“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite oneself by entering into the real sense of things.”
About Marceau Verdiere
My work imagines what a soul might look like, visualizing the traces of memories and how the enrich the
ever-evolving patina that makes us who we constantly become.
Day after day, new memories are made while older ones fade into …wherever…
For the past decade, my work has been about observing life as a work in progress appreciating what remains of all our experiences as we carry on living. I want to appreciate the consequential moments that too rarely stand out against the dull routine of daily existence.
More specifically I am interested in the instants that cultivate and nourish the patina of one’s aging soul. To translate these ideas into paintings I experiment with the application of pigments as I do with their removal, creating marred and injured surfaces, rich as life itself, revealing traces and scars, like faded memories too stubborn to be forgotten.
In my photographic work, I seek out the worn out, decaying, and thus overlooked surfaces around me. Aesthetically these images are often a visual inspiration for my paintings.
I hope to evoque similar impressions to those that are best described in the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of Wabi-Sabi; the deep appreciation for the simple melancholy and beauty that is inherent to imperfection, the ephemeral and the modest, antidotes to the ever more pervasive vulgar in our world.
Thank you.
Marceau Verdiere
Awards
2024: Faben Artist Fund award
2021: Victor Jacoby award
2013: RAA Juried showprize for the work: Facing Consequences
2011: MiaBo Foundation Merit Award for Contribution to the Arts
2010: Keet TV /Ink people for the Arts/Fetzer institute for peace. First in show prize for “The moment before forgiveness” Exhibit titled” Love and compassion in Art”