ICICLE is delighted to invite you to the events of the Artistic Confidences hosted by Kathleen Evin at ICICLE Cultural Space, 35 avenue George V, Paris 75008

Tuesday April 4, 6:30-7:30 pm
Interview with the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton followed by her musical performance (Limited places, RSVP only, door closed at 6:45pm)

Wednesday May 24, 6:30-7:30 pm
Interview with the writer Chantal Thomas followed by the book signature event (Reservations will be open from May 10)

ICICLE’s Cultural Space, 35 avenue George V, Paris 75008, will welcome a spring season interweaving painting, music and literature, with the paintings of Vicky Colombet, the cello of Sonia Wieder-Atherton andthe books of Chantal Thomas. Conceived by Myriam Kryger, this series unfolds around Colombet’s “Antarctica-Shanshui” exhibition and the first iteration of a series of events entitled “Artistic Confidences”.

Art historian Marianne Mathieu, and journalist Kathleen Evin, guide us on this journey through the arts, in the company of creator-explorers concerned with connecting continents and building bridges between shores.

Exhibition « Antarctica-Shanshui » by Vicky Colombet

Curator, Marianne Mathieu

From March 16 to May 30, 2023

ABOUT COLOMBET "ANTARCTICA-SHANSHUI" EXHIBITION

The exhibition “Antarctica-Shanshui” brings together a set of large-format paintings, ink on paper and drawings made by French-American artist Vicky Colombet between 2012 and today.

Inscribed in both Western and Asian traditions, Colombet’s artworks offer a singular and striking encounter, in conversation with Chinese landscape art as much as French and American abstraction.

Shanshui is the phonetic transcription of the Chinese ideogram (山水) which means “landscape”. “Shanshui literally translates to mountain – water,” says Vicky Colombet. “In Asia, the word landscape is an abstract concept that arises from two realities: that of the mountain on the one hand, that of water on the other. Mountain - Water… it could also mean cloud, because this last one has the shape of the mountain and the consistency of water”. Shanshui are the landscapes of Colombet, such sensitive abstractions that they become Nature: mountain, water, cloud...(Find out more ...)

About Vicky Colombet

Active in Paris and New York, artist Vicky Colombet is a laureate of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.

In 2020, Vicky Colombet took part in the exhibition “Impression, soleil levant” in Shanghai, with her work exhibited alongside the iconic painting of Claude Monet “Impression, sunrise”. In 2021, the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris devoted an important exhibition to her in dialogue with Claude Monet.

Colombet’s works are part of important public and private collections in Europe, theUnited States and now in China. She is represented by The Elkon Gallery, New York and Dutko Gallery, Paris.

About Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Sonia Wieder-Atherton inhabits the music with a vibrant intensity that makes her touch unique. Born in New York of a Romanian mother and an American father, she grew up in Paris and left for Moscow at the age of 19 to study at the Tchaikovsky Institute. At the age of 25, she was awarded the Rostropovich Prize. An exceptional performer, she plays as a soloist and with the greatest orchestras of our time on all continents. For a long time, she has been conceiving musical works as tumultuous as odysseys, whether in homage to Nina Simone (“Little Girl Blue”) or inspired by the Jewish liturgical songs that transmit a memory. Sonia will give an exceptional musical performance inspired by the paintings of Vicky Colombet at the ICICLE Cultural Space.

About Chantal Thomas

Author of “Les Adieux à la Reine” (Prix Femina 2002) and “L'Échange des Princesses”. Upon being elected to the Académie Française in January 2021, instead of the ordinary sword bestowed on male colleagues, she requested that she be offered a Japanese fan. In fact, although this swimmer in love with the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the green waters of the Bassin d'Arcachon keeps coming back to New York, it is in Kyoto that she spends her winters. A traveler, a dreamer, and 18th century specialist, she will publish her latest book, “L'étreinte de l'eau”, in May with Arthaud Editions.

ICICLE Cultural Space

With more than 500 books, bridging Chinese and Western cultures, the ICICLE bookshop, located on the third floor of the George V boutique, explores the ways of being, living and creating according to nature. It opens onto a gallery, a luminous and airy space, designed to host art and design exhibitions.

A cultural season at ICICLE