It is difficult to decipher Martine Bligny's portraits, and yet with a simple look we recognize them, they are inscribed in our unconscious memory, they awake the characters made eternal by the Renaissance painters, the famous dutch painters which today arise from the past and become our uncanny reflection.

Facing these canvases, our emotion is intense, disturbing, takes our breath away; a rare emotion that grips the spectator.

The truth of these characters, their soft yet powerful presence are fascinating. Silence comes naturally in front of these faces - an interior silence which brings us back to what is essential, because Martine Bligny's painting is a deep exploration of the Self and demands a level of truth equal to the pictorial quality acquired after years of research.

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