Ella & Pitr
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Ella & Pitr: "Day by day forever"
Catalogued solo exhibition
11 May - 10 June 2017
Day by day forever. This maxim has followed Ella & Pitr for many years. It represents their love as much as their work. Love is built, day by day, requiring attention and perseverance not to get carried away by the daily routine.
Like love, work, especially when it is done as a couple, requires special attention and effort to evolve continuously. Whatever the medium or the theme of their creations, Ella & Pitr apply themselves to developing their potential, regularly questioning themselves, to see each time bigger, each time more accomplished. In 2015, they did not hesitate to take up the challenge proposed by Martin Reed, founder of the NuArt Festival, to go and paint the biggest mural in the world - helped by volunteers - Lilith and Olaf appeared on the roofs of factories in Klepp, spread over 21,000 square metres. Day by day, Ella & Pitr continued to travel to paint their giants in the four corners of the world after completing this enormous task. In Chicago, Montreal, Beijing, the Parvis de la Défense, the lawn of the Geoffroy Guichard Stadium in Saint-Étienne, Ostend, La Réunion... so many places now adorned with the characters - animal or human- of the Saint-Étienne couple. And if each of the paintings is unique, they all have one thing in common: they are only visible from the sky.
This very special universe, in which the poetic almost always prevails, is transcribed onto canvas with as much delicacy as it is deployed on the ground, on the roofs or on the walls. Ella & Pitr play it real. Whether the line is simple, naive or very accomplished and technically complex, it reveals situations in which everyone can find themselves. That is their strength. This 'Proust's madeleine' effect that puts the observer in a familiar situation. Invoking states of mind: tenderness, enthusiasm, perseverance, contemplation, reflection, solitude, love...putting the living (human or animal), and its relationship to others and the world at the centre of the works. This reality cannot, however, be completely grasped by the observer. For although they depict plausible situations, the way they are treated brings an element of magic - hence the poetry, beyond its narrative aspect - which makes the work as familiar as it is elusive, often fascinating.
Ella & Pitr: emotion, day by day, forever.
