VÉRONIQUE BATAILLE HEIM

VÉRONIQUE BATAILLE HEIM

INDACO D'ORIENTE

OPENING:
NOVEMBER 16 | HOURS 6pm - 9pm
(UNTIL 30 NOVEMBER 2022)

Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art is delighted to host, for the second time, the solo exhibition by Véronique Bataille Heim entitled Indaco d’Oriente (Indigo of the East).

Her journey towards the East is progressing and her research keeps on building a bridge that brings together cultures which were once distant from us but are now increasingly closer.

Traditional clothes, carpets, and fine fabrics rolled up or folded and stacked one on top of the other. These are the favourite subjects of the French artist Véronique Heim. This exhibition is a journey which pays tribute to a combination of dense geometric textures and embroideries abounding in history and life. Her works tell us stories of unfamiliar cultures, of exotic worlds. In her paintings we can get a whiff of the scents of coriander and mint tea, taste a hot spice. Around twenty works of different shapes and sizes build an eclectic and varied visit, transforming the rooms of the gallery into an authentic souk, transporting us to far-off spellbinding places.

Indigo, which gives this exhibition its title, is a colour which is omnipresent in this new production of the artist. It is the particular shade, halfway between blue and purple, of typical Vietnamese skirts and Pakistani wedding tunics. Until last century, it was arguably one of the most important colouring substances provided by nature. It is native to India; hence the likely origin of its name.

It is an introspective colour, not a little mysterious, and in a certain sense ‘magical’. It is known as the colour of the “sixth sense”. It fosters intuition, inspiration, and imaginative vision. In the East it is assimilated with that third eye located in the centre of the forehead which allows us to see and perceive even what is invisible to our eyes.

Heim draws us a geographically and culturally distant reality which, through the use of this magical colour, we can imagine and feel close to us.