|
|
|
|
|
|
Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITION:
1982 CHAILLOT GALLERIA CENTER
- PARIS
1985 GOETHE INSTITUTE
CULTUREL CENTER - San
Francisco
1988 FINE ART STUDIO GALLERY
- San Francisco- USA
1989 FOBBO GALLERY » - San
Francisco- USA
1993 GALERIE KHOKHO RENE
CORAIL - Fort de France -
MARTINIQUE
1996 GALERIE KHOKHO RENE
CORAIL - Fort de France-
MARTINIQUE
1999 GALERIE KHOKHO RENE ...
Further Information
|
|
Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Collections:
Coming Soon!
|
|
Commissions:
Coming Soon!
|
|
|
Artist Statement for Chantal Charron
|
|
|
Because my father is from Martinique and my mother from Burkina Fasso, I spent most of my childhood in a variety of foreign countries.
From 1979 to 1983, I studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.
I have been established in Martinique since 1992, and I am involved in many shows, either individually or with other artists.
You can find my work in private collections in France, the United States, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Martinique.
My work delves into the problematic of the written and the process of writing in relationship to painting. My alphabet is made of a repetition of signs and figures that evoke ancient african scriptures.
My style is the result of continuous work, in constant transformation, evolving around the figurative representation of the human being.
My main focus for the last three years has been an exploration of a particular style of writing, a sort of calligraphy that I am inventing and that is made of silhouettes or stylized figures.
Two concepts are interesting to me: the idea of inventing an alphabet made of signs (figures/signs) and the idea of producing a musical rhythm. The signs produce a rhythm by their repetition and by their contrast with areas of silence.
My goal is to combine a movement of the brush that emerges from both spontaneity and mastery of the painting of these figures/signs, with the rigorous execution of the geometrical composition of the whole painting.
This entirely new way of writing, completely invented and imaginary, is channeled through the meditative inspiration created by the very repetitive painting of these figures/signs. Each painting becomes a story or a chapter of a story. The story of humanity and ancient civilizations, lost in time, where the human being is evolving in the universe; the external universe but also his own internal universe. It is, in a way, the painting of existentialism, or the representation of what each individual brings to the flow of the creation of the world and his or her tight connection with other individuals. The exchanges and activities between the signs/figures are a support to represent both the multitude and the individual and their many connections.
|
|
send an email
