GAS Gallery are delighted to announce the latest in the Dessees series by Delphine Lebourgeois. Deesse 5 will be available in a limited edition of 20 and purposefully made available in two sizes, the larger slightly in excess of A0 (900mm x 1210mm) and the smaller version in size A1 (594mm x 841mm)
Deesses 5 is a work of culmination for Delphine, drawing on previous themes of repetition explored in the work ‘Army’ and the raw sensuality and tenderness of works such as ‘Deesse 2’ and ‘Deesse 4’. Delphine turns repeating patterns on their heads, breaking and entwining small intricacies, reuniting variations and creating a common flow or theme to the image in it’s entirety.
The image combines partially visible caressing bodies, women in flowing dresses with hair entangled around their lovers, fingertips gently touching and lips parted, they are lost in their individual moments, as limbs create a delicate graphic ‘lace’ of colour and outlines. “Aquatique” helmets on the men suggest they are sailors, enjoying last moments with their women before departing to an unknown land. Exploration of the human body and also the greater world link in this image with Delphine citing Ile de la Possession and Ile de L’Est, two French administered uninhabited islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, renowned for undulating landscapes and deep valleys. The islands’ physical form are mirrored in the large encompassing female nudes, which are inspired by an anonymous photographic classical study c1900.
Delphine maintains that engaging an audience’s attention is something that drives her to create her work to entice with colour and pattern then capture and draw their eye in with minute quirky details which often seem to reveal themselves as new and exciting on every viewing.
Delphine’s unique ability to cross reference and draw together her fascination with reuniting the ornamental and the conceptual is, we believe at GAS, her winning formula. This approach to her creative process allows her to produce works that are not just one or the other but both beautifully ornate, decorative and formed with graphic pattern that almost refuses to repeat and comes alive with emotion and rebellion.
We will be showing the smaller version of Deesse 5 at our stand A2 at the Affordable Art Fair Bristol, and both versions in our week show at the Frameless Gallery, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1 from 11-16 June. Please visit our Facebook and Twitter pages for updates. Viewings by appointment at our Kennington studio. Contact us for further details: Art@GASART.co.uk + 44(0) 203 627 2350
