Yvonne BEHNKE

COURSE and ARTISTIC APPROACH

 

Born in 1967 in Frankfurt, Germany

Lives and works in Meudon, France

As a painter, Yvonne Behnke draws her inspiration from the search for the effects of movement and transparency.

His fascinating works transport us with power and delicacy into mysterious worlds that we think we recognize.

 

The infinitely small calls to mind the infinitely large and immediately invites us to meditate in another dimension.

 

Against backgrounds of deep hues, the artist will deposit, one after the other, elements of diluted white paint and submit them, with infinite patience, to the natural forces of the universe.

Dried at an angle or flat, evaporated or warmed by infrared light, sometimes blown on, each element comes to life and occupies a space on the canvas under the effects of gravity or the centrifugal force of a Chinese brush. The gesture is precise, slow, the movement repeated hundreds of times.

 

Bubbles, meteorites, beads from necklaces?

Are we in the cosmos or under the seas, in what dimensions? We don't know, we are delightfully lost somewhere, in the marvelous.

 

" While the painter marvels at the never fully premeditated expansion of form, the canvas itself testifies to a body that has achieved equilibrium. Ardently scrutinizing the diversity of combinations, Yvonne Behnke probes the infinity of possibilities . "

Marie-Laure Desjardins (excerpt), art critic

 

TECHNIQUE

Diluted acrylic on canvas