Art Residency - 2022/2023

Olympe Racana-Weiler is a French-Argentine multidisciplinary artist born in 1990 who lives and works in Paris.

Her practice is characterised by a dynamic interplay of colour, material and gesture that bridges abstraction and figuration through expressive mark‑making and meticulous craft. She works across painting, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics, supported by advanced training in lithography, woodcut, ceramics, and bronze casting at leading studios in Europe and the United States, including Michael Woolworth’s studio, the Steindruck Printing Studio in Austria, the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, and the Blue Mountain Fine Art Foundry and also alongside American artist, Jim Dine.

Since 2013, Racana-Weiler has exhibited internationally in France, Belgium, Romania, and Singapore. Her solo exhibitions include NEON DRIVING (2019) and Something About Silence (2021) at Galerie Eric Dupont in Paris, Behind the Eyes (2021) at Cuturi Gallery in Singapore, and Journal (2023) at the GGL Foundation in Montpellier. Her work is held in public and private collections across Europe, Asia, and the United States, and has been reviewed in ArtPress, Télérama, Artforum, Numéro, and Le Journal du Dimanche.

Art Residency – 2022/2023

During her residency at Gate 44, the artist Olympe Racana-Weiler focused on a series of works on paper combining large-scale monotype silkscreens and woodcuts, deeply immersed in the process of self-discovery through image-making while adopting new technical solutions and aesthetic directions.

The work of Racana-Weiler is the result of a bodily process, gestures are the result of a movement given by the body that acts on the support (canvas, paper etc.). Indeed her artworks show an ongoing relationship between body and living matter, they show the result of an evolving process and are characterised by vibrant and bright colors that recall the redundant and scenographic baroque style. The relation with the raw matter and the importance of the process are elements extremely linked to artisanal production. Her xylography is, for example, a manifestation of the gesture that becomes an engraved sign, a muscular approach that penetrates and dissolves into the matter. As the artist affirmed in a conversation with Jim Dine: “my painting is like a living body but it’s not representational.”

Silkscreen & woodcut on Hahnemühle natural white 350 g/m, paper
Print size 106 x 146 cm
Unique exemplary
Signed by the artist
2023
Price: 4 500 €

COSMIC WOOD

Woodcut printing on Hahnemühle paper 350 g/m²
145×106 cm (paper)  138×98 cm (plate)
2023
Price: 1 600 €

LES MURS DU TEMPLE

Woodcut printing on Hahnemühle paper 350 g/m²
145×106 cm (paper)  138×98 cm (plate)
2023
Price: 1 600 €

EL KIOSKO

Woodcut printing on Hahnemühle paper 350 g/m²
145×106 cm (paper)  138×98 cm (plate)
2023
Price: 1 150 €

Printmaking assistance: Nicolas Muratore, Julia Ozherelieva – Frame: Marta Netti – Photos: Fulvio Orsenigo and Erica Monzali