Anne-Lise Coste

Anne-Lise Coste - Untitled

Técnica: Paper Airograph

Biografía del Artista: Anne-Lise Coste is a Swiss artist born in Marseille, France in 1973. Her work spans a variety of media, including painting, drawing, writing and performance. Coste has become known for her highly personal and expressive style, which combines abstraction with figurative and textual elements. Much of Coste's work focuses on the exploration of identity, language and politics. She often uses writing as an integral part of her artistic practice, incorporating poetic and political texts into her works. She has also explored themes such as memory, feminism and cultural criticism in her work. Coste has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the Kunsthaus Baselland in Switzerland, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Her work is in public and private collections around the world, including the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The Blue Water exhibition takes as its starting point a small installation consisting of two glass jars, one containing water and the other containing blue pigment mixed with water. Starting from blue, water - whether it comes from nature or from the domestic environment - is invariably represented by the same colour, which is none other than the one we associate with sea water, that is, the colour of the reflection of the sky on the sea surface. The drawings are a clear homage to Giorgio Morandi's still lifes. Here we see - once again - containers outlined and coloured in blue. Bottles, jars, glasses and vases follow one another in this work, like a return to the classic still life, to the origins, in a clear parallel to the return to the French countryside that the artist has recently made. In this case, the silent atmosphere of the still lifes and the blue they contain are associated with health, tranquillity, understanding and maturity.