exhibitions 2012
hyères 27
Céline Méteil
Galeries Lafayette, Toulon,
horaires
Dreams on canvas
Céline Méteil is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués, in Paris. She has worked with Alexander McQueen at Givenchy, followed by Galliano in 2005 as a second seamstress, before joining Balenciaga two years later. In 2011 she took part in the Hyères festival where she won the Prix Première Vision and the Prix du public.
“Céline Méteil established her minimalist and ethereal designs” in her award winning collection “Plié-Backstage”. The common thread within these designs: jaconet. A material that is not normally used beyond the fitting stage.
“Envelopes are a common feature in Céline Méteil’s back catalogue. From the envelope within which she slipped her application for the Hyères Festival, last December, to the gusset envelopes within which her dresses, folded like origamis, might even fit…” Lisa Vignoli, Les Inrockuptibles, 1/06/2011.
This year sees a different raw material, a fabric that had long been abandoned, deep within haberdashers’ wardrobes, has captivated Céline Méteil’s attention. Laying undetected within this canvas fabric was something that now fascinated her: a sequential weft made of innumerable holes that are filled – or remain empty – with colours and light.
Briefly reminding ourselves that in English a canvas is also a support for painters, Céline Méteil takes us further into her vision of it, playing with a material that in her eyes has become a fabric which filters and sifts the gaze: through openwork and pixels, she weaves themes and motifs, granting the canvas with the authentic modernity of digital creations.
Céline Méteil kidnaps this sleeping beauty from tapestry works, weaving with her canvas a narrative of thread; the threads of a stiff material which she tames in order to create a fabric that is supple, flowing and yet structured. Calling forth this raw material which, for her, is a basic net fabric full of nostalgia and femininity, she rediscovers the very essence of clothes themselves: a pure image, light, graphical, almost ethereal. The body itself breaths within the openwork of this canvas.
www.celinemeteil.com
Céline Méteil is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués, in Paris. She has worked with Alexander McQueen at Givenchy, followed by Galliano in 2005 as a second seamstress, before joining Balenciaga two years later. In 2011 she took part in the Hyères festival where she won the Prix Première Vision and the Prix du public.
“Céline Méteil established her minimalist and ethereal designs” in her award winning collection “Plié-Backstage”. The common thread within these designs: jaconet. A material that is not normally used beyond the fitting stage.
“Envelopes are a common feature in Céline Méteil’s back catalogue. From the envelope within which she slipped her application for the Hyères Festival, last December, to the gusset envelopes within which her dresses, folded like origamis, might even fit…” Lisa Vignoli, Les Inrockuptibles, 1/06/2011.
This year sees a different raw material, a fabric that had long been abandoned, deep within haberdashers’ wardrobes, has captivated Céline Méteil’s attention. Laying undetected within this canvas fabric was something that now fascinated her: a sequential weft made of innumerable holes that are filled – or remain empty – with colours and light.
Briefly reminding ourselves that in English a canvas is also a support for painters, Céline Méteil takes us further into her vision of it, playing with a material that in her eyes has become a fabric which filters and sifts the gaze: through openwork and pixels, she weaves themes and motifs, granting the canvas with the authentic modernity of digital creations.
Céline Méteil kidnaps this sleeping beauty from tapestry works, weaving with her canvas a narrative of thread; the threads of a stiff material which she tames in order to create a fabric that is supple, flowing and yet structured. Calling forth this raw material which, for her, is a basic net fabric full of nostalgia and femininity, she rediscovers the very essence of clothes themselves: a pure image, light, graphical, almost ethereal. The body itself breaths within the openwork of this canvas.
www.celinemeteil.com