Virginie Schroeder

To understand Virginie Schroeder’s art work, the viewer must enter a world full of sensuality, fantasy and burlesque.

The characters, mostly portraits that are deformed, often subject to the size of her canvases, evolve into a festive, fantasy, dreamlike world, inspired from wild nights in Paris, cabarets, shows in Montreal…sensual characters that suit us in the magical, comical universe, sometimes intriguing and entrancing, where all boundaries and censorship have disappeared.

Her Paintings are like riddles or invitations that we feel and that we tame. As in fairytales, we must let ourselves be mesmerized by the goddesses sometimes wonderful, sometimes distressing.

Always in balance between realism and abstraction, her creations invite us to observe a play where magic, an invitation, limits, questioning takes place…a magical universe that makes us dream, that makes us question ourselves.

To create her work, Virginie Schroder uses a variety of techniques: collage, scraping, projections, drips ou allowing the paint to drip, gilding ou gold leaves, transfers, fabric collage and other materials to form a glaze resulting in a transparent lace.

The art work gives a multiple read, revealing progressively as we approach the art work, invisible textures and sensations, applied in a transparent harmony. Instinctive painter, dynamic and very energetic, spontaneity of her gestures is revealed through her work, her brush strokes, lines that are incomplete, and the energy of the strokes.

The process and the use of various mediums, acrylic, tempera, oil, pencil, pastel, airbrush, shellac, resine dammar etc…participate in the visual richness and the expression of the art work. Most of her paints and mediums are unique because they are handmade.