In full heart of Vevey (Vaud – Switzerland), to the one of the doors of the old city, the tower-door “to the Wind or to the Green” opening on the Town square, a gallery fits in a construction whose work of restoration updated fragments of fortifications of the 13th century.

Pierre and Joelle Clement collectors, have invested in this house to present Australian Aboriginal art in Europe. Challenge and passion related to a thorough knowledge of artists of the Australian desert and their thousand-year-old culture. They open to the public a door privileged on the territories of the Dreams.

In the CLEMENT Gallery, hung vertically, the visions of the Australian “Dream” invite to aesthetic reflection renewing the immediate interest for pointillists abstractions and gestural.

Let us point out the framework of creations. Under a venerated tree or in big rooms, on the ground, the Aboriginals paint with the brush held vertically as for Chinese painting. Sinuous trajectories, closed forms launched without draft weave networks or are covered with an infinity of points of colors. Certain paintings are only structured by points of varied nuances and intensity, ultimately giving the aspect of a floral tapestry or of a constellated sky.

The composition in points reveals remote volumes, depths, even of the secret tracks, unperceivable condensations. The desert that the Aboriginals represent thus is a territory where each flowering, each relief of ground, each hole of invisible water is in charge of vital direction. The tracks of the animals, the shrubs, the medicinal plants and water have a practical and crowned importance.

It is thus about taking out the glance of all associations of ideas stylistics, ethnographic or realistic. We are in the presence of a form of art “all other” whose intrinsic quality is apprehended then as an original artistic movement which reaches us in all the purity of the inspiration of true creators.