CURRICULUM VITAE

French artist

 

From 1972 to 1978
Studies at the School of Fine Arts,  Mulhouse (France)

Worked the engraving with Mr. Robert Simon, professor at the Fine Arts of Mulhouse (France)

1978
National Diploma of Fine Arts (France)
From 1978 to 1980
Internships at the “Scuola Internazionale di Grafica” in Venice (Italia) with Mr Ricardo Liccata and Mr Robert Simon
From 1980 to 1982
Works in correspondence with this Academies of Art: Karlsruhe and Berlin (Germany)
2002
Engraving Symposium, Atelier de l’Alma (France) followed with an exhibition: “L’Atelier de l’Alma in all its forms” (France)
From 2007 to 2013
Works at the School of Fine Arts of Grenoble-Valence (France)
To 2012
Was Regional corresponding of Manifestampe, national federation for prints, Paris (France)
Since 2014
Works the engraving at the Art Workshop of Saint-Prex (Swiss)
2017
Artist residency at the Workshop of Presse-Papier (Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada)
EXHIBITIONS IN FRANCE

 Collective exhibitions since 1977:

  • Colmar (1977)
  • Mulhouse (1979, 1981, 1986, 2009)
  • Paris (1979, 1988 and 1990)
  • Strasbourg (1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987)
  • Sarreguemines (1981)
  • Epinal (1981)
  • Guebwiller (1983)
  • Ferrette (1983)
  • Chambéry (1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
  • Francheville, Cité des Artistes (2002)
  • Trévignin (2003)
  • Gières (2003)
  • Aix-les-Bains (2003, 2004)
  • La Ricamarie (2007)
  • Monistrol-sur-Loire (2007)
  • Grenoble (2008, 2010, 2012)
  • Fort Barraux (2013, 2014)
  • Clermont-Ferrand (2017)

Salons:

  • Comparaison – Paris 1998 Espace Branly
  • Tryptique de l’Estampe Contemporaine, Rueil-Malmaison (2009)

 Personal exhibitions or duo:

  • Epinal (1982)
  • Mulhouse (1985, 2013)
  • Strasbourg (1986)
  • Chambéry (1997 and 2002)
  • Trévignin (2003)
  • Saint Etienne (2006)
  • Saint-Pierre d’Albiny (2009)
  • Aix-les-Bains, Musée Faure (2011)
  • Chartreuse d’Aillon (2012)
  • La Roche-sur-Foron, Castle (2013)
  • Evires, Atelier Maure (2013)
  • Trévignin, Chappaz Gallery (2014)
  • Villard-Bonnot, Aragon Space (2015)

International Biennials:

  • Mulhouse (1982)
  • Perpignan (1988)
  • Digne (1988)
  • Sarcelles (2007)

International Triennials:

  • Chamalières (2010)

ABROARD EXHIBITIONS

 Collective exhibitions since 1978:

  • Venice, Italy (1978, 1979)
  • Rome, Italy (1983)
  • Wégimont, Liège, Belgium (1990, 2017)
  • Pise, Italy (2001, 2002)
  • Sofia, Bulgaria (2007, 2008, 2010, 2016)
  • Geneva, Swiss (2010)
  • Hannut, Belgium (2013)
  • Artista in-Formato, Centro Internationaliste della Grafica Venezia, Italy (2014)
  • Cadaques, Spain (2016)
  • Bonn-Königswinter, Germany (2016, 2017)
  • Cologne, Germany (2017)
  • Nassau, Germany (2017)
  • Diez, Germany (2017)

International Biennials of digital print:

  • Gdynia, Poland (2008, 2010, 2012, 2016)

Art Shows:

  • Histoires de Livres, Bruxelles, Belgium (2017)

 International Biennials of engraving:

  • Ibizagrafic, Spain (1982,1984)
  • Fredrikstad, Norway (1984)
  • Intergrafik, Berlin, Germany (1984)
  • Paperart, Salvador of Bahia, Brazil (1986)
  • Liège, Belgium (1987)
  • Nismes-Viroinval, Belgium (1998, 2000, 2004)
  • Douro, Portugal (2005)
  • Acqui Terme, Italy (2007)
  • Bookmarks, Belgium (2007)
  • International Print Exhibition, Tokyo, Japon (2007)
  • Tetovo, Republic of Macedonia (2007, 2008)
  • The American Biennial Exhibition, Iowa, USA (2008)
  • Rosario, Argentina (2008)
  • Czestochowa, Poland (2008)
  • Fushun City, province of Liaoning, China (2009)
  • Facteur 10 @ Histoire de Livres, Brussels, Belgium (2010, 2011) 

COLLECTIONS, COMMUNICATION AND PRICE

Some works in:

  • Print Room of Colmar (France)
  • Print Room of Mulhouse (France)
  • Print Room of the French National Library of Paris (France)
  • Sarreguemines Museum (France )
  • Atelier de l’Alma, Villefranche-sur-Saône (France)
  • Faure Museum, Aix-les-Bains (France)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador de Bahia (Brazil)
  • Print Room of the Museum of Douro (Portugal)
  • Area of Wégimont, Museum of Small Format Nismes-Viroindal (Belgium)
  • Acqui Terme Museum (Italy)
  • Sakimi Art Museum, Okinawa (Japan)
  • Iowa University (USA)
  • Collections in France and abroad.

Some works given to:

  • Area of Wégimont, Museum of Small Format Nismes-Viroindal (Belgium)
  • Gallery Art Pluriel, Lyon (France)
  • French National Library of Paris (France)
  • Public Library, New York (USA)
  • French Institute France Alliance, New York (USA)
  • Alliance Française de San Fransisco (USA)
  • San Francisco Art Institute (USA)

Price:

  • In 1981, « Grand Prix de la Ville de Mulhouse » for engraving.

Communication:

  • Various press articles in France and abroad
  • Various exhibition catalogs

Presented in:

  • Various books on artists of Alsace
  • “La collection de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France” 1978 – 1988
  • “Intérieur-Extérieur” of the Atelier de l’Alma, France (2002)
  • “Transforme(s” edition of the gallery ” Frères de la côte”, France (2007)
  • ” Portfolio”, edition of Georg Burner Geneva, Switzerland (2011, 2012, 2013)
  • Artista in-Formato, Centro Internationaliste della Grafica Venezia, Italy (2014)

Some radio:

  • Radio Suisse Romande (1981 and 1985)
  • FR3 Strasbourg in 1986
  • Culture-Savoie in 1997
  • Radio Alto, 2012

Interview: