In the autumn of 2014, Fabienne Verdier was invited to leave her studio to become the first visual artist in residence at the Juilliard School in New York. Immersed in this prestigious institution, she engaged in a series of experiments alongside professors and students. Within this environment shaped by rhythm, breath, and sonic intensity, Verdier sought to capture the energies of music, translating its invisible forces into pictorial gestures.
At the heart of her research was the possible synchronicity between music and painting.
As she explains: "I have always heard in the painted line something of the sonic line. I have always perceived, in the sonic line, something of a pictorial construction."
White Melody, created in 2015, is one of the works resulting from this series. It conveys the gesture, intensity, and expressive power of the artist’s practice. The title directly refers to musical notation, while the ink splashes evoke the appearance of a musical score, as if sound itself were transcribed into movement and rhythm on the surface of the painting.
- Alessio Palmeri