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Artist Exhibitions:
2008 NG ART GALLERY, "Food for
Thought"
2007 THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL
AWARD, SH Erwin Gallery
2006 NATIONAL PORTRAIT
GALLERY, Canberra, recent
acquisitions
2006 CHARLES HEWITT GALLERY,
'Four views', landscape show
2006 WILLOUGHBY ART PRIZE
2006 THE PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL
AWARD, SH Erwin Gallery
2005 ARTHOUSE HOTEL, SYDNEY,
PAA EXHIBITION
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Artist Galleries:
Charles Hewitt Gallery, 300
Glenmore Rd, Paddington 2021,
Sydney Australia...
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Artist Reviews:
'Yoli is a serious artist,
with a soft but distinctive
touch...'
John McDonald, Art writer,
Sydney 2003
'Yoli Salmona harponne
l'invisible qui se love au
sein du visible. Elle montre
l'attente, le secret, en se
maintenant sur la ligne de
crête d'un réalisme qui,
finalement...
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Collections:
National Portrait Gallery of
Australia
Dayko Group
Ferrier Hodgson collection
Waverley Council
Pacific Bank, USA
Mariott Hotels, USA
Private collections,
Australia, Europe, Tahiti,
Japan, USA
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Commissions:
20 paintings for Dayko Group,
commissioned
Editions Flammarion, Paris
Ferrier Hodgson, Sydney
Poster Editions, Sydney
Edition Habit Press, Sydney
Private portrait commissions,
Australia, France...
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Artist Statement for Yoli Salmona
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SUNLIGHT AT THE END OF AN AFTERNOON....
Sunlight in the late afternoon is a catalyst for intense feelings...a longing and an elation at the same time.
SNOW
The landscape of my childhood was covered with snow all winter, but I longed for the sea. Today I am at home in Australia, and because of rising temperatures, snow could soon be a distant memory...I have become passionate about painting snow landscapes.
AERIAL VIEWS
A landscape has a different beauty from the air, more poignant and more objective in its apparent immobility.The aerial perspective allows me to look at the patterns in a more abstract way, whether formal (for instance, a cultivated field) or natural.
From reality I select details and elements- mostly trees and shadows- and re-order them, moving them around like tesserae in a mosaic. The long shadows created in the late afternoon fascinate me particularly. Observation and imagination both play their part.
CLOUDS
After a visit to a recent Constable exhibition, I felt compelled to add clouds to my landscapes. During the long summer evenings of my childhood in Alsace, I had this ritual: sitting on a wall with an ice-cream stick, looking at the clouds after sunset. Choosing one as my throne, and mentally inhabiting the sky.
PORTRAITS
When painting a portrait I first aim to create a strong presence, a feeling for an actual person.
And I look for an ambivalence between the present moment and the next one, like the passage between one expression and another, an invitation to a question. Hoping to reach a classical timelessness, a painting beyond the subject's present circumstance.
BACKGROUND
Born in France, I was a clothes/costume designer for ten years before studying illustration at the Paris Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.
Paris Art Publisher Flammarion gave me the first of a series of commissions by Print and Card publishers (Flammarion in France, Artistsworks in the USA, Poster Editions and Habit Press in Australia) This work on paper was featured at Art Expo New-York every year between 1985 and 1990, and at the Toyama Museum's of Modern Art first Poster Triennale.
I worked and lived in Paris, Tunesia and Los Angeles, before settling in Sydney in 1986, where I taught myself to paint with oils. After a few years of running a business, I studied 'old masters' painting techniques in 1996 & 97, at the Charlie Sheard Studio School in Sydney.
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