Published by Perrotin, 2020
Hardcover, 312 pages
22.5 x 30 cm | 8.9 x 11.8 in
Texts by Anna Katherine Brodbeck (Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Dallas Museum of Art) and Annabelle Teneze (Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse)
ISBN: 9791091539234
About the artist:
Claire Tabouret studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Motivated by a sensitivity to the passing of time and the floodgates of vulnerability opened by human relationships, Tabouret’s painting practice is paced between periods of productive urgency and quiet reflection, and animated by layers, fabrics, and full, loose brushstrokes. Her hydrous palette is suspended somewhere in the ether between the synthetic hues of makeup and subdued tones of the earth, simultaneously referencing the natural and artificial ingredients of representation. Tableaux depicting bodies in confrontation, portraits, paintings of assemblies of people from young debutants to migrants at sea, and landscapes are often washed in color fields, alternately evoking the possibility of anywhere and site specificity. For her monotypes, Tabouret utilizes the phantom stains left by the press to develop transparency and opacity in her portrayals of conflict, sexuality, and desire.