Your Custom Text Here
Né à Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1967
Ecole du Louvre, Histoire de l'Art à Sorbonne-Paris, ENSAA-Duperré, Manufactures Nationales ; titulaire d'un diplôme du Centre Artisanal de la Terre
La céramiste Fabienne Auzolle a étudié les techniques de cuisson primitives au Burkina Faso et la faïence émaillée en Italie. Elle enseigne les arts plastiques et la céramique depuis 1990. Elle expose régulièrement à l'étranger (États-Unis, Norvège, Bruxelles, Corée, Singapour) et en France (notamment au Musée d'Art et d'Industrie Roubaix-La Piscine en 2014), et produit des oeuvres d'art luxuriantes "à toucher", qui mêlent cultures et siècles, et émanent de croyances et de mythes. Ses créations s'attachent principalement à retranscrire la puissance des éléments à traverser des figures en céramique émaillée , toutes consacrées aux femmes. Dans Déesse et mère, Femme-idole et Femme-Arbre de Vie, elle crée une image idéale, mystique et onirique de la Femme en majesté. Mais ses chiffres peuvent aussi être empreint de la légèreté, de la vitalité et de la causticité de la société féminine – en toute connaissance de cause à tout âge !
Glazed earthenware, private collection, London
Glazed earthenware, 40 x 51 x 10 cm, FAAU-001, private collection, London
Glazed eartheware, 43 x 20 x 9 cm, FAAU-011
Glazed earthenware, 38 x 15 x 8 cm
Born in Baghagha, Senegal, 1960
Lives and works in Osny, France
In 1978 Mamadou Cissé arrived in France at the age of 18, and started working in diverse jobs in industrial trade, design and bakery. An autodidact, he went back to his artistic practice in 2001 and started drawing during the long hours as a night watchman. Since then he draws imaginary cities, birds-eye perspectives, and futuristic visions, very colorful and rich in picturesque details. He creates his own world, fascinated by the world cities, their architecture, their urbanism and their energy. Mamadou Cissé believes in progress, better future and living conditions. He dreams ideal cities, with houses for all, and colors to spread Joy. “I am futuristic, forward ho!” says the visionary artist.
Since 2009, Mamadou Cissé has taken part in many exhibitions in institutions including Fondation Cartier, Paris, Dakar Biennale, Senegal, and Fondation Blachère, Apt, France.
Selected Permanent Collections
Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Museum of Everything, London, UK
Work on paper, pen, felt, gel, 40 x 50 cm
Pen, felt, gel on paper, 29.5 x 41.5 cm
Pen, felt, gel on paper, 30 x 40 cm
Pen, felt, gel on paper, 30 x 35 cm, private collection, Paris
Pen, felt, gel on paper, 50 x 65 cm
Work on paper, pen, felt, gel, 70 x 100 cm
Pen, felt, gel on paper
Pen, felt, gel on paper, 40 x 50 cm
Pen, felt, gel on paper, 24 x 34 cm
Work on paper, pen, felt, gel, 30 x 40 cm
Work on paper, pen, felt, gel, 30 x 40 cm
Born in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1948
Lives and works in Paris
Jill Galliéni works mainly in three directions—textile sculpture, drawing with needles and writing that becomes abstraction. She sculpts mysterious yarn-and-fabrics dolls to "build a universe running parallel to [her] reality.” They are huge and motionless, with or without eyes, turned inwards. "They are not on a human scale, they mustn't even look like humans. They are not our doubles, they are our spirit" says the artist. Since 2007, Galliéni has been placing women into groups; she sees them as "dancing souls". She also designs embroidered princesses, on sheer organdie. Their bodies gradually take shape with their features energetically sewn in a sort of electric writing. Alongside her dolls, Galliéni started writing and sewing prayers for Saint Rita, patron saint of lost causes. Illegible, automatic writing forms a design to become a composition. Galliéni’s ally, yarn, helps her to weave, regroup, design, link up, sew. "I get the impression that the innermost feelings, my contradictions and sources of joy are all reflected in my work.”
Jill Galliéni has been on display in personal and collective exhibitions in many institutions like Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Musée Art et Marges, Brussels, Belgium, Institut Français, New York and Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Selected Permanent Collections
Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Asq, France
Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers, France
La Fabuloserie, Dicy, France
Articles
Textile, 71 x 53 x 45 cm, private collection, Los Angeles
Textile, 68 x 65 x 41 cm
Textile, 24 x 30 x 15 cm
Textile, 26 x 24 x 16 cm, private collection, New York
Private collection, Paris
Textile, 21 x 22 x 16 cm
Left : Sirène I, plastic bags, 27 x 27 x 22 cm
Right : Sirène II, textile, 21 x 18 x 24 cm
Textile, 44 x 44 x 26 cm
Textile, 185 x 53 x 50 cm
Private collection, New York
Textile, 12 x 23 x 10 cm
Original work on paper, ink and pencil, 14.8 x 19.5 cm, private collection Paris
Original work on paper, ink and pencil, 14.8 x 19.6 cm, private collection Paris
Ink and pencil on paper, 13.1 x 20.9 cm
Ink and pencil on paper, 14.8 x 19.5 cm
Ink and pencil on paper, 14.8 x 19.5 cm
Ink and pencil on paper, 13.2 x 21 cm
Ink and pencil on paper, 13.2 x 21 cm, private collection, Bordeaux
Textile, 33 x 23 cm
Textile, 32 x 16 cm
Textile, 35 x 20 cm
Born in Strasbourg, France, 1945
Lives and works in Vernon, France
In 1969, Marie-Rose Lortet was encouraged by Dubuffet, who acquired some of her works and expressed his enthusiasm for her “small knittings.” Very early on, Lortet, who grew up watching her mother and grandmother knit, broke free from the utilitarian aspect of knitting to paint pictures in yarn. Lortet knits stories and gives them poetic or funny titles, with an eternal youth. She does not make preparatory drawings, nor have a canvas, allowing the work to spontaneously come into being. “Knitting lets the mind and the imagination take the time to travel and create pictures”, she says, “my yarn is my palette; I combine colors like a painter.” Bursting with creativity, Lortet might start and finish a work in a single go or, on the contrary, enjoy watching it come alive over a period of months. In fact, the artist has never completely finished the four series she goes back to whenever it strikes her fancy: Territoires de Laine, Les Masques, Architectures de Fil, and Miniatures.
Marie-Rose Lortet’s work is often presented in solo and collective exhibitions in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, Art Brut Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland, Musée de Vernon, France, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers.
Selected Permanent Collections
Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers, France
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
De Stadshof Collection, Dr Guislain Museum, Ghent, Belgium
La Fabuloserie, Dicy, France
French Contemporary Art Fund, Paris, France
Dammann Collection, Switzerland
Articles
Cotton thread, lace, 26 x 33 x 14 cm
Private collection, New York
Wool, cotton, silk, lace, 22 x 22 x 6 cm
Wool, cotton, silk, textile, 22 x 22 x 6 cm
Cotton, silk threads, 22 x 18.5 x 10 cm
Wool, cotton, silk threads
Born in Ouesso, Congo-Brazzaville, 1981
Lives and works in Brazzaville
Baudouin Mouanda is one of the most promising young photographers working in Africa. The man who defines himself as a "photographer of life" produces series imbued with realism, poetry and questionings. He started out in photography in 1993 when he was 12, earning a camera from his father for doing well in his studies. He rapidly began to capture life in Brazzaville, and was dubbed "Photouin.” Turning away from conformism and classical photography, he focused on the history of his country. His explorations led to his first, highly sensitive work, The Aftermath of War. In 2008, he photographed the most splendid "Sapeurs" of Brazzaville. Since then, the photographer has undertaken numerous residences abroad. In Libreville, Gabon, he developed his work, Hip Hop and Society. Initiated in 2011, his Pavement of Knowledge project shows the African students who seek refuge in what they call "the great library under the stars." Currently Mouanda focuses on the significance of marriage with Congolese Dreams.
Baudouin Mouanda has participated in exhibitions at many institutions including Musée Dapper, Paris, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, Fondation Blachère, Apt, “Rencontres de Bamako”, Mali, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, African Emerging Photography at the Joburg Art Fair, in Gabon and in Equatorial Guinea, Dakar Biennale, Senegal, and Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan. Voted Best Photographer by the Fine Arts Academy of Kinshasa, Baudouin Mouanda received many prizes and awards such as Fondation Blachère award, the Bolloré Young Talent prize, the silver medal in the seventh Jeux de la Francophonie, and was the winner for the Central Africa region in the “Beauty in Africa” photo competition staged jointly by the African Union and European Union.
Selected Permanent Collections
Contemporary African Art Collection-Jean Pigozzi, Geneva
Devereux Collection, London
Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Bolloré Logistics, Paris, France
Foundation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, eidtion of 10
C-print, 30 x 45 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 90 x 60 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 90 x 60 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 90 x 70 cm, edition of 10
C-print, 60 x 90 cm, edition of 10
The French Craft Project is not a concept but "a poetic art of life" defined by "nomadic" art objects whose excellence wavers between passion and reason!
These unique pieces are made by the contemporary heirs of 17th and 18th-century French craftsmanship.
Their singularity and outstanding materials combine the “beautiful” with the “useful”, the “exceptional” and the “unusual”.
These art-loving craftsmen and women are among the world's best feather-workers, straw marquetry inlayers, silversmiths, heraldic engravers…
The quintessence of Parisian chic can be found in today's most common and nomadic object, the suitcase! This revolutionary, beautiful, light, extremely elegant ambassador in titanium and carbon will cross the Channel to deliver its treasures in London, including crazy feathers, a rare silversmith's dish with 1950s pictorial accents, a precious box inlaid with gems like a jewel, an incredible silver teapot straight out of a Jules Verne novel, gigantic straw eggs, miniature embossed architecture, a theatre of characters made of enamel clay, contemporary silver and metal thread lace, infinite writing space or Continuum covered with parchment, a collection of performing insects…
The humorous, elegant exhibition is like a modern-day trip through Alice's Wonderland!
Anybody can invent a personal use for these intimate, whimsical, refined art objects. They turn every day into an adventurous journey and any house into a dream home. No talkative objects but visual, tactile, beautiful and unforgettable pieces. Catch the French Craft spirit!