
Egg tempera and oil on canvas
Collection Ginette Moulin / Guillaume Houzé, Paris.
Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
How does the artist get fragments of reality to exist alongside a certain idea of abstraction in one and the same painting? The question, which has sparked lively debate in the world of art for over a century, may be moot in reality. That is what Anne Neukamp is trying to prove in any case with her ambiguous landscapes, which are one and the other at the same time. The black moon reflected in the dark water of twilight is nevertheless a simple geometrical composition. The accumulation of layers of paint dilutes one in the other, offering us a contemplation that stands outside time.