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Fabienne Verdier
In September 2009, Fabienne Verdier embarked on the execution of four monumental murals for the walls of the Palazzo Torlonia in Rome. The photographer Philippe Chancel installed himself in Verdier's studio over the course of ten months, to record the genesis of these paintings and the work of the artist. This volume records their odyssey together.
Painting Space
The second English-language monograph on French artist Fabienne Verdier (born 1962), Painting Spaceapproaches her epic, calligraphic and heavily gestural abstract paintings as a type of sculpture, comparing her pictorial universe to the serene effects and industrial surfaces of Joseph Beuys and Richard Serra.
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Fabienne Verdier: The Song of Stars
- The first monograph on this contemporary French painter who was one of the first foreign-born women to earn a post-graduate diploma from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China - Accompanies a show at the Musee Unterlinden in Colmar (France) from October 1, 2022 - March 28, 2023 This volume documents the show The Song of the Stars, a solo exhibition of paintings by French artist Fabienne Verdier (b.1962) at the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar. Her work is presented alongside ancient and modern art in the museum's permanent collection, creating a kind of dialog between the two. The central body of work reproduced here, Rainbows, was inspired by the range of color and the aura of light in the Issenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald, one of the highlights of the museum's holdings. In 66 works in the Rainbows series, Verdier reflects on the depiction of death no longer seen as an ending but rather as a trace of energy that is released for the living. The connection between man and cosmos, and the vital energy of the universe, is the theme at the heart of this work. Text in English and French.
Passenger of Silence
Was it reasonable to leave everything behind from one day to the next and go off alone into the depths of Communist China in search of the forgotten secrets of ancient Chinese art? Fabienne Verdier didn't ask herself that question: it was as if in the early 1980s this brilliant young art student suddenly became possessed by the desire to learn the ancient Chinese art of painting and calligraphy that had been devastated by the Cultural Revolution. When she turned up in an art school run by the party, a foreigner lost in the province of Sichuan, she was determined to overcome all the obstacles: the language and the mistrust of the Chinese, but also the unbearable lack of privacy and hygiene, the poverty and filth, the inquisitorial way of running things... Putting the West completely to the back of her mind, she became the pupil of great artists, despised and marginalized as they were, who initiated her into the secrets and practices of an age-old art form. This unique experience gave rise to a true adventure story and a fascinating body of work that combines Oriental inspiration with contemporary art, as illustrated in her book L'unique Trait de Pinceau (Albin Michel).
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The Awakened Eye
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Art Plural
"Art is now a globalized phenomenon, with artists from all corners of the world showing their works on an international stage as never before. How do we begin to understand the ensuing multitude of different directions in contemporary art? In Art Plural: Voices of Contemporary Art world-renowned art historian and writer Michael Peppiatt joins with Swiss gallerist Frederic de Senarclens of Art Plural Gallery, as well as over 25 leading contemporary artists, to share their thoughts on this diverse art scene. While Peppiatt frames their work in a historical context, the artists themselves reflect deeply on their influences, styles, techniques and messages through personal interviews in this lavishly illustrated book."--From back cover.
