ISABELLE BONZOM

WHAT IS TENDER, FRAGILE AND DELECTABLE IN A MAN'S BODY

by Marie-France Braekman

Art historian Marie-France Braeckman is also an art collector. In the catalogue of the exhibit Isabelle Bonzom, "Corps à corps, terre à terre", she writes about Isabelle Bonzom’s series of male nudes ( 1994-2002)

Art historian Marie-France Braeckman is also an art collector. In the catalogue of the exhibit Isabelle Bonzom, "Corps à corps, terre à terre", she writes about Isabelle Bonzom’s series of male nudes ( 1994-2002)

"Isabelle Bonzom’s paintings convey a sense of health, solidity and sturdiness, as well as an appetite for life that run counter to the dramatic vision of sickly and suffering flesh with which we are too often presented. Isabelle invites us to look differently at the image that unites flesh and meat, an image that she translates with legible lines and outlines and with frank flat surfaces of colors. Her research leads to a vision of the male nude that no other artist, in particular no other female artist, has ever dared to express. Hers is a lucid look of jubilation that manages to render, both with modesty and boldness, what is tender, fragile and delectable in a man’s body, when that body dares to surrender and accepts to be looked at without the conventional attitudes that aim to extol the conquering virility."

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