Galerie Blandine Roques presents Françoise COURGEON and Natali BENOIT

Françoise COURGEON
Painter born in 1963 in the Nantes region. In 1986 after obtaining a National Superior Diploma in Art at the Beaux Arts in Angers, she became a graphic designer and artistic director in the field of communication and publishing. A profession that she practiced until the 2000s between the Pays de la Loire and Alsace where she has now lived for many years. In 2001, she became an artistic and cultural worker and at the same time started a personal painting project. From 2003 she began to exhibit her paintings in various galleries, museums and art fairs. His work evolves over series. In 2015, she began the "Armchairs" series with a pictographic and narrative painting. Since then, she has explored this painting where the dreamlike decorations are like a natural garden in which reverie and escape are superimposed. In his paintings, the representation is figurative, the effects of perspective are erroneous, the colors are often bright and the attention to detail is present in the front as well as in the background. For this we can classify this new series in the movement of "naive" painting. And yet other aspects challenge because the artist has a certain academic mastery of painting and she creates imagery like staged plans that give the illusion of a staging made of collages, which gives her painting a singular air.

Natali BENOIT
Student at the Beaux Arts in Bourges where she will make fundamental encounters. In 89, she left to discover the masters of ceramics in Korea. His career continues to grow with human intersections and curiosities of the artistic world. His means of expression will mainly be oriented towards ceramics. She speaks of a long experimental path to today create forms centered on expressiveness and abstraction through sandstone, rough earth - "I build my structures by strata, I tangle pieces of earth from a anarchic way, chaos interests me. The colored enamelling applied in irrational thickness gives life". Natali found a strong link between earth and glass (enamel) to build a work that became pictorial. Since 2021, she has been co-curator of exhibitions at the RABOIS - Center d'Art Contemporain in Argenton-Sur-Creuse and continues to communicate her artistic knowledge by leading transmission workshops.

Opening Thursday March 16 from 6 p.m.

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