Charlotte Vitaioli was born in1986 in Rennes. She now lives in between Rennes and Paris.

 

Charlotte Vitaioli studied at the School of Fine Arts in Quimper. Since then her work has been able to develop with a great diversity of means. The artist is as comfortable in the design of polyptychs in disproportionate formats as she can use lighter means in the realization of objects or paintings of more modest dimensions.

 

By remaining interested in the performance she practiced during her studies, as she can now use artisanal techniques for her artistic approach, Charlotte Vitaioli seizes all the means of expression at her disposal and thus shakes up the hierarchies agreed between fine arts, decorative arts or applied arts.

 

Her iconographic sources will draw on multiple references to the mythologies and artistic culture of the 19th century, to which she often mixes more immediately contemporary images. She practices traditional know-how to make objects, stained glass, silk paintings, ceramics such as embroidery and she can just as much invest in a plant installation or in video films. The uniqueness of Charlotte Vitaioli therefore lies in her great ability to compose smoothly with the circumstances that present themselves to her, without denying her imagination and her taste for a history of the arts summoning the English neo-Gothic, the German Bauhaus or the Native American folk arts, among others. Paradoxically, the technical as well as visual disparities of his productions end up developing a personal universe imbued with melancholy which reveals its coherence during its clashes.

 

Her pictorial research has led her to create dreamlike and distanced paintings, inspired by Japanese prints as well as landscape spaces by Henri Rivière. One finds there in his works this simplification of the landscapes which had made it possible to bring together in an exhibition in Switzerland the paintings of Félix Vallotton and those of Alex Katz. Like elementary icons of stereotypical landscapes, his paintings, falsely paradisiacal, hide a secret obsession with fleeing time, because his practice, using gouache to simplify the patterns, aims to evoke the fragile appearances of these serene moments spent contemplating nature.

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