Isabelle Girollet

Isabelle Girollet's photographs highlight the beauty in the "brutalism" of urban landscapes. Factories, construction sites and bridges take on a different aspect under the artist's sharp eye, to see only the beauty of color and form.

Isabelle Girollet has been interested in photography since she was a teenager.

At the age of 18, she joined photographer Olivier Dassault as his assistant. She stayed with the company for eight years, working in advertising and publishing for some twenty years.

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These works are a poetic detour of what surrounds us. These landscapes, which at first glance contain no harmony, the artist succeeds in making us discover all their lyricism.

Isabelle Girollet takes shots and shapes that transform the subject of the photo. A bridge becomes a lunar landscape, or an automatic door is transformed into a fleeting trickle of light. This photographic abstraction leaves the viewer free to think and dream about what the subject of the photograph might be.

At the time, the artist was following in the footsteps of the poet Émile Verhaeren, who described the hidden treasures of industrial landscapes in "The City": "They are bridges braided in iron; Thrown, by leaps, through the air; They are blocks of columns; Dominated by the faces of gorgons; They are towers on suburbs; They are roofs and gables; In folded flights, on houses; It is the tentacular city; ... Red lights; moving; on poles and tall masts..."

Today, everything is inspiration for Isabelle Girollet. A design object becomes architecture, and the architecture of a building takes the form of a colorful movement.

Isabelle Girollet's photographs are also reminiscent of painting.

Some have described the artist's works as photographic paintings, both in the deep, strong colors and in the movement of the forms. Movement is very often present, notably in the alignment of the different planes formed by the photograph.

As the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has written, "her palette is the world; her brushes, light". Isabelle Girollet's photographic and solar eye invites us to go beyond the limits of the visible and awaken our senses.

His graphic images free themselves from contours and show us new, quasi-musical compositions, translating the vibrancy in a sensory world that resonates so personally in each of us.

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His works

    Isabelle Girollet

    MADAGASCAR

    80 x 120 cm
    5400

    Isabelle Girollet

    JACK

    24 x 31 cm
    1450

    Isabelle Girollet

    GEORGE II

    70 x 100 cm
    3000

    Isabelle Girollet

    GEORGE I

    70 x 100 cm
    3000

    Isabelle Girollet

    ASCENSION

    80 x 120 cm
    5400

    Isabelle Girollet

    HELENA

    80 x 120 cm
    5400

    Isabelle Girollet

    PETILLANTE

    80 x 120 cm
    5400
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