Barocco by Jacquounain Français Italiano

THE BAROCCO REVISITED

N° 38 March 2018

Baroque is omnipresent in Jacquounain’s work.

Whether it's the places in which it is exhibited, or the aesthetics of

her work. The decorative overload, the dramatic effects, the palpable

tension, the exaggeration of the movement, the exuberance, the greatness

in all its forms and the contrast, everything is there.

She tends to excessively transform reality, but always with poetry. Her

painting, without recalling that of the great Salvador Dalí, lets appear

silhouettes (human or not) which, thanks to a play of shapes and colors

establish a manifest dialogue. The emblematic figures of Greek mythology

are also ubiquitous in the work of Jacquounain.

So we can find a Narcissus and his distorting mirror in the middle of a

definitely Olympian atmosphere. A divine wind blows on the various

canvases of the exhibition, bringing to life the mystical atmosphere that

emerges from the place. A veritable jewel of stone, the cloister offers a

scenography well suited to the works.