I for long been fascinated by this "Drunkenness angels" without knowing the original image recorded in a hurry and author whose name was lost with all hands in the mazes of the net.
same time, and without thinking to make a comparison, I kept remembering the long miniature coaster, both comical and magical, with extraordinary finesse, as seen in the 80 at an exhibition in Strasbourg, but without being able to find the author ... Double
fascination, one day I discovered that a single person was hiding behind these two images, the angels and the recollection.
During his years in Strasbourg, while she was cashier of cinema, Petra Werle developed a passion for bread of bread she has continued to knead, knead, narrow in the extreme, the fingertips and the relative silence and the smallness of his box, to take extraordinary and tiny statuettes resembling cheeky clowns, sometimes embellished with a touch of gouache and never more than a few centimeters.
When is a child, it uncovers randomly from a reverie, on the skin veined with tree trunks or stone, sometimes even amid gray or blue tracery of some linoleum, small things that give a glimpse of a contorted mind to matter, a host of strange and mysterious characters, and other chimeras Jabberwocky, bestiary fantasy that suddenly takes you into a secret world, lurking on the surface of things ... Petra Werle
For it was the bread, the first face was there, just emerging from this living flesh.
She crept into the breach, and the adventure began ... Trapped in
frameworks or put under glass, while a small nation of whimsical characters took shape disheveled, rowdy and impertinent madly, waving and grinning with false airs sorry bantering and smiles, tiny theater of life and love, between grotesque and beautiful, carved in the bread of the day.
Among his early characters, Arthur -Still-Here and Monica-Belle-de-Frost Lascault where Gilbert has written a love story.
and Monica-belle-de-frost
1982-1986, Editions Baby Lone
1987-1991, Editions Baby Lone
It works on the principle of the series: Constellations (1995), Sex Scenes (1998), Entomology (1999 ), Procession (2000), The Circus of Love (2002), The Hours and Days (2004), and Histoires naturelles (2005).
love and eroticism, human vanity, and sometimes death, feed on a cosmography overflowing.
Butoh, Dance of Darkness , is a dance avant-garde underground invented in Japan in 1959. Petra Werle said
she had an epiphany when she saw for the first time the dancers body and bleached ecstatic faces, impassive: "My mind stood up in my head, my heart began to beat, j have had the feel of them. "
The simplicity of the means used and the fact transform the flesh into moving sculptures, sign language where bodies express what dwells in a kind of wild beauty and sensual, without artifice, and scored Petra Werle forged a deep bond with breadcrumbs.
In 1998 she participated in the inauguration of the Museum of eroticism in Paris with Robert Combas, which greatly helped to focus critical attention on his work.
In 1997 she moved to Montreuil, and after several years of exclusive passion for bread, is now on the side of insects that it draws its inspiration and its raw material.
wings of butterflies, discarded shells, beetles, stick insects and elytra, pupal cocoons, carapaces, antennae and various appendages, but also some grass blades and it eradicates pericarps, are its scope of sourcing.
His characters grow in size and color, the set gets more sparkling and colorful array of carnival dream revisited by the phantasmagoria of a Hieronymus Bosch Lilliputians.
The characters are pinned in black boxes, appropriately labeled:
Mesmers ragged, the crowd of disheveled, romantic Cannibals, The palaver palpitations, facetious flicker, The fanatics flutter, seductive striptease ...
© Photos Frantisek Zvardon - Editions Castor & Pollux
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