Abstract artist Fabienne Verdier exhibits at Château Lynch-Bages

Every year, since 1989, the Cazes family, which owns Chateau Lynch-Bages, has invited internationally renowned artists to exhibit their work on the estate, thanks to the support of the Galerie Lelong & Co.

In recent years, the estate’s cellars have welcomed Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Günther Förg, James Brown, Antonio Tàpies, Pierre Alechinsky, Barthelemy Toguo and Jan Voss. This year the privilege was awarded to Parisian abstract artist Fabienne Verdier whose career has been marked by encounters with the thought structures of different periods and cultures.

Following the completion of her degree Fabienne, who went on to study painting, aesthetics and philosophy at the Sichuan Fine Arts institute in China, completed a series of paintings for the Fondation H.Looser in Zurich which focused on abstract expressionism. This was the first of many exhibitions in Europe, as the artist now counts works in numerous collections including the MNAM Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, the Pinault collection in Paris, France and Venice, Italy, as well as in Munich and Zurich.

In 2019, after a retrospective held in her honour at the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, France organised a major exhibition in 2022 entitled “le Chant des étoiles”, which brought together works by the artist in a dialogue with older masterpieces. Its success saw the exhibition extended and we’re therefore not in the least surprised to hear the artist will now be taking over Château Lynch-Bages’s historic vat room and the new cellars designed by architect Chien Chung Pei to exhibit 18 paintings from Marielle Sardar’s collection until the end of October 2023.

Offering visitors a truly immersive experience, the collection named “The Motion of Matter”has been developed using a very personal form of expression, echoing the gestural brushstrokes of the great abstract expressionist painters, while always observing and listening to the rhythms of the surrounding world. Comparable to Jackson Pollock, but on a different scale, Fabienne Verdier’s work showcases a telluric force contrary to the spidery dripping characteristic of the American artist. This gesture unique to the artist is inspired by the natural forces that surround us such as: lightening in the sky, currents in the river, the vein of a rock, the burst of a bud. And much like the wine making process, whose product reflects its surrounding, Fabienne Verdier’s spirit is charged by the surrounding elements who move and run through her until she expels the energy bubbling insider her.