Chants de Couleur

In the first solo exhibition of 2025, Under The Mango Tree is pleased to present “Chants de Couleur” by the artist Adeline Meilliez (*1981). Born in France and based in Berlin since 2010, Adeline primarily works with the silkscreen printing technique – a medium that gained significant attention in Western art history, especially during the Pop Art movement. While reproducibility was central to the Pop Art era, Adeline focuses exclusively on unique pieces in this exhibition. Her stencils are not fixed but made of recycled paper, which she cuts, arranges in collage-like compositions, and cannot reuse after printing.

The exhibition “Chants de Couleur” showcases two series by the artist, illustrating a process of abstraction from the inspiration of colorful French landscapes to the intention of isolating coloritself. In her Botanical series, artist Adeline Meilliez questions the way we create and perceive images today. Working directly with plants, she captures their shadows using a photographic process that is an integral part of screen printing. Inspired by the cyanotype, this process uses sunlight to capture the trace and shape of plants, going beyond representation to recapture their essence. Adeline composes her works by integrating paint and color, creating vibrant, organic images that celebrate the vitality of nature. Her work becomes a transfer of sensibility, a unique language in which shadow, light and paint blend to offer a poetic and intimate vision of the plant world.

In the second room, the artist gradually detaches herself from the floral motif, opening up to a new, more abstract approach, yet closer to the idea of landscape. Color becomes the real subject, the very essence of the work. She draws her inspiration from memories of her childhood, the Landscapes that have shaped her imagination: the lavender fields of Provence, the bright yellow of sunflowers in the sun, and the deep blue of the Mediterranean. This deep connection with light is transformed in her work into a search for pure sensitivity, far from simple representation. The artist prefers to explore color itself as vibrant, fluid and interactive form that overlaps and intertwines through the interplay of transparency and light. She translates this experience into her prints by layering colored surfaces and exploring the interactions between pigments.

The artist chooses silkscreen as her primary medium for its ability to gently diffuse color. The silkscreen frame is free of any specific pattern, allowing the color to spread across the silk, blending and revealing its own texture. Each canvas becomes an accumulation of layers, with colors interacting and creating subtle, complex harmonies, much like a visual symphony. Color, as a universal language, allows the artist to break away from concrete forms and explore a more intangible and invisible dimension of art.

Adeline Meilliez earned her diploma in Communication Design in 2006 from the renowned Haute École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg (France). She then completed a master’s degree in Textile Design at the École des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse in 2008. Her works have been exhibited and collected internationally, including in France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, USA and China.