Après coup — The calm endures
Après coup captures the delicate moment when everything has already unfolded yet something essential remains untouched.
In this work of contemporary poetic abstraction, Mariclair Plante juxtaposes a bold, calligraphic black gesture with a calm, atmospheric pictorial field. The richly layered surface reveals textures, fragments, and subtle collage elements that oscillate between presence and disappearance.
Despite the strength of the gesture, nothing collapses here. The painting breathes. It recenters itself. It holds.
Soft whites and misty blues create a luminous, enveloping space, while burnt earth tones and deeper accents suggest a past disturbance, one that has been integrated rather than resisted.
Après coup is not about rupture, but about what follows.
That quiet instant where balance re-emerges, where matter regains its calm without denying what has passed through it.A refined and expressive work where gestural energy meets restraint, embodying a contemporary approach rooted in tension, subtlety, and presence.
