Le Coucou au Fond des Bois
La disproportion des formes d'arbres et des sous-bois sombres donne aux sites de la nature représentés par Cristina Rodriguez, une sorte de paix d'intérieur, mais aussi une vision de la nature secrète, traversée par une lancinante inquiétude. Ce qui semble familier dans cette forêt s'élève dans une féerie de bleus et de bruns réinventés sur un mode mineur ; et si les troncs et les rameaux paraissent s'unir dans une paix de jardin, ici planent une magie et un trouble. L’œuvre est passionnée, et toujours un peu troublante, énigmatique. Voilà pourquoi le mystère d'une apparition, pareil à quelque animal surgi des mailles des lianes, ou tiré des cris incessants de la forêt humide, apporte tout à coup sa présence stridente. Le coucou jaune, accent violent, est venu soudain plaquer ici sa forme comme un éclair. Il coexiste avec la vive poussée des écorces droites, avec le ciel végétal fait de voiles retombées, et recrée un monde adouci où subsiste une angoisse. L'artiste le sait : vrai peintre d'un silence révélateur du trouble, elle paraît parfois s'installer dans les poses calmes d'un Braque, mais aussi attirer des fragments de comète venus de Klee, des arpèges surprenants d' harmonie colorée et intensément spirituelle de Kandinsky – des peintres qu'elle cite volontiers. Si le cadre est rendu domestique, familier, il découvre un environnement saturé de mystères et de dangers : dans cette paix qui semble faite pour une humanité proche, ce que veut l'artiste, c'est peindre pour adoucir la souffrance du monde.
C'est le don d'une vie plus proche, où pierres et fleurs sont embuées d'une brume qui diffuse un sentiment de sûreté en évitant tous les chemins périlleux. L'artiste représente un monde redevenu magique où le calme est possible, où la draperie des espaces peints crée une ambiance propice à la confiance. Au-delà des turbulences naturelles dont la violence est signifiée, elle fait appel à une humanité proche, réconciliée, et guérie des malédictions qui la frappent – avec le regard de l'Enfance qui sonde les apparences, elle sait reconstruire et conserver intact le rayonnement familier de toute apparition.
Eric Levergeois
Philosophe
2015
The Cuckoo in the Depths of the of the Woods
Translated by Dr. Ariane Galy (2024)
Translated by Dr. Ariane Galy (2024)
The disproportionate appearance of arboreal shapes and of dark forest floors gives the natural landscapes represented by Cristina Rodriguez a kind of inner peace, but also a view on a hidden nature speared by a stabbing unease. What seems familiar in this forest evolves into a fairytale of blues and browns reinvented on a muted scale: and if the trunks and vines seem to unite in a garden-like peacefulness, here they are riding a wave of magic and disquiet.
The work is passionate and always a little troubling, enigmatic. This is why the mystery of an apparition, such as an animal springing up from the entangled creepers, or the incessant cries of the humid forest, suddenly makes its shrill presence known. The yellow cuckoo, an intense explosion of colour, has all of a sudden come to display himself here like a flash of lightening. He coexists with the dynamic growth of the straight reeds, with the vegetal sky shrouded in a descending veil, representing a softened world where anguish yet still subsists. The artist knows it: a true painter of a silence that is revelatory of an unease, she seems to sometimes adopt the calm stances of a Braque while also attracting the fragments of comets from a Klee, the surprising arpeggios of the colour harmonies and intense spirituality of a Kandinsky – painters that she is happy to reference. If the image becomes tame and familiar, it also triggers the discovery of an environment saturated with mystery and danger: in this harmony, seemingly created for a compassionate humankind, the artist is seeking to paint in order to soothe our suffering world.
She is gifting us a more benevolent life, where stones and flowers are imbued of a mist that diffuses a feeling of safety by avoiding all perilous paths. The artist displays a world that is magical once again, where peace is possible, where the veil of painted spaces creates an atmosphere that inspires confidence. Beyond the innate turbulence of the natural world, whose violence is acknowledged, she calls for a loving and reconciled humankind, one that is healed from the maledictions that have befallen it – with the eye of a child who surveys the landscape, she knows how to reconstruct and leave intact the familiar glow of all apparitions.
The work is passionate and always a little troubling, enigmatic. This is why the mystery of an apparition, such as an animal springing up from the entangled creepers, or the incessant cries of the humid forest, suddenly makes its shrill presence known. The yellow cuckoo, an intense explosion of colour, has all of a sudden come to display himself here like a flash of lightening. He coexists with the dynamic growth of the straight reeds, with the vegetal sky shrouded in a descending veil, representing a softened world where anguish yet still subsists. The artist knows it: a true painter of a silence that is revelatory of an unease, she seems to sometimes adopt the calm stances of a Braque while also attracting the fragments of comets from a Klee, the surprising arpeggios of the colour harmonies and intense spirituality of a Kandinsky – painters that she is happy to reference. If the image becomes tame and familiar, it also triggers the discovery of an environment saturated with mystery and danger: in this harmony, seemingly created for a compassionate humankind, the artist is seeking to paint in order to soothe our suffering world.
She is gifting us a more benevolent life, where stones and flowers are imbued of a mist that diffuses a feeling of safety by avoiding all perilous paths. The artist displays a world that is magical once again, where peace is possible, where the veil of painted spaces creates an atmosphere that inspires confidence. Beyond the innate turbulence of the natural world, whose violence is acknowledged, she calls for a loving and reconciled humankind, one that is healed from the maledictions that have befallen it – with the eye of a child who surveys the landscape, she knows how to reconstruct and leave intact the familiar glow of all apparitions.
Eric Levergeois
Philosopher
2015