“When I paint, I want us to escape from the structure of the painting”. However, This sentence sums up the work of artist Marion Toulgoat, based in Arzano, in love with freedom and nature. Meanwhile, Passionate about painting since her 11 years, she specializes in the wall frescoes and the trompe-l’oeil. Similarly, This last process is used in the fifteen works which constitute its series “When the canvas comes to life”. Meanwhile, exhibited at the cultural hall La Loco de Quimperlé from this Sunday, August 3, 2025.
Ready to leap out of the framework – Marion toulgoat exhibits her living
Everything is a matter of relief. Nevertheless, Marion Toulgoat first painted on canvas, alternating between brilliant varnish and matt varnish to create contrasts. However, It then affixes to this decor animal or vegetable figures cut in wood. Butterflies, parrots and multicolored fish seem to escape from their frame. Some even come marion toulgoat exhibits her living alive. like the fairy house inspired by his daughter, whose door can be opened to take a curious look inside. Or this frog that leaps out of the table, a request from his little boy. “I really like to paint animals. Little by little, we see the hairs appear, the pupil forming, and the painting comes to life, ”she says.
The canvases of the series “borrows from a …” by Marion Toulgoat mix geometric and animal shapes whose pupils contain a map of their original country. (The telegram/Lila Paulou)
The love of animals
Its second series “borrows from a …”, exposed to the floor of the loco, marion toulgoat exhibits her living represents animals more real than life. Inside their eye is a map of their country or region of origin. We can thus distinguish France in the eye of a hedgehog. Canada in the pupil of a squirrel, or Nepal in that of a malicious red panda. The metering that welcomes us at the top of the stairs carries the whole Africa in his gaze. A way to pay tribute to the nature it likes so much.
Practical
La Loco, 33 boulevard de la Gare in Quimperlé. Opening of Marion Toulgoat’s exhibition this Sunday, August 3 at 6 p.m. Sunday, August 3.
