Malaurie Auliac, alias Malo A, born in Burgundy in 1980.
Her work is a journey through wildlife that she paints in a realistic and naturalistic manner.
Like Orthodox religious icons, her bestiary seems to be embedded in gold, silver or copper, covering the bottom of most of her paintings, as if to venerate this often mistreated nature.
Her work is inspired by traditional Japanese art, notably through Byōbu (wind walls), screens painted on paper and gilded with leaf. She also loves the decorative art of the 1930s and the works of great animal painters such as Paul Jouve and Gaston Suisse, who, like her, emphasize the aesthetics of the animal by flexible and powerful lines.
Malo A. is expressed in a graphic pictorial technique, close to hyperrealism. Her art is a subtle blend of ancient know-how applied to a modern creation that gives life to her paintings on wood. This original approach and sensitivity have developed over the years through numerous trips, encounters, studies and training.
Her animals are imbued with a sweetness, which could be interpreted as melancholy, but whose only intention is to evoke the deepest of every living being. It is an invitation to contemplate them, to dialogue with them. They question us, challenge us, touch us... The golden backgrounds, sometimes reworked with painting, plunge us into a dreamlike world that completes the animal to share its dreams and to look, perhaps finally, in the same direction.