Françoise Pétrovitch. Aimer. Rompre.

Françoise Pétrovitch. Aimer. Rompre. : Françoise Pétrovitch, Sans titre, 2023, huile sur toile, diptyque, 240 x 320 cm © A. Mole, Courtesy Semiose, Paris © Adagp, Paris, 2023    Françoise Pétrovitch. Aimer. Rompre. : Françoise Pétrovitch, Dans mes mains, 2023, huile sur toile,  240 × 130 cm © A. Mole, Courtesy Semiose, Paris © Adagp, Paris, 2023    Françoise Pétrovitch. Aimer. Rompre. : George Sand par Françoise Pétrovitch au musée de la Vie romantique © Photo Hervé Plumet  © Adapg, Paris, 2023    Françoise Pétrovitch. Aimer. Rompre. : Françoise Pétrovitch, Sans titre, 2023, huile sur toile, diptyque, 240 x 160 cm   © A. Mole, Courtesy Semiose, Paris © Adagp, Paris, 2023   


The exhibition


By giving carte blanche to Françoise Pétrovitch, the Musée de la Vie romantique wanted to renew the way it looks at its collections. In fact, if the works of the artist seem gentle, they nevertheless emanate a muted violence. And this ambivalence echoes the thwarted, impossible love of the Romantics who preceded her. But it is a romanticism with the taste of the day that Petrovitch implements: another exaltation of the self, where young people painted close their eyes and wall themselves in their silence, against the cries, the exaltations and the faces crossed by the emotion of the pictorial canons of the genre. In uncertainty and contemplation, his characters do not look at us. Separated by spaces in reserve, much less fusional than their elders, they are subject, according to Petrovitch, to the romantic questionings of their time.

Extract of the article by Emma Noyant published in the N°106 of the magazine Art Absolument. Published on May 17, 2023

When


05/04/2023 - 10/09/2023
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