Karine Bartoli

My painting speaks of atmospheres, of representations of moments of life, of moods. My models are photographs taken on the spot, images found in newspapers or on screens. When I have a “visual shock” I select and paint. Thanks to the medium of painting, I translate and transcribe onto the canvas my feelings about the image, my memories of past moments: the movement, the attitude of the characters, the air that envelops them and the territory in which they are embedded. The painting is then a condensation of lived sensations. The compositions, the restrictive choice of colours, the casual gesture, the decision of the outcome or not of the pictorial work make my paintings fit into a singular language. I theatricalise, stage, give substance to a reality that may not have any. The painting sacralizes an insignificant moment, it “continues” the photographic image. I am attentive to the passing of time and the traces it leaves. The atmosphere of the time we live in, the relationship between human beings are the subjects of my work. Influenced by painters such as C. Corot, El Greco, D. Hockney, Eric Fischl, Elisabeth Peyton, Adam Adach, Wilhelm Sasnal, Alex Katz, Pierre Senturier, Claire Tabouret, and many others, my work in painting is a personal research on the sincere expression I can have by looking carefully at the passing of time and the traces it leaves.

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