Michèle Grosjean - Aludel

 
Michèle Grosjean – Aludel, 1997
Oil on canvas
In Aludel, Michèle Grosjean transforms the surface of the canvas into a site of alchemical meditation. Earth tones—ochre, amber, and shadowed brown—evoke both mineral density and luminous suspension, as if the work itself were forged from dust and light. The title refers to the aludel, a vessel used by medieval alchemists in their search for transmutation—a perfect metaphor for Grosjean’s practice, where matter is continuously refined into spirit, gesture into silence.
Trained under Serge Vandercam, Grosjean engages painting as a process of revelation rather than representation. Her abstract fields retain traces of mythical inquiry: labyrinths, symbols, and fragments of archetypal stories that emerge and recede like memories in sediment.
Aludel stands as a quiet invocation—an image of transformation, where the visible becomes a threshold toward the invisible.
 
66 x 52 cm