The artwork is available for pickup at BelArt Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, or it can be delivered to the address of your choice within 2 to 3 weeks after your order is confirmed. The artwork is insured during transportation, so there's no risk. Origin: Belgium.
With "Les reliures rouges," Sophie Dumont offers a new variation in her series devoted to libraries. Here, the rigor of the linear motif is warmed by an earthy, sensual palette. The books, condensed into matter, become layers of memory, placed rhythmically on a silent shelf.
The canvas plays on contrasts: between chalky whites, neutral grays, velvety beiges and these deep, burnt reds, which give the painting its internal tension. We feel in the material—thick, striated, sometimes scarified—the work of the knife, the deposit of the collage, the gesture that insists, that connects, that digs.
But nothing here overflows. The whole remains contained, held, as if the painting, instead of speaking, chose to hold back. These red bindings are perhaps lives, voices, buried stories, which the artist aligns with majestic modesty.
With "Les reliures rouges", Sophie Dumont confirms her unique approach to the book as a pictorial object: neither decorative nor anecdotal, but carrying a sensitive density, a dialogue between matter and memory.
