Missing in Action

may-july 2012

Galerie Laure Roynette
20 rue de Thorigny . 75003 Paris .

From May to July 2012, Galerie Laure Roynette showed new works by Anne Cindric in an individual exhibition entitled “Missing in action”, as well as the book “Abécédaire de campagne” – Anne Cindric by Jean-Yves Jouannais, written by the former editor-in-chief of art press and creator of “L’Encyclopédie des guerres” at the Centre Pompidou.
The American term “Missing in action”, or MIA, refers to soldiers reported lost in battle. Why the title? Anne Cindric’s paintings are full of testosterone-fuelled fighters who “are no strangers to action”. Each painting shows a fine, brutal male, or more if compatible… They infiltrate bucolic little landscapes inspired by Toile de Jouy, floral settings, or emerge from the heart of decorative medallions. Ultimately, however, these fierce soldiers are perhaps submerged in, engulfed by this feminine and mannered little universe. Whichever, it is a female take on supermen, a breed adulated but overwhelmed.