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•Biographie• français Claire-Lise Renaud est née à Lausanne en Suisse
Après l'Ecole des Beaux Arts et Arts Appliqués
de Lausanne, Claire-Lise Renaud a pratiqué plusieurs activités
professionnelles, exploré d'autres voies d'expression, comme
l'écriture, qu'elle a privilégiée pendant quelques
années - collaborant notamment à la Tribune de Genève
et publiant textes et poèmes dans les années 70. Mais
le besoin de peindre s'impose. En 1984 elle quitte la Suisse et s'installe
en Provence, se consacrant dès lors à son cheminement
artistique. •Biography• english Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 1948 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When she abandons the framed space of the picture, Claire-Lise Renaud's work literally raises itself before the spectator's eyes. Columns, doors and "energy sensors" represent as many memory devices as thresholds opening on new perceptions. The Column erects itself from the ground, soaring skywards. Though a sign of power, its hollow shaft that shelters golden lines, streaks and natural trophies, makes its weakness clear. When blue and cool, it is like the mirror of the fundamental waters. When red, it blazes with the forces of the earth center. The Door is level with the ground. Its frame is inviting us to penetrate into an unknown world, but we stop on its threshold. The golden squares and large grooves that cut into its surface announce an even greater mystery than that of the forces of nature or of the dignity of mankind. The Sensors, immense chalices, combine the immobile plenitude of the column and the stunning line of the door's threshold. Both receptacles and craters, they receive and expel an energy which is now brute, now mild. Like the open arms of he who prays they link up mankind, nature and god. The constant movement of a spiritual presence pulses within them, hardly dissimulated behind the concretions of an ardent irruption or under still burning metal netting. Reversing our way of seeing Claire-Lise Renaud's painting invites to a commitment of the spectator's body and a conversion of his soul. No veil hides the beauty of creation from human glances. Only the denial of mystery is an obstacle to perception. Pascal Dreyer, Lyon, December 2005
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