Article: Frederique Lucien at Jean Fournier. (Paris, France)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)

A horticulturalist or experienced gardener could probably identify the forms in Frederique Lucien's paintings in a split second, but it took me a little time to even recognize that her subjects are flowers. At first, walking into a room of a dozen of her nearly 7-foot-high paintings, I thought these dramatic compositions, in which a single dark biomorphic form floats against a white ground, were pure abstractions. Then some of the forms began to suggest figures and geographical features. One red shape, for instance, looked like the continent of Africa, another black one resembled a silhouette of some internal organ. Their spatial presence - oscillating between flatness ...

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