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Anne PARIS
Anne Paris likes to mix genres, marrying masculine and feminine, decorative ornaments and demonstrations of strength, ink, painting, embroidery and engraving, miniatures and full-length figures, contemporary African fabrics and warriors of another age.
After studying at France's Institute of Political Science and National School of Administration, then at the City of Paris Beaux Arts Studios, having worked as a prefect and a magistrate, she left her career to concentrate on painting.
It is power and strength in all their forms that drive her artistic quest: virile trunks, African style heads of state, fantasy heroes, people of war, trinkets of power, official productions, videogame characters or great historical figures. But more than its reality, it is the apparatus, the decorum of power that interest her. The appearance of power only…
She casts a feminine and ornate eye on these male dominated worlds and on the different objects of power, to reveal the behind the scenes, to break through the decorous surface. She seeks to depict a world without gravity, in all senses of the word, both cruel and delicate, a world where opposites, eras and scales come together, diversion, duality and ambiguity.
Her approach is thus both conceptual and carnal. She is interested in the depiction – through fantasy – of space and time, and is moving towards a representation free of any classical perspective.
A winner at the Salon de Montrouge, her work was shown at Vitry Municipal Gallery. She also received commissions for individual exhibitions from the Ministry of Culture for the National Archives and from DRAC Limousin for Tulle Town Museum.
The historian Annette Becker has just presented her painting at the 1917 Exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Jean-Yves Jouannais, former editor-in-chief of art press, devised a sort of literary adjunct to his Encyclopédie des guerres at Centre Pompidou, where he also presented her painting, writing the catalogue "Abécédaire de campagne" focusing on the work of Anne Cindric.
The art critic Julie Crenn, doctor of history and art critic and writer for art press, has also written an article on her painting in "A l'intérieur/Anne Cindric".
Anne Paris is represented by Galerie Laure Roynette in Paris.
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. 1965 .
Anne Paris was born near Paris in 1965. Her childhood was coloured by the horrific and marvellous tales told by her great-grandmother from Auvergne.
. 1980 .
Fascinated by painting after her discovery of the primitive painters, she was 15 when her wish to prepare for entry to the Beaux-Arts prompted her to attend art classes at the City of Paris art school. Personal changes led her down a different, more conventional path.
. 1984 .
She entered the Paris Institute of Political Studies, but never abandoned painting.
. 1991 .
She then entered the National School of Administration, graduating two years later. This career brought her a depth of experience as a prefect and magistrate. The themes of power and force began to enter her artistic quest, but she decided that this conventional route was definitely no longer for her.
. 1994 .
With her “mission accomplished”, she could finally return to her passion, and joined Yanne Auguin’s drawing and composition studio.
. 1997 .
She met Boris, her future husband, an architect, who had fought in the war in former Yugoslavia and survived the siege of Sarajevo. Her working themes would also be be profoundly marked by this vital experience.
. 1998 .
She joined the painting section of the City of Paris Beaux-Arts studios, and began to develop her own personal direction and to display her work.
. Individual exhibitions .
2014
« Parte incognita », Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
2012
« Missing in action », Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
2011
Centre d'art Ianchelevici, Maisons-Laffitte
« Ah ! Que la guerre est jolie »(Oh what a lovely war), Espace 2.13 PM - La Celle-Saint-Cloud
2007
« Détournement de fonds publics » (Misuse of public money), Hôtel de Soubise, Archives Nationales, Ministry of culture – Paris
2006
« Manufacture nationale : mais que fabrique l'Etat ? » (National manufacture: but what does the state make?”),
Musée de Tulle, DRAC Limousin – Tulle
2003
« Il vous reste une vie »(You still have a life), Jungle Art Galerie – Paris
. Joint exhibitions .
2015
« Serendipity », Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
Vente caritative au profit de l'association « Autistes sans frontières », Artcurial, Paris
« Tableaux fantômes », Part 2, Castle of Mons-en-Barœul, curators Luc Hossepied, Eric Rigollaud et Nicolas Tourte, with the support of the regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
2014
« Tableaux fantômes », Médiathèque Danielle et François Mitterrand of the city of Bailleul, curators Luc Hossepied, Eric Rigollaud et Nicolas Tourte, with the support of the regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
« L’habit de château », at the Castle of Maisons-Laffitte, curator of the exhibition Aurélie Wacquant-Mazura, with the Center of national Monuments, the City of Maisons-Laffitte and les Abattoirs /FRAC-Midi-Pyrénées, Yvelines
« En réponse à la guerre » (in answer to the war), at the Center of Cultural Cordial Agreement, castle of Hardelot, crators of the exhibition Freddy Pannecocke et Valéry Poulet, with SMAC and the DRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Pas-de-Calais
CRAC, 14th biennale of arts of the city of Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne
“Fusillé pour l’exemple, les fantômes de la république” (Shot at Dawn, the ghosts of the republic)
City of de Paris-Museum of the Army-Les Invalides
2013
SLICK Art Fair, with the Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
« La Réserve », Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
« Around drawings », Espace 2.13 PM, Paris
2011
Chic Art Fair, Espace 2.13 PM, Paris
“Shooting symphony”, with Etienne de Fleurieu, Iris Levasseur, Laurent Pernot and Brigitte Zieger – Galerie Odile Ouizeman – Paris
2007
Participation in the exhibition by the photographer Micheline Pelletier, Château d’If, Ministry of Culture – Marseille
2006
“Secrets d’états, secrets d’Etat” (states' secrets, State secrets), with the visual artists Agathe Larpent and Françoise Schein, Nuit des Musées, Musée de l’Histoire de France, Ministry of Culture – Paris
2005
Monnaie de Paris
Mairie de Paris
2003
Vitry-sur-Seine municipal gallery
European Young Creators Exhibition, San Cugat del Valles Museum – Catalonia, Spain
Former Sainte-Marguerite Prison for les Journées du Patrimoine – Strasbourg
European Young Creators Exhibition, Amedeo da Souza Museum – Amarante, Portugal Salon d’Art Contemporain de Montrouge – winner
2001
Lagalerie, with the visual artist Olivier Blanckart – Paris
Camille Fournet – Place du Trocadéro – Paris
1999
Ateliers Glacière Open Doors – Paris
1998
Hauts de Belleville Cultural Centre – Paris
. Media .
2014
Articles in Télérama, Le Monde.fr, La Voix du Nord, Office et Culture,
Le magazine.info
2012
Articles in the Centre Pompidou’s review Code Couleur, Arts Magazine, Le Monde.fr, Le Journal des Arts.fr, Art Actuel.fr, Inferno.com, Slash.fr, Le magazine.info
2011
Articles in Arts Magazine, Le Journal des Arts, Le Magazine.info, Magazine ExiGent
2008
Participation in the programme Infrarouge – France 2
2006
Articles in: La Croix, L’Echo du Centre, Le Figaro Magazine, La Montagne, l’Officiel des Spectacles, Pariscope and on the paris-art.com website
2005
Story in the national edition of the France 3 news
2004
Participation in the Télésud TV chain’s culture programme with the musician Manu Dibango
Participation in the radio programme “Travaux publics” by Jean Lebrun on France Culture
2003
Press articles: AFP, Dernières nouvelles d’Alsace, L’Alsace, Le Parisien, Pariscope, 20 Minutes
2002
Participation in Jean Lebrun’s radio programme “Pot-au-feu” on France Culture
. Various .
2012
Presentation of Anne Paris’s work by the art critic Jean-Yves Jouannais at Centre Pompidou, in L’Encyclopédie des Guerres.
Presentation of Anne Paris’s work by the art historian Annette Becker at the closing session of the 1917 exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Participation in the colloquium led by Fabrice Bousteau, editor-in-chief of Beaux-Arts Magazine on the topic of artists and Heritage, with the choreographer Odile Duboc, the film director Georges Lavaudant, and the palaeoanthropologist Pascal Picq.
2011
Dialogue with Jean-Yves Jouannais on the topic of “Women and War”, at the Lanchelevici Art Centre, Maisons-Laffitte
2007
Bibliothèque Nationale de France: participation in the colloquium led by Fabrice Bousteau, editor-in-chief of Beaux-Arts Magazine on the topic of artists and heritage, with the choreographer Odile Duboc, the film director Georges Lavaudant, and the palaeoanthropologist Pascal Picq.
2006
Tulle Museum: participation in a colloquium on the relations between Art and State, with the painter Henri Cueco.
2003
Centre National des Arts Plastiques: included in the “25 events in the Calendar of Contemporary Art”
. Publications .
2015
Catalogue Artcurial
2014
RAR, edited by the Museums of the city of Angers, Ariane James-Sarazin
Catalog of the exhibition « L'habit de château », Center of national Monuments
Catalog of the exhibition « En réponse à la guerre » , SMAC et DRAC
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Freddy Pannecocke
Catalog of the biennale CRAC 2014
2012
« Abécédaire de campagne », by Jean-Yves Jouannais, éditions Galerie Laure Roynette
A l'intérieur, Anne Cindric », by Julie Crenn, éditions Derrière la salle de bains
2011
« La Toile de Jouy aujourd'hui et sa postérité artistique », dissertation by Elise Fin, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3
2006
« Détournement de fonds publics », by Marianne Costa and Ariane James-Sarazin, Ministry of Culture
2005
« Manufacture nationale, mais que fabrique l'Etat ? », by Isabelle Rooryck DRAC Limousin, Ministry of Culture
2004
« Les Entrailles de la force », by Béatrice Dante, Philippe Mahaud and Lora P.Trarck, Maelström Editions