Aurore Pallet's Dreamlike Paintings on Wood
Aurore Pallet, born 1982 in Paris, creates small, dense oil paintings on wood rather than canvas, emphasizing intimacy and mystery. Her work evolves from dreamlike drawings populated by strange animals and solitary figures to composed paintings that feel like self-contained worlds. Pallet constructs images by gathering themes and motifs from the Internet, using intuitive accumulation and digital montage to create surreal, cinematic scenes. Her paintings feature artificial settings, saturated colors, and optical devices, blurring reality and virtuality. References range from Renaissance triptychs to Alfred Kubin, Kafka, and singer Alain Bashung. Recent exhibitions include 'Lignes de chance' at Fondation Ricard, Paris (2010), and 'Parti pris' at Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (2010). The text is an introduction by Léa Bismuth, art critic and researcher at Centre Pompidou Metz.
Key facts
- Aurore Pallet was born in 1982 in Paris and lives and works there.
- She started with drawings of strange animals and solitary figures in desert landscapes.
- Her paintings are small, dense, and executed on wood, not canvas.
- She uses digital montage to combine images from the Internet.
- Her work references surrealism, especially René Magritte.
- She incorporates theatrical sets, optical instruments, and trompe-l'œil.
- References include Renaissance predella panels, Alfred Kubin, Kafka, and Alain Bashung.
- Recent shows: Fondation Ricard (2010) and Galerie Claudine Papillon (2010).
Entities
Artists
- Aurore Pallet
- René Magritte
- Alfred Kubin
- Franz Kafka
- Alain Bashung
- Léa Bismuth
Institutions
- Fondation Ricard
- Galerie Claudine Papillon
- Centre Pompidou Metz
- Énsb-a
- AICA
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Montrouge
Sources
- artpress —