Artist - Painter and sculptor - Sylvia Rhud

Sylvia Rhud - Painting-Sculpture, Low/High-Relief, Models, Pieces.
The subjects, rocks, waves of matter, bodies and faces, come on stage. Their nudity is their drapery of light. Sylvia Rhud's drawings play with modulated blacks and 3D with the white of plaster.
The depths of the former respond to the impenetrable tensions of the latter. The whites can become blues and blacks, and then offer us their mysterious geologies.
The material rises, lies down, profiles itself, like a cliff.
A surface that is so tense creates a vertiginous expanse.
The passage between the faces is available in close-up.
Plunges and counter-plunges increase the monumentality.
The monolithic effect is combined with plastic accuracy. And the material in motion freezes.
Beauty is here a rediscovered value.
The artist's power is based on an eminently sensual thickness.
Sharp lines (always the drawing) are barely attenuated by the science of the passages. Shadows sometimes lie between the volumes.
The memory of the artist's struggle to achieve reality as creation lies there.
Sylvia Rhud can tell a story. She never leaves the allegory. In other words, the secret of CLASSICISM.
Pascal Payen Appenzeller Poet, writer, critic.