For its first solo show at the Galerie Di Meo, Largo Con Sordini, young French artistMélanie Delattre-Vogt presents three series of drawings on paper, including a series of 15 illustrations created for a book by Beatrix Beck, Cou coupé court toujours.

The Galerie Di Meo entrusted the production of the exhibition catalogue to Communic’Art.

Born in 1984 in Valenciennes, French artist Mélanie Delattre-Vogt emerged with the exhibition Dynasty at the Palais de Tokyo and Paris Musée d’Art Moderne in 2010.

Graduated from the University of Valenciennes with a Master’s degree in Plastic Arts, she specialises in drawing on paper, combining pencil, colour pigments, and sometimes blood.

Her delicate compositions, filled with inanimate characters “seem to capture (…) those instants, hanging in the air, when one awakens to the  fleeting memories of one’s dreams” (Alexandre Mare, 2011).

Largo Con Sordini
9 December 2011 – 11 February 2012
Galerie Di Meo

The catalogue Largo Con Sordini features 30 drawings by the artist:
- a series of 15 illustrations created for a book by Beatrix Beck entitled Cou coupé court toujours, 
- the series Tongdaeng, biography of a Pet Dog, 
- 12 variations on the topic of dogs, as well as a series of 3 drawings inspired by the artist’s sister.

It includes a foreword by Alexandre Mare, art critic and curator. Printed in 1,000 copies, this 52-page catalogue available in a French/English bilingual edition, will be on sale at the Galerie Di Meo and in all bookshops for 15 euros.

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Illustrations, from left to right : Cou coupé court toujours, VIII, August 19 – 20, 2011, pencil, colour pigments and blood on paper, 28×19 cm – Cou coupé court toujours, XIV,Septembre 23-28, 2011, pencil, colour pigments and blood on paper, 28x19cm – Cou coup court toujours, IX ,  August 24 – 26, 2011, pencil, colour pigments and blood on paper, 28x19cm.