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Le nouvel opus de Mich\u00e8le FRANK & Ren\u00e9 WIROTH<\/h2>\nLe nouvel opus de Mich\u00e8le FRANK & Ren\u00e9 WIROTH<\/h2>\nPeintures Traduction anglaise : Laine JACOB<\/em><\/p>\n Correspondances tel est le titre du nouvel ouvrage \u00e0 deux plumes et quatre mains que signent les artistes Mich\u00e8le Frank et Ren\u00e9 Wiroth et qu\u2019ils pr\u00e9senteront \u00e0 l\u2019abbaye de Neum\u00fcnster vendredi prochain 12 juin \u00e0 18h. Un ouvrage dont le sous-titre touche \u00e0 l\u2019ex\u00e9g\u00e8se et en dit assez sur les \u00e9changes et les complicit\u00e9s dont il est ici question. Postulat et d\u00e9monstration que \u00ab dans l\u2019univers compos\u00e9 de r\u00e8gnes analogues, chaque \u00e9l\u00e9ment correspond \u00e0 un \u00e9l\u00e9ment d\u2019un autre r\u00e8gne \u00bb.<\/p>\n \u00ab L\u2019or et l\u2019argile \u00bb, leur pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent ouvrage, \u00e9tait une pr\u00e9sentation en duettiste de leur travail. Volont\u00e9 de s\u2019exposer comme un couple d\u2019artistes. Ils y relataient leur rencontre, son influence sur leur \u0153uvre ; bonheurs, douleurs, d\u00e9chirements et au final la juxtaposition des peintures de l\u2019une et des sculptures de l\u2019autre comme illustration d\u2019un dialogue. Dialogue humain plus encore que celui, artistique, auquel ils pr\u00e9tendent. La pr\u00e9face de l\u2019ouvrage est sign\u00e9e R\u00e9my Jacob. Il souligne une \u00ab pr\u00e9sence au monde (qui) s\u2019exprime de mani\u00e8re extr\u00eamement diff\u00e9rente \u00bb alors que dans la peinture de Mich\u00e8le Frank \u00ab tout \u00e9clate avec la force de l\u2019\u00e9vidence \u00bb que \u00ab c\u2019est chaque fois la vie qui l\u2019emporte \u00bb alors que chez Ren\u00e9 Wiroth on retient la \u00ab fragilit\u00e9 obstin\u00e9e\u2026 la tendresse (qui) baigne ses personnages \u00bb.<\/p>\n Cet ouvrage riche de 200 pages avec quelque 150 reproductions en couleur des sculptures et tableaux des artistes, et une derni\u00e8re partie qui est v\u00e9ritable album photos, para\u00eet comme le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent aux \u00e9ditions Guy Binsfeld.<\/p>\n Rendez-vous donc dans la chapelle de l\u2019Abbaye vendredi 12 juin \u00e0 18h pour la pr\u00e9sentation de Correspondances par les artistes et les auteurs. Elle sera accompagn\u00e9e d\u2019une exposition d\u2019\u0153uvres r\u00e9centes des artistes \u00e0 voir jusqu\u2019au 14 juin.<\/p>\n Fran\u00e7oise Pirovalli<\/p>\n par Remy Jacob<\/p>\n Mich\u00e8le Frank et Ren\u00e9 Wiroth sont de ces \u00eatres rares qui, pla\u00e7ant leur art tr\u00e8s haut, ne peuvent vivre sans lui tout en se pr\u00e9servant pour les autres. Sans pesanteur ni l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9, ils puisent leur aspiration \u00e0 l\u2019universel dans la communaut\u00e9 qui les entoure. Leur soif de comprendre les conduit \u00e0 faire confiance \u00e0 l\u2019\u00eatre humain contre le pr\u00eat-\u00e0-penser. Cependant, dans cet aller-retour avec le monde r\u00e9el, ils ont une fois pour toutes fait le choix de la beaut\u00e9. Celle-ci ne peut \u00eatre confondue avec le bien ; pourtant, dans leur \u0153uvre une sorte de morale affleure, que je me garderai de d\u00e9finir sauf pour dire qu\u2019en tout cas ce n\u2019est pas celle du diable dont en conna\u00eet aussi la beaut\u00e9. Leur art ni n\u2019agresse, ni ne tend un miroir. Il prend le spectateur dans son monde, il cr\u00e9e de l\u2019intimit\u00e9.<\/p>\n Mais ne vous y trompez-pas, l\u2019ouvrage que vous avez entre les mains le d\u00e9montre \u00e0 l\u2019envi, leur pr\u00e9sence au monde s\u2019exprime de mani\u00e8re extr\u00eamement diff\u00e9rente. Deux artistes, deux personnalit\u00e9s, deux temp\u00e9raments, deux techniques. Aucune confusion n\u2019est possible. Et c\u2019est l\u00e0 dans cette fragilit\u00e9 obstin\u00e9e que Ren\u00e9 Wiroth rejoint Mich\u00e8le Frank, lui dont la statuaire est \u00e0 hauteur d\u2019homme et \u00e0 fleur de peau. La tendresse baigne ses personnages blancs comme des mimes pensifs de m\u00eame qu\u2019elle les impr\u00e8gne encore lorsque soudain, arr\u00eat\u00e9s dans leur course, ils sont fig\u00e9s dans le bronze. Ses personnages ont, comme lui, le c\u0153ur sur la main, l\u2019amour en bandouli\u00e8re. Ses productions les plus r\u00e9centes ont la dignit\u00e9 du funambule lorsqu\u2019il se sait regard\u00e9 et craint de tomber. Ren\u00e9 Wiroth ne scrute pas le ciel puisque le ciel, il s\u2019y prom\u00e8ne d\u00e9j\u00e0 ; il est l\u00e0-haut, quelque part dans la brume du bonheur, nous guettant avec amiti\u00e9 et m\u00e9lancolie. Ses personnages sont les enfants du paradis ; on voudrait leur parler, mais on n\u2019ose le faire de crainte de briser leur r\u00eave solitaire. Parleraient-ils d\u2019ailleurs si on les sollicitait ? A quoi bon ? Ils nous parlent d\u00e9j\u00e0.<\/p>\n En 2001, ils ont rassembl\u00e9 quelques unes de leurs \u0153uvres dans un premier album, \u00ab L\u2019or et l\u2019argile \u00bb. Ils r\u00e9cidivent aujourd\u2019hui apr\u00e8s quelques ann\u00e9es \u00e9poustouflantes pendant lesquelles leur production s\u2019est enrichie en nombre et en profondeur. Ils publient un deuxi\u00e8me album que j\u2019ai parcouru avec jubilation. Vous le visiterez, j\u2019en suis s\u00fbr, avec le m\u00eame plaisir. Les statues de Ren\u00e9 Wiroth sugg\u00e8rent aujourd\u2019hui plus qu\u2019elles n\u2019imposent. Le nouveau mat\u00e9riau utilis\u00e9 par l\u2019artiste donne \u00e0 ses personnages un mouvement d\u2019\u00e9vidence, une s\u00e9r\u00e9nit\u00e9 gracile et une assertivit\u00e9 tranquille qui s\u2019adressent \u00e0 vous les yeux dans les yeux. Sans peur, ni reproche. Les peintures de Mich\u00e8le Frank ont gard\u00e9 leur force et leur vigueur mais aujourd\u2019hui elles s\u2019offrent \u00e0 nous dans une sorte \u00ab d\u2019explosion fixe \u00bb, pour reprendre l\u2019expression d\u2019Andr\u00e9 Breton. Albert Camus disait dans \u00ab Noces \u00bb, une \u0153uvre de jeunesse, que \u00ab Tout ce qui exalte la vie accro\u00eet en m\u00eame temps son absurdit\u00e9 \u00bb. Ouvrez cet album, allez ensuite voir les \u0153uvres de Michel Frank et Ren\u00e9 Wiroth. Vous serez saisi comme moi par l\u2019exaltation de la vie qui s\u2019en d\u00e9gage et comme Albert Camus, vous consid\u00e9rerez ensuite que l\u2019absurdit\u00e9 est un d\u00e9but, non une fin. Notre libert\u00e9 c\u2019est de vivre notre vie, notre libert\u00e9 c\u2019est d\u2019aimer Ren\u00e9 Wiroth et d\u2019aimer Mich\u00e8le Frank.<\/p>\n By Remy Jacob<\/p>\n Mich\u00e8le Frank and Ren\u00e9 Wiroth are among the very rare individuals, placing their art very high, who cannot live without it while keeping their hearts open for the world around them. Without false gravitas or flippancy, they take their aspiration to universality in the community which surrounds them. Their thirst for understanding drives them to have confidence in human beings rather than easily sought out ideas. And yet in this circular trip with the real world, they have finally chosen beauty. This sense of beauty cannot be confused with the idea of goodness versus evil. In their work a sense of morality surfaces which — being neither angelic nor demonic \u2013 cannot be defined. Their art neither aggresses nor does it hold up a mirror to the viewers\u2019 own internal vision. It takes the spectator into its world; it creates intimacy.<\/p>\n Do not be mistaken, as the work that you have between your hands clearly shows, their presence in the world expresses itself in two extremely different manners. Two artists, two personalities, two temperaments, two techniques. Confusion between the two artists is impossible. And it is here in this obstinate fragility that Ren\u00e9 Wiroth joins Mich\u00e8le Frank; he whose sensitive statuary is at the heart of man. Tenderness bathes his white personages as if they were pensive mimes just as it impregnates the bronzes which seem to have been suddenly stopped in their flight. These personages have, like Ren\u00e9, their hearts on their sleeves, love is strapped across their chests. These recent productions have the dignity of a tightrope walker when he knows he is being watched and fears a fall. Ren\u00e9 Wiroth does not search the sky because the sky is walking with him; he is above, somewhere in a mist of happiness watching over us with friendship and melancholy. His personages are the children of paradise. We want to speak to them but do not dare for fear of breaking their solitary dream. Would they speak if we queried them? For what reason? They are already speaking to us.<\/p>\n In 2001, they assembled some of their work in a first album, \u201cGold and Clay.\u201d They return today after several breathtaking years during which their production has grown in number and in depth. They are publishing a second album that I have seen with jubilation. You will visit their world, I am sure, with the same pleasure. Today, Ren\u00e9 Wiroth\u2019s statues suggest more than they impose. The new material used by the artist gives personages an evident movement, a graceful serenity and an assertive tranquility which looks directly into your eyes. — Without fear, without reproach. The paintings of Mich\u00e8le Frank have kept their force and their vigor but today they offer us a sort of \u2018fixed explosion\u2019 to use Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s expression.<\/p>\n Ren\u00e9 Wiroth and Mich\u00e8le Frank have not worked in vain in the course of these six years. Their talent is now acknowledged. In Luxembourg, the exhibitions have multiplied, the public has come in growing numbers. \u201cThe Fifth Season\u201d that they showed at Bourglinster castle took its title from a painting of Mich\u00e8le Frank where she expressed so very well the new sense of the artist, multiplying lines, inflaming movement. Europe, the construction of which the two artists are so attached has come to meet them by asking Ren\u00e9 Wiroth to conceive the prize given each year by the Fondation Edmond Israel to a \u201c European Great\u201d. In 2008 it was Jean-Claude Trichet, the Governor of the European Central Bank who received the statue. Moreover in Europe their works have traveled, notably in France and Germany and been welcomed in the United States. In New York, they exhibited at the National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, a brilliant institution in the heart of the city which for decades has had great artists among its members.<\/p>\n Albert Camus said in \u201cWeddings\u201d a work of his youth, that \u201cEverything which exalts life contributes at the same time to its absurdity.\u201d Open this album, then see the works of Mich\u00e8le Frank and Ren\u00e9 Wiroth. You will be held as I was by the exaltation of life which it gives off and like Albert Camus, you will then consider that absurdity is a beginning and not an end. Our liberty is to live our life, our liberty is to love Ren\u00e9 Wiroth and to love Mich\u00e8le Frank.<\/p>\n \u201cGold and Clay\u201d our first book together, subtitled \u201cArt and the Everyday\u201d was to have been a catalogue like that of all artists who have difficulties getting into a gallery, an art folder under their arm, with the hope of exhibiting their work or of making known their work thanks to the generosity of bookstores. But it is quite unusual that two artists present their work in the same book, even more so when it concerns a sculptor and a painter. Our unusual choice grew out of another process, that of presenting ourselves as an artistic couple having decided to exhibit together in order to break the image of the egocentric and solitary artist whose creation necessitates at most a retiring but attentive presence in the service of his art\/her art.<\/p>\n \u201cGold and Clay\u201d told of our meeting, the influence that it had on our work, the rifts which finally decided us to work in the sense of the complementarities of man\/woman. The juxtaposition of Ren\u00e9\u2019s sculptures and of my paintings illustrates this mute dialogue which expresses itself in our work. Today we have found our place, perhaps even thanks to this return to our beginnings, to the avowal of our difficulties in putting into place this intrinsic desire and the reciprocal fulfillment of the other. We have therefore decided to let our friends speak and to try and merit their affectionate testimony in showing a part of our work of these last six years.<\/p>\n Do not look for similarities in our work! But then perhaps you will hear the whisperings between them, perhaps you will perceive the exchange and the complicity which brought them into being and our desire to make them live together. My interior landscapes are like a foundation on which Ren\u00e9\u2019s sculptures evolve: sometimes as gigantic shadows, a bird-man stopped in mid-flight, interlaced couples in symbiosis, women seated in meditation plunged in their impenetrable universe, a head with three faces which shows the different facets of a human being, a personage held in a rectangle of which one cannot know if he permits himself to be held in equilibrium or if he characterizes enclosure, a dancer which recalls in three dimensions Matisse\u2019s dance figures.<\/p>\n While I am always balanced between two extremes: the empty and the too full, jubilation and anger, autumn colors which alternate with the rose and yellow of Naples, the flaming red and blue which evokes nightfall and the world of dream, for Ren\u00e9 there are objects which forever bear witness to his obsession with equilibrium<\/p>\n And you, what do you see?<\/p>\n Mich\u00e8le Frank, January 2009<\/p>\n
\nPerformances
\n<\/span>Installations
\n<\/span>Sculptures
\n<\/span>Projets artistiques<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/h5><\/div>\n
Pr\u00e9sentation<\/h3>\n
\nAujourd\u2019hui, ce sont leurs amis qui parlent du travail des six derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Les artistes ont averti \u00ab ne cherchez pas de ressemblance dans nos \u0153uvres \u00bb, mais qu\u2019importe l\u2019avertissement. \u00ab Echanges et complicit\u00e9 qui les ont fait na\u00eetre \u00bb, \u00ab d\u00e9sir de les faire cohabiter \u00bb, la qu\u00eate d\u2019\u00e9quilibre \u00ab obsession de Ren\u00e9 \u00bb et cette \u00ab oscillation permanente entre les extr\u00eames \u00bb qui caract\u00e9rise Mich\u00e8le sont autant d\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ments qui ont s\u00e9duits les uns et les autres.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/h5><\/div>\n
Pr\u00e9face<\/h3>\n
\nLa peinture de Mich\u00e8le Frank a franchi toutes les fronti\u00e8res laissant aux formes et au mouvement le soin de dire la libert\u00e9, sa v\u00e9rit\u00e9. Une peinture qui ne s\u2019en laisse pas conter et qui r\u00e9siste \u00e0 la cruaut\u00e9 des temps comme une femme moderne: ce n\u2019est pas une posture, disons romaine ou antique, on y voit l\u2019\u00e9motion, on entend la plainte, on souscrit \u00e0 l\u2019enthousiasme des lignes. Ce n\u2019est pas d\u2019une pi\u00e8ce, mais tout est vrai, rien n\u2019est faux, tout \u00e9clate avec la force de l\u2019\u00e9vidence, une vivacit\u00e9 spirituelle. Rien d\u2019inaccessible. Il y a des temp\u00eates sur ces toiles d\u2019o\u00f9 l\u2019on entend parfois sourdre comme une lourde rumeur, mais, regardez, \u00e9coutez, c\u2019est chaque fois la vie qui l\u2019emporte. Tout concourt au flamboiement de l\u2019image dans un romantisme abstrait qui se serait d\u00e9barrass\u00e9 du mystique et du surnaturel, ne gardant en filigrane que la part vuln\u00e9rable de l\u2019humain.<\/p>\n
\nRen\u00e9 Wiroth et Mich\u00e8le Frank n\u2019auront pas travaill\u00e9 en vain au cours de ces six ann\u00e9es. Leur talent est d\u00e9sormais reconnu. Au Luxembourg, les expositions se sont multipli\u00e9es, le public y est venu nombreux. \u00ab La cinqui\u00e8me saison \u00bb qu\u2019ils ont montr\u00e9e au ch\u00e2teau de Bourglinster reprenait le titre d\u2019un tableau de Mich\u00e8le Frank o\u00f9 s\u2019exprimait si bien le nouveau cours de l\u2019artiste, multipliant les lignes, enflammant le mouvement. L\u2019Europe \u00e0 la construction de laquelle les deux artistes sont tellement attach\u00e9s est venue \u00e0 leur rencontre en demandant \u00e0 Ren\u00e9 Wiroth de concevoir la r\u00e9compense remise chaque ann\u00e9e par la Fondation Edmond Israel \u00e0 un \u00ab Grand d\u2019Europe \u00bb. En 2008, ce fut Jean-Claude Trichet, le Gouverneur de la Banque centrale. En Europe d\u2019ailleurs, leurs \u0153uvres ont voyag\u00e9 notamment en France et en Allemagne. Les Etats-Unis les ont \u00e9galement accueillis. A New York, ils ont expos\u00e9 au National Arts Club, une institution brillante en plein c\u0153ur de la ville, \u00e0 Gramercy Park, et qui comptent depuis des d\u00e9cennies les plus grands artistes parmi ses membres.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/h5><\/div>\n
Foreword<\/h3>\n
\nThe painting of Mich\u00e8le Frank has crossed every border leaving form and movement the care of speaking of liberty; of her truth. A way of painting which cannot be retold, which resists the cruelty of time as does a modern woman: rather than a posture, let us say Roman or antic, we see the emotion, we hear the plaintive cry, we submit to the enthusiasm of the lines. It is not all of a piece but everything is true, nothing is false, everything bursts with the force of the obvious, a spiritual vivacity. Nothing is inaccessible. There are tempests on these canvases where one sometimes hears a welling up as of a heavy foreboding but look, listen, each time it is life itself that carries the day. Everything supports the flaming image of an abstract romanticism which has stripped itself of mysticism and the supernatural keeping only a filigree of human vulnerability.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/h5><\/div>\n
Introduction<\/h3>\n
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Pr\u00e9sentation par Claude Frisoni<\/h3>\n