Stromboli Black Sun
The exhibition Stromboli Black Sun, a solo show by the painter Cyb, explores with poetry the grandeur of the universe and the force of the elements at Galerie Area Paris. On view until November 15.
Color is the flesh of the world. Such is the motto of Cyb, a Paris-based painter. Galerie Area welcomes her for a luminous solo show, in the image of its artist. Cyb uses the poetry of colors in her canvases to summon deep abysses from which lush oases spring forth.
Where are we? In a black sea or in a volcano. In a nocturnal sky or in a spatial explosion, right among the stars, lost, dreaming and silent. In the exhibition "Stromboli Black Sun," Cyb uses all her chromatic capacities to take us on a journey through her universe, situated on a distant horizon, thus evoking unknown and archaic gods. Here nature shines resplendently and takes on nurturing allures. This series with its dark background evokes the image of Gaia or the verses of original myths. One thinks of the deflagration, of the implosion that resonates when planets collide and give birth to new lives.
Cyb structures her compositions with finesse. She plays with our gaze to invite it toward the center of her suns and her constellations. The hanging testifies to a beautiful diversity and all the canvases manage to attract attention, to produce luminous bursts of varying intensity, using coppery or golden tones. Cyb produces acrylic jets that diffuse and intertwine with the graceful and tranquil softness of a song that asserts itself.
In this obscurity, in this sparkling black, one perceives a profound freedom and a quest for meaning. The exhibition follows an ontological reflection by the artist, produced after the striking vision of a volcano in full eruption: "It is an archaic experience, which speaks far more eloquently than the accumulation of anthropology books. Or rather, one understands why all those books were written: to grasp something of the mystery of what connects us to the earth, on the one hand, and to our fellow humans in our frail existence, on the other. There is something profoundly human in the radical humility of our condition."
The exhibition immerses us in an aura of mystery with great enchantment, making us experience with force that moment when being becomes aware of all the grandeur of the universe.