CELINE MAS
VIEWS OF CERET
AFTER JEAN-CLAUDE LIEHN’S PHOTOGRAPHS

“The Devil’s Bridge, it’s true, I didn’t think I was going to paint it in shades of pink. It’s to brighten up the bridge. When I go to see my grandmother, I see the bridge like that, empty, with nothing there. I said to myself, Céline, think about what you’re going to do with the bridge. So I thought about it carefully, I reworked the colors. Green, yellow, pink to brighten it up, plus adding the gate that stands out here and then the road.”

Céline Mas

“We all, disabled or not, have something to give to others through exchange. When I discovered Céline Mas’s artwork, I immediately thought we should try to create something together. My photographs and her paintings are in such contrasting styles that they can only enrich each other if we manage to bring them together in a collaborative work.”

Jean-Claude Liehn

during the Drawing Festival

Opening reception Friday, April 17, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Interview with Céline Mas at 7:00 PM

Saturday, May 16, 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Jean-Claude Liehn will be present

What a joy to welcome Celine Mas, whose happiness and optimism are contagious!

Painters and illustrators today often work from photographs. In the nineteenth century, when color photography didn’t yet exist, photographs were often enhanced with watercolors.

It is this interplay between photography, drawing, and their interwoven histories that the frozen lake invites you to explore. Celine Mas reworks monochrome images by Jean-Claude Liehn, a photography historian, who exhibited at the frozen lake in 2021, where he was the first guest artist.

Richard Petit / curator