Vert Véronèse 

Editor: This is Gerard Fromanger's screenprint, "Vert Véronèse." It’s a scene of a Parisian street, cast in this striking green hue with a few figures highlighted in red and brown. It almost feels like a stage set, this deliberate artifice. What strikes you most about it? Curator: The green is key, right? The title explicitly references Veronese Green, a pigment laden with art historical baggage, a color of artifice in and of itself. Layered onto a photographically derived urban scene, it reads to me like Fromanger asking: How do we see, really see, in an image-saturated world? Editor: So it's not just a street scene. It's a commentary on…seeing? Curator: Precisely! And who is seeing? The silhouetted figure, for one, maybe us too. Fromanger was deeply invested in ideas of collective experience, influenced by May '68, so I see it as a critical gesture, exposing how media and power structures shape our perception of reality. Notice the ghostly mannequins and bourgeois shoppers inside the "Galerie 9". It seems he’s suggesting a very fraught relationship between representation, consumerism and class. Editor: I see what you mean. The green, that artificial color, kind of pollutes the everyday reality. And that tension is the point. Curator: Exactly. Fromanger, for me, consistently reminds us that the everyday is never truly "natural". Editor: That's really insightful. I’ll definitely look at Fromanger differently now. Thank you! Curator: My pleasure!