TILLANDSIA

Marie-Line Dominique GOLDENBERG de LANDRIAN, called Tillandsia, was born in Neuilly sur Seine in 1959.

 

Her father was a photographer and an abstract painter with an established art studio in Place de Clichy in Paris, her mother was also a painter and a famous portraitist.

 

Tillandsia exhibited her first paintings at the age of 15  as part of a group of artists known as "the Painters of le Marais" for which  she received  the award "La Palme d'argent de l'encouragement public" from Jacques Chirac who was the Mayor of Paris at that time.

 

Tillandsia has been deeply inspired by studying modern and old masterpieces, combining these disciplines with personal life experiences into her work, by utilising the medium of paintbrushes, knives, paints, and canvas. The colours are often warm as the sun, the nectar of life, whilst sands from world travels are collected and blended into  paints to give depth and texture to the works to reflect the intense affinity that she has with the land.

 

Her paintings may be reflect thorough research and observation, while others then express temperament and emotional feeling. The simple descriptive terms that collectively combine to describe Tillandsia's works would be 'Colour',  Material, 'Discovery' and 'Temperament'. Now in having experimented and developed these mediums, her paintings representing ancient civilisations and the enduring love of nature. Mystery is omnipresent and pervades her work. Certain shades may symbolise Amerindian feathers, others may be reminiscent of the symbolic energy of Braque's doves.

 

The titles of Tillandsia paintings illustrate her continuous amazement at the beauties of this world and its multiple diverse cultures. In examining her pictures, they can enable one through symbolic, dreamful and historical singular movements to travel through space and time.

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A work of art becomes as quoted by Zola ''un coin de la  creation vu a travers un temperament'' (a corner of nature seen through a temperament).

 

Her paintings have been exhibited in various famous places such as l'Assemblee Nationale, rue de Seine  or La Place des Vosges in Paris.