About the artwork
This black-and-white work features a cluster of dismembered skeletons in the center of the composition. Created with a black ballpoint pen, the line is pressed and repeated as if to saturate the white paper. Lydie Arickx's dark and sometimes gloomy universe is clearly recognizable here. Fascinated by the body and its anatomy, she often employs a cadaverous plastic vocabulary that plunges the viewer into a nightmarish vision.
Expert opinion
While this drawing by Lydie Arickx is fully in keeping with her dark universe, it stands out for its use of a ballpoint pen and the choice of a small format.
About the artist
Born in Villecresnes (France) in 1954, Lydie Arickx is a French painter and sculptor. A graduate of the Ecole d'Art Graphique Penninghen (ESAG) in Paris, she began her career with the Jean Briance gallery, where an exhibition was dedicated to her in 1979. Her work was subsequently exported to Europe and across the Atlantic, where she exhibited with Francis Bacon. In 2021, a major exhibition was dedicated to her at the Château de Chambord. Now celebrated worldwide, many of her works can be found in major public collections such as the Centre Pompidou and the Palais de Tokyo.
“I've worked on cadavers and on living bodies too, with teachers who practiced vivisection admirably. I find that there's a poetic relationship between words diffused in flesh, it's a whole language.”
Additional info
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