The Prince of Watercolours at the Prince Maurice
The Constance Prince Maurice palace is about to experience a fantastic week, from December 1st to 8th, the exhibition of Jean-Yves Chen, a Madagascan water-colourist nicknamed the Prince of Watercolours, will illuminate the hotel with around 30 of his paintings. Code name: radiance
Going back home
A native of Madagascar, Jean-Yves Chen's painting has been alternatively hyperrealist and surrealist, exploring all the angles of watercolour techniques. He has now returned back home with an exhibition whose dominant theme is the radiance, in order to waken our senses as we approach winter. Everything is set up in the Prince Maurice's heavenly surroundings. This is undoubtedly a gentle invitation to daydreaming and relaxation.
From Madagascar to Napoleon's Consecration
Although Jean-Yves Chen has been spending hours and kilometres of canvasses to draw the daily lives of Madagascar people for years, he is now coming back with a more surrealistic work, inspired by creasing. Between the Lambas in Madagascar and the Louvre paintings such as “Napoleon's Consecration”, the crease is bursting onto his work unfurling the endless complexity of the textures. After the Baroque variations and the Leibniz philosophy, we will now have to count on the Prince of Watercolours to grasp the whole blessing and beauty of the crease. So let's meet at the Constance Prince Maurice hotel!
A native of Madagascar, Jean-Yves Chen's painting has been alternatively hyperrealist and surrealist, exploring all the angles of watercolour techniques. He has now returned back home with an exhibition whose dominant theme is the radiance, in order to waken our senses as we approach winter. Everything is set up in the Prince Maurice's heavenly surroundings. This is undoubtedly a gentle invitation to daydreaming and relaxation.
From Madagascar to Napoleon's Consecration
Although Jean-Yves Chen has been spending hours and kilometres of canvasses to draw the daily lives of Madagascar people for years, he is now coming back with a more surrealistic work, inspired by creasing. Between the Lambas in Madagascar and the Louvre paintings such as “Napoleon's Consecration”, the crease is bursting onto his work unfurling the endless complexity of the textures. After the Baroque variations and the Leibniz philosophy, we will now have to count on the Prince of Watercolours to grasp the whole blessing and beauty of the crease. So let's meet at the Constance Prince Maurice hotel!
Décembre 2007
