Anne-Lise Coste

Anne-Lise Coste - Untitled

Technique: Airbrush on paper

Artist Biography: Anne-Lise Coste is a Swiss artist born in Marseille, France in 1973. Her work spans a variety of media, including painting, drawing, writing and performance. Coste has become known for her highly personal and expressive style, which combines abstraction with figurative and textual elements.Much of Coste's work focuses on the exploration of identity, language and politics. He often uses writing as an integral part of his artistic practice, incorporating poetic and political texts into his works. She has also explored themes of memory, feminism and cultural criticism in her work.Coste has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the Kunsthaus Baselland in Switzerland, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. His work is in public and private collections worldwide, including the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

 

The Blue water exhibition takes as its starting point a small installation consisting of two glass jars, one containing water and the other blue pigment mixed with water. Starting with blue, water - whether it comes from nature or from the domestic sphere - is invariably represented by the same color, which is none other than the color we associate with sea water, that is, the color of the reflection of the sky on the sea surface. The drawings become a clear homage to the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi. We see here - once again - containers outlined and colored in blue. Bottles, jars, glasses, vases follow one another in this work, like a return to the classic still life, to the origins, in a clear parallelism to the return to the French campaign that the artist has recently made. In this case, the silent atmosphere of the still lifes and the blue they contain is associated with health, tranquility, understanding, maturity.