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For L.F.D.A. 02.A Virgin and Child in which the Child resembles a soulless, vacant-eyed doll ; a sketch for a “sculptural” ensemble, ruined, shattered, mutilated ; incomplete human figures seemingly cut out and pasted onto sheets of paper, covered with blotches of ink and watercolours, and marks in coloured crayon ; two male busts, apparently carved into plaques of marble, fixing us with grave stares ; more dribbles of ink ; and in the centre, a grotesque form with a spherical head and the small body of a naked doll, crowned with a grey cloud (Les ambassadeurs, 2007). Frédérique Loutz’s phantasmagorical world is peopled with a mix of strange, often monstrous creatures and realistic figures. Here we see them floating on the surface of the white space, or positioned above it like the remnants of ancient frescoes. Everything is carefully structured, yet the prevailing mood is one of anguish. This young artist’s surrealistic compositions are dreamlike and nightmarish by turns ; her brushstrokes range from fine, delicate “incisions” to thick, dripping daubs. Frédérique LoutzFrédérique Loutz, born near the French border with Germany, draws its inspiration from popular imagery, the world of the circus, from acrobats and a carnival, German tales, and also recurring subjects in the history of painting. In his watercolours, India ink drawings or sculptures, the spectre of disjointed dolls, toys, statuettes, living animals now stuffed, humans skulls and other bizarre objects, either found or specially built by the artist are piled up, crashed into each other and break, float on the surface of the white paper, or appear in freefall. [V. Th.] Frédérique Loutz was born in 1974 in Sarreguemines.
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