A volcanic summer
// Paris // from July 15 to September 20, 2024 //
// during the opening hours of the Monique et Myrtille café restaurant //
// 83 rue Orfila, Paris 20th (Gambetta - Pelleport) //
Ísland offers a selection of small volcanic formats, this motif being central in Icelandic artistic production as well as in the daily life of the inhabitants.
When she's not working at the National Theatre in Reykjavik, Mathilde Morant climbs erupting volcanoes to paint inks and watercolors in subtle shades of black and red.
If volcanoes are the backdrop for Ása Runars ' watercolors, sheep are the actors. Mischievous sheep frolicking on the slopes, chilly sheep huddled at their feet, romantic sheep enthroned on their summits. They are everywhere, just like there.
There are no fewer than four volcanoes present in Birgir Breiðdal 's paintings: lava for texture, ash mixed with resin for the shimmer of black, and colored pigments for contrast.
With Iceland boasting around thirty active volcanic systems (including the mischievous Eyjafjöll, which blocked air traffic in Northern Europe in 2010, and the more disturbing Fagradalsfjall, which has transformed Grindavík into a ghost town since last autumn), every turn or hiking trail allows you to discover a new peak, lava field, or crevasse created by the friction of the tectonic plates that cross the country.
The hardest part is to create an image that is not that of the postcards oversold by the tourist industry.
Hélène Tourbine 's photographs offer a reading shrouded in mist, playing with uncertain scales, abstract textures and shapes conducive to pareidolia.
// during the opening hours of the Monique et Myrtille café restaurant //
// 83 rue Orfila, Paris 20th (Gambetta - Pelleport) //
Ísland offers a selection of small volcanic formats, this motif being central in Icelandic artistic production as well as in the daily life of the inhabitants.
Opening Monday, July 15 from 5 p.m.
When she's not working at the National Theatre in Reykjavik, Mathilde Morant climbs erupting volcanoes to paint inks and watercolors in subtle shades of black and red.
If volcanoes are the backdrop for Ása Runars ' watercolors, sheep are the actors. Mischievous sheep frolicking on the slopes, chilly sheep huddled at their feet, romantic sheep enthroned on their summits. They are everywhere, just like there.
There are no fewer than four volcanoes present in Birgir Breiðdal 's paintings: lava for texture, ash mixed with resin for the shimmer of black, and colored pigments for contrast.
With Iceland boasting around thirty active volcanic systems (including the mischievous Eyjafjöll, which blocked air traffic in Northern Europe in 2010, and the more disturbing Fagradalsfjall, which has transformed Grindavík into a ghost town since last autumn), every turn or hiking trail allows you to discover a new peak, lava field, or crevasse created by the friction of the tectonic plates that cross the country.
The hardest part is to create an image that is not that of the postcards oversold by the tourist industry.
Hélène Tourbine 's photographs offer a reading shrouded in mist, playing with uncertain scales, abstract textures and shapes conducive to pareidolia.