Pauline Bazignan

“Intérieur. Hespérides (2016) is the fruit of a long process of research during which Pauline Bazignan sought to make the invisible, the hidden faces of things, perceptible. After peeling an orange, the artist carefully reconstructed its organic envelope and filled it with liquid clay to reveal its emptiness and asperities. The peel burns, the clay coalesces, and from this revelatory fire a series of ceramics is born. Moulds fashioned from hollowed-out citrus fruits become emergent interiors, playing on the relationship between perceptible and imperceptible, appearance and essence.

Following her ‘fleurs-lignes’ (flowers/lines), these interiors/interiors, male and female alike, gangue boasting precious columellae, point to a new sculptural direction in this very demanding artist’s work. ‘Intérieur’ seems to result from some spontaneous happening during the process of impression.” Laurent Le Bon

Born in 1974. Lives and works in Paris.

Graduated from the National Higher School of Fine Arts (ENSBA), Paris.

 

2015: Planètes, Galerie Pixi Marie Victoire Poliakoff, Paris

2014: La même ligne, recent works, studio, Paris

2010: Mur, works on paper, studio, Paris

2007: L’escalier, Cultures, France, Paris

2006: Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avide, Galerie Apnée, Paris

2005: Right Gallery, ENSBA, Paris

2003: Left Gallery, ENSBA, Paris

2001: Tableaux dans un appartement en travaux, Grégoire and Ingrid Heuzé, Paris

1999: Librairie galerie Racine, Paris

 

2016: True Mirror, espace Commines, Paris ; Dessin, curatorship Anne Malherbe, atelier Richelieu, Paris; Métamorphoses, Grand garage, Paris; Cachet de la Poste faisant foi, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris

2015 : Pop-up, Galerie Pixi Marie Victoire Poliakoff, Paris; Art is Hope, PIASA, Paris; Une galerie, un regard III, Galerie Pixi Marie Victoire Poliakoff, Paris; Kaolin, curatorship Marianne Derrien, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris; Fragilités, Galerie Première Oeuvre, Paris; Cadavre exquis, Montrouge Belfry elevator; Un monde léger et profond, ‘Carte Blanche à Stéphane Corréard’, Art Up! Grand Palais, Lille

2014: Ich geh’in den Tannenwald, denn meine Pillen wirken bald, Projektraum Ventilator 24, Berlin (Germany), Galerie Première Oeuvre, Le Hangar, Montrouge;  Une galerie, un regard Part II, Galerie Pixi Marie Victoire Poliakoff, Paris; 59^th Montrouge Salon, curatorship Stéphane Corréard, Montrouge Belfry

2011: Etats de cœur, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin (Germany)

2007: COUNTDOWN by Alexine Chanel, inaugural project, MARS, Berlin (Germany)

2006: A l’instant précisément, curatorship Dominique Gauthier, Carré des Arts, Salon du Livre, Paris

2005: Peinture&Sculpture, with Dalila Dalléas, Friche&nous la paix, Workshop22, Paris

2004 : Deux demi-murs et demi, Dominique Gauthier’s studio, ENSBA, Paris