Daphné Dorel

Coming up solo exhibition at Galerie Lehner: April 11th – May 3rd 2024

Daphné Dorel, born 1974 in Paris, is a French contemporary artist. Especially in recent years, she achieved recognition with her art.

In her works, the viewer gets the opportunity to immerse himself in a personal interpretation of the depicted landscapes. The workrange moves through various moods, from joyful summery shorelines to dramatically dark scenes. She shows not only the idyll that a landscape can create, but also the fear and the threat of loss that it harbours.

Dorel mostly uses photographs as reference material, filled with young to old figures, which she applies to the canvas using a combination of oil paint and tempera. In most cases, the clothing and poses of the people showsn are reminiscent of the 1930s and 1950s. These elements reveal a blending of times – a past that is depicted in the present, a blending that evokes a certain melancholy in the viewer and reminds him or her of childhood and a time that lies in the past.

Dorel’s works are characterised by a interplay between hard and soft outlines. On the one hand, she depicts the pictorial elements clearly and precisely, while she enjoys the experimentation with abstraction and the blurring of colours. The colour palette in her oevre ranges from bright, warm to dark, cold shades. This reflects the cheerful yet sombre character of her art and opens up to several possible levels of interpretation of landscape painting.

Daphné Dorel, Nocturne, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 114 x 195 cm

Daphné Dorel, Winter Blue, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 114 x 195 cm

Daphné Dorel, Strobl – Wolfgangsee 1, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 130 x 162 cm

Daphné Dorel, Sky, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 162 x 114 cm

Daphné Dorel, City, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 162 x 114 cm

Daphné Dorel, Nature, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 162 x 114 cm

Daphné Dorel, Rave 3, 2021, Distemper and oil on canvas 114 x 162 cm

Daphné Dorel, Majorque, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 89 x 116 cm

Daphné Dorel, Mother and child, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm

Daphné Dorel, Reindeer, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 89 x 116 cm

Daphné Dorel, Swimming Pool, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 116 x 81 cm

Daphné Dorel, Porquerolles 3 Eden, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm

Daphné Dorel, Porquerolles 2, 2022, Distemper and oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm

Daphné Dorel, Porquerolles 1, 2020, Distemper and oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm

Daphné Dorel, Snow Layers, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm

Daphné Dorel, Pink sky, 2022, Distemper and oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm

Daphné Dorel, Moat, 2022, Distemper and oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm

Daphné Dorel, Strobl – Wolfgangsee 2, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm

Daphné Dorel, Workplace liminal space 1, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 54 x 73 cm

Daphné Dorel, Child 2, 2022, Distemper and oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm

Daphné Dorel, Child 1, 2022, Distemper and oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm

Daphné Dorel, Into the Woods, 2022, Encaustic on wood 60 x 60 cm

Daphné Dorel, Swimming II, 2022, Encaustic on wood 60 x 60 cm

Daphné Dorel, Swimming I, 2022, Encaustic on wood 60 x 60 cm

Daphné Dorel, At Sea, 2023, Distemper and oil on canvas 33 x 41 cm

Daphné Dorel, Rave 1, 2021, Oil on board, 40 x 50 cm

Daphné Dorel, Rave 4, 2023, Distemper, gold leaf and oil on wood 50 x 70 cm

Daphné Dorel, Rave 2, 2021, Distemper, gold leaf and oil on wood 70 x 100 cm

Exhibitions

> Daphné Dorel - Memories 11.04.2024 to 03.05.2024 Galerie Lehner

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