Isabella Ducrot’s Practice Remains Rooted in the Quiet Power of Materials

Isabella Ducrot’s work is a hymn to the veneration and economy of materials. Her delicate paintings, in their materiality and process, carry a nostalgic resonance—an echo of bygone eras that transports us to an alternative artisanal retro-time, when life moved in closer harmony with nature’s rhythms. They conjure a world in which human existence flowed in seamless alignment with the earth’s pulse, a bucolic and primordial dimension that inspires and sustains her new works. Now 94, the celebrated...