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[In French]\n\nOn peut enseigner l\u2019histoire de l\u2019art avec force diapositives, noms \u00e9trangers et exemples h\u00e9t\u00e9roclites ; et on peut \u00e9ventuellement le faire tout aussi bien en visitant la riche exposition r\u00e9trospective de Julie Ouellet. On y d\u00e9couvre, en effet, que depuis 20 ans environ, l\u2019artiste qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise rejoue ing\u00e9nieusement de nombreux n\u0153uds (c\u2019est le cas de le dire) vitaux de l\u2019histoire de l\u2019art. Dans son travail, elle aborde le dessin et le coloris, s\u2019interroge sur la complexit\u00e9 et la simplicit\u00e9, la multiplicit\u00e9 et l\u2019unicit\u00e9, questionne le poids respectif du corps et de l\u2019esprit et poursuit un passage graduel de la figuration \u00e0 l\u2019abstraction.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
C\u2019est son propre corps qui a servi \u00e0 Ouellet de mati\u00e8re premi\u00e8re pour ses premi\u00e8res \u0153uvres ; vers 2010, ce corps se multiplie et on commence \u00e0 voir plusieurs formes humaines s\u2019enchev\u00eatrer, se m\u00ealer, fusionner. La peinture \u00ab en taches \u00bb, comme la pittura di macchia du vieux Titien, cr\u00e9e, \u00e0 partir de masses organiques et de membres qui d\u00e9passent, des images tout \u00e0 la fois \u00e9rotiques et suffocantes, s\u00e9duisantes et d\u00e9rangeantes, entre Rorschach et Kamasutra. La peinture \u00e0 la cire est parfois chromatiquement neutre, noire ou grise, mais dans d\u2019autres cas le rouge sanguin \u2013 on dirait m\u00eame le rouge charnel \u2013 ou le chaos bariol\u00e9 renforcent le sentiment de malaise devant ces \u0153uvres si expressives, si d\u00e9nud\u00e9es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Si ces Chim\u00e8res<\/em>, Corps \u00e9tranges<\/em> ou Entrelacs <\/em> sont encore une repr\u00e9sentation d\u2019une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 ext\u00e9rieure, aussi peu plausible qu\u2019elle puisse \u00eatre, leur fonctionnement est d\u00e9j\u00e0 proche de l\u2019abstraction : comme dans la c\u00e9l\u00e8bre image ambig\u00fce du canard\/lapin, on y voit \u00e0 la fois des corps entrelac\u00e9s et des formes imaginaires, et aucun choix ne peut exclure son contraire avec certitude. Ce chemin vers l\u2019abstraction, Ouellet le trace comme l\u2019ont fait les inventeurs de cette peinture sans objet il y a plus d\u2019un si\u00e8cle : chez Vassily Kandinsky, les paysages perdent peu \u00e0 peu leurs contours reconnaissables, mais des traces d\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ments \u00ab naturels \u00bb survivent tr\u00e8s longtemps ; Piet Mondrian, dans un tout autre style, suit la m\u00eame trajectoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Julie Ouellet<\/strong>
Chemins d\u00e9tourn\u00e9s (rouge) 13-03<\/em>,62 \u00d7 47 cm, 2013.
Photo : Guy L\u2019Heureux<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Pour Ouellet aussi, c\u2019est le paysage qui d\u00e9clenche un passage plus franc, mais jamais d\u00e9finitif, \u00e0 l\u2019abstraction ; plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, les for\u00eats tr\u00e8s r\u00e9elles qu\u2019elle visite, observe et dessine deviennent, sur le papier, les \u00ab for\u00eats de symboles \/ qui l\u2019observent avec des regards familiers \u00bb dont parle Baudelaire. Les regarder, c\u2019est se perdre : un infini d\u00e9dale de lignes qui se croisent, se contournent, se d\u00e9passent, puis reculent, aussi confus\u00e9ment et paradoxalement que dans une image d\u2019Escher. De format petit, moyen ou grand, en gris ou en rouge, les Chemins d\u00e9tourn\u00e9s, les Tiss\u00e9 serr\u00e9 ou les D\u00e9raillement, mais aussi les images nomm\u00e9es  N\u0153ud<\/em>, happent le regard et ne le laissent plus partir, car il y a toujours encore un d\u00e9tail, un autre carrefour, un \u00e9pisode dramatique qui \u00e9merge soudain lorsque l\u2019on croit avoir tout vu. Un peu comme chez sa contemporaine Julie Mehretu, Ouellet cr\u00e9e des univers richissimes et d\u00e9bordants par l\u2019aust\u00e8re moyen qu\u2019est le trac\u00e9 monochrome, par le pouvoir magique de la ligne.
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