Alix Aulagnier paints to prolong the taste of life and to remember it better. She paints what she loves, her observations, her travels, the paths she takes and the destinations she reaches at dawn as a reward. The tranquillity of her landscapes is deceptive, the balance is fragile, fire is never far away, it's that touch of pink that sets the sky on fire before the end of the day, that cloud of stars that lights up the night like a blessing given to travellers... Looking at Alix's drawings, it's impossible to resist the emotion. The artist captures and sublimates the poetry of the moment with magnificent, velvety shades. Her mastery of the interplay of light and shadow gives each of her compositions a fragility that is at once gentle and incandescent. A lover of wide open spaces, these nocturnal journeys are like suspended moments that awaken her senses, perceptions change, time slows down, the road floats in deep blackness and the moon becomes her travelling companion. For this very personal exhibition, Alix has chosen to combine pastels, which she works with the pulp of her fingers, and linocuts, two techniques that leave marks on the paper, as if to better retrace the road she loves so much and which has become the protagonist of her first exhibition. Welcome to the opening of 'Itinéraire Nuit'.
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY :
Alix Aulagnier graduated from the Ecole Boulle with a degree in spatial design and went on to complete a master's degree in art and design at the Sorbonne in 2020. She has now returned to drawing, the most sensitive and free means of expression. Inspired by wild nature, architecture, wide open spaces and 20th century prints, her illustrations are like a logbook of her travels, ephemeral moments that also bear witness to moments spent in places that are familiar and full of memories. It all starts with sketches made on the spot in travel diaries, then her work evolves into dry pastel drawings and linocuts.