Liliane Danino

Liliane captures the beauty and power of her dancers bodies, seized mid-jump, in a fold, a moment of momentum, a prayer, or a gentle arabesque, all conveyed through the vibrant strokes of her pencil or brush.

In her drawings, Liliane is able to represent the beauty and power of her dancer’s bodies captured and seized in a jump, a fold, a momentum, a prayer or a soft arabesque through the vibration of the stroke of her pencil or brush. Her strokes unleash in different rhythms, soft and less soft, powerful, tight and safe, freed from anything useless and always enhanced by some color wash.

Danino is able to make us travel endlessly through the intimacy of ageless landscapes in her large abstract paintings, with the silent and generous thickness of the material she uses, the infinite wealth of pigments placed and thought firmly or thrown into a free gesture and thought. Through her sculptures we can capture the agility of her fingers that print into the clay the emotion of her isolated and focused body and mind. Finally, in her larger portraits, women’s faces, protected by heartwarming headdresses, composed from glued and pigmented fabric, make us wonder silently through their large moist, sensitive and mindful eyes.

Liliane Danino, throughout this retrospective, takes us into the matter as a healing wound. She communicates this through her power and strength, her tenderness, her memory, her silence and especially her smile.