FRANCARTISTES

* Géraldine GONZALEZ

Géraldine's works have been evolving around wire, one (mostly bland)-colored papier-mâché, pearl, crushed glass, and such mundane materials. The "plain" appearance of the final products, though, was seen as excellent artistic creation that whispers solemn beauty that allows them to collaborate and contrast wonderfully with high-end commercial products in retail display windows (Printemps, Hermès).
Her works evolve around light and transparency; they express subtle, almost brittle enchanting poet, where photofleurs become mysterious forest, candle ends become garden produce... all in single hue.
Plain romance.
www.geraldinegonzalez.com

* Sandra D. LECOQ

Lecoq and fabric; who would ever imagine that the fabric is her painting.
While Lecoq's works might be mistaken as product design of sort, these femme-vocaled functional-appeared pieces scream adamant yet indigenous art.
From http://www.lolagassin.com/
lecocq.htm:
"Her thumb and index firmly holding a needle, unravel seams, trace long and sinuous lines, define a posture, a figure difficult to grasp. Bitter-sweet, allusive and authoritarian, most likely feminine...
Fabrics, colors and lines combine into a pattern, a motif... collected fragments are patiently interwoven, knotted and braided. Dissimulated in the folds are bits and pieces from the whole world, yielding only a sigh from the tight knots."