| Saturday 17 May to Thursday 19 June 2003
Anne-Marie Pêcheur: "Plants and Pictures".
"
I was born in Nice in 1950. When I was 20, I came to Marseille,
where I spent five years at the School of Art and obtained a
diploma in engraving in 1975. I then lived in Bordeaux, where
I exhibited at the ARC, the CAPC, the Stevenson-Palluel Gallery,
Le Dessin Gallery… I lived in Paris in 1985, invited by
Centre Georges Pompidou, I lived there for six years, and exhibited
at the Biennale de Venise, Montenay-Delsol Gallery…
I visited Africa in 1989, New Caledonia in 1992. Since then I
have lived in Marseille and teach at the Higher School of Art." RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 Alibi, Moulins Albigeois, Cimaise and Portique, Albi
Le 19 Contemporary Art Centre, Montbéliard
2001 Dortin Deguet Rigal Gallery, Arles
Un Petit Pan de Ciel Bleu Association, Salon de Provence
2000 Art Jonction, Martagon Gallery, Nice
Montenay/Giroux Gallery, Paris "Colour is at the heart of Anne-Marie Pêcheur's
work. For the artist, colour is a living material which she
models
and transforms to give body to her paintings. There are no flat
tints or deliberate harmonies in the choice of her blends, but
on the contrary a tangle of curves and shapes which wind and
break up the surface in a vivid expression of thought and gesture.
Anne-Marie Pêcheur uses the canvas as a place of metamorphosis:
from shapes to plants and back again. The plant and flower motifs
are the soil of an art which fashions a garden from the delights
of paint, where countless shapes and feelings burst into bloom" (Text
by Jean-Christophe Bailly).
Friday 27 June to Thursday 31 July 2003
Vincent Bioulès: "Le Pic Saint-Loup", the other
Sainte-Victoire mountain.
Born in Montpellier in 1938. Lives and works in Montpellier.
He has taught painting in several Schools of Art, in particular
the Paris Higher School of Art until 1999. A member of the Supports/Surfaces
group in 1970, he left it in 1972 and gradually returned to figurative
art. Since 1976 he has painted traditional subjects: landscapes,
interiors, figures, portraits, nudes, scenes from mythology,
in the form of themes and variations.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 Recent works, Villa Tamaris, La Seyne sur Mer
Landscapes, Hélène Trintignan Gallery, Montpellier
Landscapes, Vidal-Saint Phalle Gallery, Paris
Paintings, 1967-2002, Château Borély, Marseille
2001 Recent works, Clermond-Ferrand Museum
2000 Au fil de l'eau (The Fountains of Aix), Tapestry Museum,
Aix-en-Provence
1999 Retrospective, Rhénan Contemporary Art Centre, Altkirch
1996 The Sea, Vacances Bleues, Marseille
COLLECTIONS
Georges Pompidou Centre
Bordeaux CAPC
Museums of Nice, Antibes, Toulon, Marseille, Montpellier, Saint-Etienne,
Strasbourg, etc
Vacances Bleues "An exploration of colour, space and shape, modelled by
experience and the love of art." Vincent Bioulès
belongs to the group of artists which revolutionised French painting
in the 1970s by creating the Supports/Surfaces movement which
challenged the foundations of painting in material, formal and
social terms. But he never broke his links with reality. Single-minded,
he hunts his "motif", roaming the countryside to produce
sketches, watercolours and drawings. "Le Pic Saint-Loup" which
overlooks Montpellier is his "Sainte-Victoire" (Text
by Jean-René Soubiran).
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