Artists

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  Degann

  Née en 1989 à Amsterdam
  Vit à : Amsterdam
  Travaille à : Amsterdam

  Degann is the artist pseudonym for Anne de Groot. Her paintings and watercolours search for ‘the spirit’ and emotion.
  ‘Our perception has many subjective filters; spirit, body, memory. Because of paintings’ array of possibilities, from depiction to total abstraction, it has the ability to surpass these filters and reach someone on an emotional level. My paintings show traces of emotion, power, vulnerability and reality. I realize this by combining techniques and distorting watercolours with smudges, which creates tension with reality. Therefore the spectator doesn’t focus on the likeness and recognition, but on the emotion. I look for attractive perspectives, vivid and approachable images but give them a dark edge. I work in inviting colours, but by taking a longer and closer look, a certain discomfort becomes apparent. This abrasiveness triggers a reaction with the spectator. Above all I’m looking to stimulate the senses and invite into a real experience of the images. I play with tension between beauty, esthetics and raw emotion.’ (The multiple layers in the paintings create an elusive form, like light the works are simultaneously fleeting and present.)

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  Vladimir Skoda

  "As soon as I became interested in art, I focused mainly on the accuracy and precision of observation of nature and the cosmos. First I described the volume of the model with the line, then with the wire. Until I realised, first unconsciously and then consciously, that the line is a fiction. What really exists is the mass, the matter. The head is above all a sphere."

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  Caisa Sandgren

  Born in 1994, Caisa Sandgren is a Swedish artist living in Paris. She studied for five years at the EnsBA Paris in the studio of Dominique Gauthier.
  
  "The piece is a direct access to the intimate space of each of us where our dreams, memories and fears are revealed. It has been a way for me to explore these subjects from different angles and to treat them from a personal point of view.
  In the series presented here, these are spaces in which I have lived before. I use them as inspiration for themes such as loneliness, the passing of time and mortality. In a way, I am reworking the ghosts that linger in the memory of these places.
  On the other hand, an important subject is the receptacle that contains all these memories and fears, namely our bodies. Our emotions are attached to the organic fabric of our being and I use this idea of emotional flesh in my more recent work.
  Many of the questions I ask myself through the artwork are about the idea of the intimacy of a body in its space."

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  Jacques Bosser

  Jacques Bosser was born in 1946 in Le Havre. Lives and works in Montrouge.
  Jacques Bosser is a painter and photographer, but for the past few years he has also been combining the two techniques in extremely original mixed works that he calls "photo-paintings\.
  \In my work combining photography and painting, I seek to establish a symbiosis between two mediums, each of which has its own mode of production and which are read with different codes. The aim is to create a global work that can be perceived at a glance. The attention is first attracted by the naked body in black and white, a body offered directly to the eyes, a sexualised, sometimes eroticised body. But this tension is mitigated by the colour and the pictorial material which envelop the object of desire with a certain sensuality, thus offering an escape, a breath.
  In the Outre-mer series, the photographic staging takes up the erotic attitudes imposed on indigenous women appearing on colonial postcards from Africa and the Maghreb. The female body was thus offered to the desires and submission of the Western man. It responded to the fascination of the exotic indigenous body seen and fantasised by the Metropolis. Moorish bodies unveiled, Orientalist-style photographs of lascivious women. The exotic imaginary of the black body from slavery to colonisation has long fed our fabrication of fantasised images.

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  Tom Sam

  Born in Agen, in 1981.
  
  Winner of the 2021 Individual Creation Grant, awarded by the DRAC Occitanie, he is currently developing a project previously initiated by an artistic residency in Vietnam, the country of origin of his grandparents. It questions family ties, the notion of exile and "home".

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  Jean Le Gac

  Born in Alès in 1936. Lives and works in Paris.
  
  The painter of a saga that is none other than that of the painter - a dreamed figure, between fiction and memories, an alter ego projected into an elsewhere that owes as much to the museum as to the popular literature of his childhood - Jean Le Gac was also, at the end of the 1960s, the man who decided to abandon all classical pictorial ambitions. Invited to the Individual Mythologies at the Documenta in Cassel in 1972, he relayed the activities of this \"virtual painter\" through a narrative, in images and words, not without mixing in elements from his own biography.
  
  After having "plundered" sanctuaries by depicting their treasures, put painting to death by dressing up as a lying toreador, or added his accessories to his file, his novelistic enterprise has since led him to track down Picasso and Braque even in his own domestic space - there again, the subject of a fiction, that of being a museum in his turn.
  
  Jean Le Gac in a few exhibitions :
  1978 Le Peintre, Exposition Romancée, Jean Le Gac, MNAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris
  2004 Photo, texts and recent works, Galerie Templon, Paris.
  2009 Jean Le Gac, l\'Effraction douce (comm. Evelyne Artaud), Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence.
  
  His works are present in important public collections such as the MNAM -Centre Pompidou, Paris, the MUMOK, Vienna, the SMAK, Gent, the MAMAC, Nice, the Fondation Cartier pour l\'art contemporain, Paris, the Musée d\'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, the Abattoirs, Toulouse and the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence.

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  Valota

  Valota is a French artist with Italian origins. He works in his studios in Montreuil-sous-Bois (just outside Paris) and in Normandy.
  He works with wax, a unique medium that he masters with fire and fusion. A recent monograph "WAX" published by Editions du Regard, Paris, retraces his singular work.
  In 2014, Valota was at La FIAC in Paris showing paintings in wax and pigments from his latest series "Bloom & Vanity" and "Arborescence".
  He has showed his work in galleries in Paris, London, and Istanbul, notably alongside Andy Warhol (Fondation Absolut Vodka), Bernar Venet, Bustamente and Frank Stella (Riff Art Projects, Istanbul), Cruz Diez, Vasarely (Lavignes Bastille, Paris)...

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  Nasser Al Aswadi

  Nasser Al Aswadi was born on 4 October 1978, in the village of al Hujr, not far from Taiz, the third largest city in Yemen. He lived in his village until he was 16 years old. Later, he studied architecture in Taiz and then in Sana'a. He exhibited his first works in Sana'a in 2001. Since 2008, Nasser has been going back and forth between Yemen and France. For Nasser Al Aswadi, calligraphy is a way of expressing feelings and thoughts without being specifically linked to language. He uses Arabic letters, words and shapes as well as religious and musical references. The wide variety of meanings and styles feeds the artist's creativity.

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  Bertrand Gruyer

  Born in 1961

  Lives and works in Colombes

  My images are simple fragments of reality, photographs never retouched or even cropped after the shooting. It is painting that gave me the need to make pictures, the abstract painting that impresses my retina since my childhood. At first I wanted to collect the wild abstract paintings I found on my way but very quickly, the adjustment of the framing revealed itself as a compositional tool to \"draw\" images. I began to explore all sorts of random shapes to make them my own and my creative material, chasing the most insignificant subjects to transfigure them into doors for the imagination. My images don\'t say what they show, they usually don\'t even say what they are. They appeal to the ability we all have to recreate what we see by interpreting it. I am looking for this creative vertigo, this subjectivity of the gaze that puts a filter on our consciousness, like an endless dance balanced on the border between reality and imagination.

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  Hamida Ouassini

  Painting helps Hamida Ouassini to better understand life and her feelings. The current works of the Belgian artist reflect the person she is today and express her aesthetic and existential concerns. The choice of color depends entirely on her mood and is never random. She explores various themes through series and paintings using acrylics on linen.

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  Sandra Ghosn

  Born in 1983 in Chiyah, Lebanon
  Lives and works in Paris
  
  One of the earliest occurrences of the word Rasm (or \'drawing\' in Arabic) is in the poetry of Imro\' AlQais (500-550). It means the imprint, the remnant of the loved one in the sand.
  Guided by this transcription, I draw to connect images, carefully buried in my memory, to the cosmic Intelligence.
  For me, the line may represent a happy path towards an area of junction, sharing and continuity.
  
  Sandra Ghosn

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  Bardig

  Born in Lebanon in 1963, Bardig is an award-winning artist and photographer based in Paris for over 30 years. He is a graduate of The New York Institute of Photography. After decades of work on the theme of Armenia, and the Armenian genocide, Bardig explores the city with the same sensitivity. It is thanks to the photographic treatment carried out with his softwares that the poetry of photography reveals all its beauty to bewitch us and to draw us into an interior world rich in sensations, showing the limits of the visible and the possibilities to see beyond.

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  Sophie Bernard

  Sophie Bernard was born on June 23, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Seine) is a French painter, sculptor and scenographer.
  
  Painter, she lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine. After graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she joined "La Ruche" in 1969, which was built by Jean Eiffel for the 1889 World Exhibition, a place of refuge between the two wars for many renowned artists of the 20th century. She works there in painting, drawing, sculpture, and creates installations inspired by Greek mythology. Some of his works were used for stage productions. Most of his works will be presented in galleries and will integrate into private collections or museums (Modern Arts of Paris, Musée d'Epinal, Centre Pompidou, Fonds National, Elysée... Her artistic research and interest in art history, particularly for the Italian Renaissance, led her to reside in Venice in 2011, where she created "Tintoretto messo in scena", an installation inspired by Tintoretto; she exhibited it at the Scuola San Teodoro in Venice in 2012. In 2014 in Florence she continues on this path and creates from the Hell of Dante, Terza Rima, a work... that she exhibits – also in Venice the following year, in 2015. Back in France, in 2019, it is in tribute to the castaways and to Géricault that she creates a series of large paintings 'Migrations'...

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  Caroline Coppey

  Whether her works are series, digital films, installations or paintings, whether they are exhibited in a gallery or placed in a context (garden, architecture, stage), painting is the common thread of Caroline Coppey’s work, according to a claimed filiation with artists like Monet for his approach to color and his global conception of art practice, Viallat and Support-Surface for their deconstruction of the painting, Penone and Long for their questioning of the relationship between art and nature, Opalka for highlighting the concept in the work. n
  
  Since 1998, she has set up a particular mode of creation, the Uniqueness of color, which consists in isolating each color to then decline it in an organic process, reusing this unique shade in an infinite cascade of actions: Squares, Drops, Samples, Floors, Rags, Chords, Palettes, Colors, Fabrics, Paintings, Crumpled, Casts, Broken, digital works... all from the same matrix source.
  
  Every year, she creates at least one personal exhibition, by designing a specific work for the place, for example, during the last five years: Maison Impressionniste Claude Monet, Argenteuil / Jardin Botanique, Saint-Jean-du-Doigt /La Galeru, Fontenay-sous-Bois / L'atelier -Jardins de l'Abbaye, Argenteuil (catalogue) / La Pharmacie, Cultural Space of the Hospital, Tonnerre (catalogue)
  
  His works are in private collections in Europe, the USA, Japan, Israel, in the public collections of the Barrois Museum, the contemporary art collection of Hénin-Beaumont, the city of Stains, the Spring Arts of Monte-Carlo, the Monaco Stamp Museum, from the Artothèque du Lot, from the Centre Hospitalier du Tonnerrois and in the corporate collections of Tilder, Vinci Immobilier and Workman Turnbull.
  
  Attached to the dialogue with the other artistic disciplines, and in particular the music, Caroline Coppey realized the scenography of the festivals Les Musicales, October in Normandy, Chamber Music in Giverny and Days of Pont-Ar-Gler. In 2005, she conceived a show with the cellist Marc Coppey which was given at the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) and revived in Belgrade and Le Havre in 2007. She participated in 2008 in the concert for the 100th anniversary of Elliott Carter given by the ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva with the video projection of the digital work Mosaic. In 2017, the work by Michèle Reverdy, Un violon pour Caroline, composed from a suite of nine Palettes, is created by Emmanuel Coppey in front of Le Grand Voile at the Philharmonie des Couleurs. In 2019, she created eight digital works for the eight musical creations of the show 7 Femmes et +, imagined by mandolinist Florentino Calvo.
  
  In 2012 was founded AO2C, the Association of Friends of the Work of Caroline Coppey, whose objective is to support her work and contribute to its influence.
  
  In 2013 is published by L'Harmattan the book taken from his doctorate in History, Theory and Practice of the Arts, Claude Monet: At the school of the eye. In 2014, the artist’s book Bleu jour was published, with poems by Benoît Gréan, reissued as a limited edition in 2022.
  
  Since 2021, Caroline Coppey has established a partnership with the NGO Jiboiana and donates 5% of her sales to this association which contributes to defending the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and to reforestation.
  
  In 2023, Caroline Coppey is invited to present her works at the Maison Impressionniste Claude Monet in Argenteuil and its garden, then in Geneva for her first solo exhibition at the ART NOW projects gallery.
  
  Caroline Coppey lives in Paris and works in Choisy-le-Roi. She is represented by the gallery 

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  Anna Stein

  Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936
  1954-1956 Studies at the School of Fine Arts, Budapest
  1957-1962 Studies at the School of Fine Arts, Paris n
  
  student of Jean SOUVERBIE and Jean AUJAME, fresco section.
  
  The work of ANNA STEIN' is open on history and poetry, on myth, narrative and emotion, on memory and instinct.
  
  She also recognizes that the history of painting merges with its own history, from which could only emerge a single work, marked by strong traces of the past. Mystery, joy, drama, expectation, hope and pictorial matter are consubstantial. Anna Stein’s work extends today over forty years of creation and is rooted in the Metamorphosis.
  
  Lydia HARAMBOURG - 1999

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  Chiara Stefani

  Chiara Stefani is a contemporary Italian artist based between Paris and northern Italy, who combines traditional techniques such as oil on canvas and graphite on paper but with a contemporary perspective. Her work is structured on the representation of feminine. The main concept is to focus on those qualities like gentleness and vulnerability that are not synonymous with weakness. Our society always rewards men’s approaches valuing individualism, aggressiveness and analytical thinking as good attributes to achieve success. It is time to reverse the trend, to empower the feminine side that is inside each of us, to generate a more creative, nurturing and loving world.” In her paintings, she tries to recreate this feeling of empowerment and brotherhood, to capture the innate the strength and complexity of women and envision the nature of connection. Throughout the representation of ordinary people, she wants to explore the kaleidoscope of emotion that can be found in the human face.
  
  In his works, women are very charismatic, often depicted looking forward without a smile and introspective expressions. She certainly also finds inspiration in her various travels around the world, notably in Southeast Asia, where she lived for a few years, and the Middle East. She spends countless hours working on her paintings trying to represent that specific feeling taken from that defined moment in order to connect deeply and more intimately with the viewer.
  
  Born in 1986 in Italy, she began exploring the arts of expression at an early age. She studied fine arts and she graduated in art Cultural heritage conservation in Venice, and this paved the way for her career in the field of art, allowing him to experiment with different techniques and study materials used by artists centuries ago until the last techniques.
  
  Her figurative and hyper-realistic style allows her to express in the highest form the concept she wants to represent on canvas.

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  Philippe Le Guillou

  This Breton is fascinated by stones, menhirs and dolmens, which stimulate his imagination and inspiration. His father, often away at sea, left him his workbench and tools. At the age of 17, he tackled an oak log with a chisel and a drill - his first sculpture. At 24, in the magical forest of Brocéliande, he carved tortuous stumps. After many long journeys, he settled in La Cadière d\'Azur.
  
  It was through his many travels that Philippe found his inspiration. In the USA, he discovered the art totems of the native Indians, and in Morocco, the craftsmen of Essaouira encouraged him as an artist.
  
  The art of sculpture is present everywhere: Sri Lankan temples, Polynesian tikis, Madagascan mahafale tombs and Maori pirogues.
  
  The masks of African art have deeply moved him with their emotional and mystical charge. Ever since he was a child, he has observed the sky, the geometry of stars and galaxies as well as molecules, a question of scale. For him, the best artist is Nature, and the wind-sculpted rocks of Antarctica, the rock formations of Tassili or a simple pool of dried mud offer as much inspiration as the sea.
  
  He admires artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Matta, Eduardo Chillida, Archipenko, Constantin Brancusi, Marx Ernst, César, Antony Gormley, Armand..., and the masters of contemporary Aboriginal art.
  
  He is passionate about all materials, each with its own specificity.

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  Céline Sassatelli

  Collage is 'art in motion that challenges painting' as emphasized by Aragon.
  For me, it results from an irrepressible impulse and a vital impulse that draws on my personal mythology.
  To tear, crumple, paste, fold is to write with images, it is to paint without drawing, it is to invent a world, it is 'sticking' to the world.
  Self-taught artist, I have always collected images, I use old period newspapers, magazines, books from which I draw my models.
  I always find the need to deal with 4 elements:
  The torn posters or magazine pages cut out in pieces
  the graphic backgrounds between 50 and 60 with geometric shapes, color harmonies, a universal aestheticism
  the woman (from the 30s to the 70s)