to Renaissance paintings, screenshots from conspiracy theory websites…). The saturation of colors, the interplay of transparency and opacity, and the alteration of the original images mean that these works are initially perceived as abstract paintings. But little by little, the play of light and close observation allow certain image fragments to be recognized, as when one suddenly remembers something.

As part of this new volume of Temps d’art, the public is invited to perform a similar gesture using stencils that echo, among other things, the police anecdote of the 1965 theft of a Pierre Bonnard painting from the Menier collection—the former owners of the château that preceded the museum. On three large canvases prepared by the artist, visitors can complete the painting by adding stenciled elements in a pre-selected color palette. The layering of images, created collectively, thus produces chromatic relationships and interactions with light that play with the viewers’ perception.

An exhibition presented by the Frac Île-de-France as part of its program Le Syndrome de Bonnard, ou l’impermanence des œuvres.   

Château de Rentilly Parc culturel de Rentilly — Michel Chartier 1 rue de l’Étang — 77600 Bussy-Saint-Martin

Hours:
Wednesdays and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Sundays from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Free admission.