Elise Lafontaine's "Colorature" at Pangée, Montreal: Marouflage Paintings Between Architecture and Sound
Elise Lafontaine showcases her latest painting exhibition, "Colorature," at Pangée in Montreal. For more information, a booklet can be found at pangeepangee.com. Utilizing marouflage, Lafontaine stretches linen over intricately carved wooden frameworks, crafting pieces that suggest architectural shapes while maintaining a sense of ambiguity. The interplay of color highlights edges and geometry, merging the distinctions between object and image. Inspired by her childhood visits to churches and a journey to the Niaux caves in France, she aims to recapture the emotional essence of the sacred. Coming from a musical background, Lafontaine integrates organ pipe motifs, reflecting rhythm and resonance. "Colorature" connects music with her artwork, highlighting the enduring nature of color and painting as a means of harmony.
Key facts
- "Colorature," an exhibition of new work by Elise Lafontaine, is on view at Pangée in Montreal
- An exhibition booklet is available at pangeepangee.com
- Lafontaine uses marouflage, mounting stretched linen over carved wooden structures
- The works evoke columns, portals, windows, architectural fragments or instruments without resolving into any single form
- The title Colorature refers to a style of singing defined by ornament, agility and virtuosity
- Childhood Sunday Mass, with organ reverberation and stained-glass light, is cited as an early aesthetic experience
- A visit to the prehistoric caves of Niaux in France shaped her view of painting as gesture embedded in space
- Organ pipes recur in the work as formal and conceptual motifs suggesting columns, scores and intervals
Entities
Artists
- Elise Lafontaine
Institutions
- Pangée
Locations
- Montreal
- Canada
- Niaux
- France