This Parisian artist in search of authenticity has set up her studio near the shore of the Bay of Islands in order to create in all tranquillity for her permanent galleries.
RACHEL BERGERET
Artist
Rachel Bergeret began her career as a fashion designer in 2003.
She created her heroine in 2009 based on her first designer silhouettes. A graceful, ultra-feminized and deceptively ingenuous muse: La Midinette. An icon of the Paris of yesteryear whose origins lie in the first demands of the female workers in the haute couture workshops.
Brought up in the luxury of Paris, Rachel Bergeret uses painting as her main means of expression within this turbulent capital. Her work maintains a paradox between her admiration for beautiful things and a certain derision for consumer society. The eye is then surprised by the accumulation of precious details composed of layers of resin and gold leaf.
Her old-fashioned and frivolous muse in the background of her pictorial compositions is adorned with all sorts of recycled luxury packaging with wonder. Like a storyteller, she likes to give a second life to these noble packaging materials in order to tell her own story of haute couture and its prestigious catwalks.
The demands of her ensemble form a visual signature specific to the artist that makes her work so unique.
Rachel Bergeret likes to connote her paintings with a certain naivety, a form of utopianism of her inner world that she cultivates as an about-face to reality. Mystical, poetic, frivolous, provocative, ironic, ingenuous, artificial, surreal, her work is inspired by great signatures. The wavy hair of the Pre-Raphaelites, the opulence of Gustav Klimt, the audacity of Toulouse Lautrec and the modernity of Edmond Kiraz are rooted in her childlike imagination.
It takes a second reading beyond the aesthetic abundance to understand the real nature of her discourse and her lifelong quest:
THE FREEDOM OF BEING
The artist questions her visitor on the role of today's woman: what is her place and her action in a world where values are bought? Is her apparent fragility sometimes only a screen for her will to be and to exist?
These questions, which are the filigree of her works, echo the debates on the current search for parity in paradox to this Parisian woman who silently still dreams of a Prince Charming; concerns that are proposed to us more than imposed, in the light of the certain evolution of views on the condition of the living female.
Artist
Rachel Bergeret began her career as a fashion designer in 2003.
She created her heroine in 2009 based on her first designer silhouettes. A graceful, ultra-feminized and deceptively ingenuous muse: La Midinette. An icon of the Paris of yesteryear whose origins lie in the first demands of the female workers in the haute couture workshops.
Brought up in the luxury of Paris, Rachel Bergeret uses painting as her main means of expression within this turbulent capital. Her work maintains a paradox between her admiration for beautiful things and a certain derision for consumer society. The eye is then surprised by the accumulation of precious details composed of layers of resin and gold leaf.
Her old-fashioned and frivolous muse in the background of her pictorial compositions is adorned with all sorts of recycled luxury packaging with wonder. Like a storyteller, she likes to give a second life to these noble packaging materials in order to tell her own story of haute couture and its prestigious catwalks.
The demands of her ensemble form a visual signature specific to the artist that makes her work so unique.
Rachel Bergeret likes to connote her paintings with a certain naivety, a form of utopianism of her inner world that she cultivates as an about-face to reality. Mystical, poetic, frivolous, provocative, ironic, ingenuous, artificial, surreal, her work is inspired by great signatures. The wavy hair of the Pre-Raphaelites, the opulence of Gustav Klimt, the audacity of Toulouse Lautrec and the modernity of Edmond Kiraz are rooted in her childlike imagination.
It takes a second reading beyond the aesthetic abundance to understand the real nature of her discourse and her lifelong quest:
THE FREEDOM OF BEING
The artist questions her visitor on the role of today's woman: what is her place and her action in a world where values are bought? Is her apparent fragility sometimes only a screen for her will to be and to exist?
These questions, which are the filigree of her works, echo the debates on the current search for parity in paradox to this Parisian woman who silently still dreams of a Prince Charming; concerns that are proposed to us more than imposed, in the light of the certain evolution of views on the condition of the living female.
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