{"id":252,"date":"2025-12-03T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller-dev.gestion-idweb.fr\/?post_type=exposition&p=252"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:11:39","slug":"dans-le-rose-qui-petille","status":"publish","type":"exposition","link":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/exposition\/dans-le-rose-qui-petille\/","title":{"rendered":"In the sparkling pink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ludivine Gonthier, Valana, 2025, Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 162 x 130cm \/ Courtesy of the artist and MaiaMuller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Until December 20, 2025, Ma\u00efa Muller Gallery presents its inaugural exhibition in Paris, \u201cDans le
rose qui p\u00e9tille\u201d (\u201cIn the Sparkling Pink\u201d), conceived by artist Ludivine Gonthier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The living energy of painting
<\/strong>Revealed at the 2024 Lyon Biennale, where her monumental canvases captivated audiences with their
striking intensity, Ludivine Gonthier, a graduate of the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, approaches
painting as a physical, almost carnal act. Her work is uncompromising, inhabited, free, and fiercely
expressive - qualities now on view in the beautiful new space of Ma\u00efa Muller gallery in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ludivine Gonthier, Le dressing, 2025, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 200 x 350cm \/ Courtesy of the artist and Maia Muller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Having trained with painter James Rielly, Ludivine Gonthier quickly distinguished herself through
her need for space and expansion; her canvases, often too large for the studio, already asserted their
presence. For her, painting means giving body to paint itself - allowing it to exist in space as a living
entity. Her works, saturated with vivid colors, combine paint and charcoal in a dialogue between
radiance and obscurity. The charcoal she favors disrupts the purity of pigments, introducing smoky
passages and muted, organic tones. The result is raw, vibrant, and perpetually in tension.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ludivine Gonthier, Les pourp\u00e9es, 2025 diptych Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 250 x 315cm \/ Courtesy
of the artist and Maia Muller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Ludivine Gonthier often depicts herself in many forms: full figures, busts, groups, unsparing selfportraits. Through these variations, she explores the fluidity of identity, the roles and masks we
inhabit, much like in The Sims, a game she cites as a metaphor for her practice: a space of freedom
within constraint, where identities are endlessly recomposed. Her painting does not imitate reality; it
captures its frictions, its slippages, its zones of uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ludivine Gonthier, Les masques, 2025, Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 100 x 80cm \/ Courtesy of the
artist and Maia Muller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ludivine Gonthier, Le frigo, 2025, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 195 x 130cm \/ Courtesy of the artist and
Maia Muller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Faithful to Matisse's conviction that one must \u201cexpress a vision of color\u201d rather than copy the world,
Ludivine Gonthier seeks a painting that is alive, charged with emotion and instability. Her universe,
at times chaotic, embraces disorder as a creative engine. Nothing in her work is decorative: every
mark, every stain testifies to a refusal of neutrality. What she pursues is neither beauty nor balance,
but vibration, imbalance, intensity, that raw energy that turns each canvas into a total experience.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ludivine Gonthier, 18 Septembre, 2025, Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 100 x 80 cm \/ Courtesy of the
artist and Maia Muller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ludivine Gonthier, 12 Septembre, 2025, Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 160 x 140cm \/ Courtesy of the
artist and Maia Muller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ludivine Gonthier, Avec Mimir, 2025, 2025, Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas, 27 x 22 cm \/ Courtesy of
the artist and Maia Muller Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":1207,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-252","exposition","type-exposition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-passees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}