Métamorphose des rencontres
29.01.25 - 11.03.25
AGNÈS BOURÉLY
“Music only passes through your soul, just like the beauty of a painting – you are dazzled, you know that you might be again some day, dazzled – but what, indeed, you must see, is right there, it is your own presence to art.”
Lucien Jerphagnon
Between dancing lines and singing colors, Agnès Bourély weaves visual poetry where every stroke tells a story. Her creations, true symphonies of colored pencils, markers, watercolor, ink, and gouache, invite us on a journey where time becomes an artistic matter. Her works unfold sometimes as majestic frescoes on large formats, sometimes as an intimate mosaic of 18 panels in dialogue with each other. Like pages of a sensitive diary, each painting captures the essence of a day, transmitting its emotion to the next through a subtle graphic thread. This visual choreography creates a wordless narrative, where each work breathes to the rhythm of the one that precedes it and announces the one that follows, in a perpetual dance between present moment and narrative continuity.
At the heart of “Metamorphosis of Encounters” flourishes a unique alchemy, where music and art merge. Bourély, like a conductor of the brush, translates the secret pulsations of melodies onto these works. Under her hands, rhythms become colors, tempos metamorphose into shapes, and notes incarnate into vibrant compositions.
Her works are visual scores where every stroke resonates with living energy. The gaze, guided by chromatic harmonies, travels like a musical note through dreamlike landscapes. It’s a pictorial symphony where each work becomes a silent melody, inviting the viewer into a total sensory immersion, where the boundaries between visual and musical blur to create a transcendent artistic experience.
Agnès Bourély studied at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Angers, where she obtained her National Diploma in Fine Arts in 1986. In 1988, she was awarded the silver medal by the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado. Her solo exhibitions have been held in notable venues such as the French Consulate in Anzoátegui, Venezuela; the Colette Dubois Gallery on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris (2014, 2015); the Ministry of Finance in Bercy, Paris; the Gibert Joseph Library in Paris; Esprit d’Atelier Gallery in Versailles; Le Vis-à-Vis Gallery in Paris (2013); and Zoya Tommy Gallery in the USA (2017).
Since 2017, Agnès Bourély has been represented in the United States by the international Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston, USA). Her work is part of the Microsoft collection as well as numerous private collections in the United States (Texas, New York, Chicago), Switzerland, France, and Singapore.
