julie mondor

Monotypes & Fine Arts

The monotype

Monotype is a non-engraved printing process that produces a single print run. The technique originated in Italy, invented by G.B. Castiglione in 1648.

It’s a print, a work obtained after manual pressing. Thanks to the apparent simplicity of this technique and the fact that the single print is executed́ by the artist himself, the character of an original work is accentuated.

Julie Mondor prefers the unique and the irreproducible.

This reflects her taste for renewal, research and the possibility of letting herself be surprised.

As in her music, Julie Mondor takes advantage of this to express a relationship with the world that scrutinizes living matter in all its states, magnifying it and revealing other levels of reality.

Materials and plants are gleaned, collected, dried or torn, put to the test, until an image is created.

She likes to work in successive layers, with concealment, in temporalities that stretch. Compositions appear in a play of transparency. The resulting work is permeated by multiple realities.
Like an alchemical quest, it’s a matter of making contact with Materia Prima….