Van Hove - Van Hove - 2005

Editions d'art Charles Moreau:
Van Hove
French-English bilingual edition

Extremely rare and difficult to find in such excellent condition.

In every sense, her work is luminous. By her talent for capturing the photons that joyfully bounce off the skin of her models, of course; but also and especially by the obvious wonder that is ancient and shared, which she makes us rediscover. In her attempt to fix a moment of the perfection of earthly bodies one perceives ancient pagan overtones. Reminiscences of a time when men created gods in their own image. The mysteries of a perpetual renaissance: whose task is largely entrusted to the feminine aspect of Creation: flowers, women. This sense of wonder cannot help but mingle with astonishment, if not rebellion, at the inevitability of the ephemeral moment of greatest brilliance (and whose image nevertheless is set for life in the inner mirror of each one).

It remains that, through an uninterrupted sequence of revelations, a never-ending chain of subjugations, the world belongs to the girls. Because they are the world. Because its longevity rests in the depths of their soft bellies. Women recognize an essential part of their truth in these drawings and paintings. They discover there feelings that had never been expressed so clearly before. As for the girls, they can, for a moment, lay down their armors, lace, strings. Fighters and lovers on the outside, they finally find themselves alone in front of magical mirrors made of paper and canvases. And they are well for it."