Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Marie Rioux
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Artist Marie Rioux ' s work unveils the ubiquitous channel of communication between the inner Self and the outside world to challenge the relationship between the viewers ' perceptual parameters and their cultural substratum to induce them to elaborate personal associations, offering them a multilayered aesthetic experience. Her paintings are rich of atmosphere and communicate spontaneity and emotion, to capture a new perspective on the world. One of the most impressive aspects of Rioux ' s inquiry into the notion of buauty is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of capturing the essence of nature, inviting us to partake her own inner landscape, urging the viewer to experience an increased awareness of way of seeing: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating artistic production.
Hello Marie and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid background: you studied Visual Arts at the Sainte-Foy CEGEP and you degreed from School of Visual Arts, Université Laval, Quebec City. How do these experience influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
Let me begin by sincerely thanking you for your interest in my work and all your kind words since