2001
Original tales and legends
Once upon a time, there was a stubborn little man who had gone to beg for pressure from tall tutelary figures with stitched faces and bodies wrapped in great rough cloaks. Then he had walked, walked through the forest, and continued higher than the trees to the top of the mountain, close to the sky. Pierrette Gonseth Favre is a storyteller of the human condition, using needles in her large jute reliefs and brushes in her paintings, whose colourful palette was born of her encounter with Mexico. The close complicity of her work with her materials betrays a need for empathy with the world and nature. Even her recent paintings reinvent this intimacy through other gestures, as she juxtaposes on canvas a multitude of prints of dead leaves, like an organic humus from which color emerges.
In these original and highly symbolic places, mountains and forests, man and nature have always been indissolubly linked. Part fairy, part witch, the narrator-illustrator freely surveys and revisits the enchanted and frightening territories of the tales and legends that form the basis of our culture and have haunted our childhood.
Françoise Jaunin, 24 Heures, June 25, 2001
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