Michel Gautier
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Michel Gautier is a cosmic figurative sculptor, poet and philosopher. Of French origin, he is now Canadian. He thinks that the human being is a part of a whole, no more, no less important than a river, a forest or a mountain range.
He speaks about illusion of separation between us and the rest of creation. He denounces the unconsciousness of homo centrism with its blind materialism, erected as a norm.
We depend on the quality of our environment and its state reflects our state.
His work has as its theme the forest and the spirits that inhabit it, it is a point of view and an ecological metaphor of the most relevant.
His installations serve as a theatre for his performances. It is a search for meaning for a "total art", multi-media and multi-sensory, which is a true interactive experience for the public.
"Our thoughts have always materialized. We thought and created our world. So today we have to think differently"
In Quebec, he renewed his artistic practice with the printed arts.
He was determined to exploit this medium with the sculptor's approach and had the vision of a totem forest. This will be his poetic ecological response to deforestation. His totem forest he made with a paper for the manufacture of which no trees were cut, i.e. recycled paper. From 2009 to 2014 he explored papermaking with Papeterie St. Armand in Montreal. That's where he chose to work with cotton pulp from recycling. His forest has grown. With about thirty totems, it has become an installation, then the theatre of her performances. That speak of the instinct of domination and the illusion of separation that generates a chronic dissociation of the human and its environment.
This search for meaning is inseparable from his work, it inspires and nourishes him.
Globe trotter, graphic designer/illustrator in Paris in the early 80s, he created the communication agency OUTREMER in Martinique in 1986. In 1991 he moved to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. After exhibiting frequently in Quebec, he settled there in 2004. Today he is a Canadian citizen.
From Benin, where he was born, to Quebec, animist cultures have inspired him by their intimate relationship with the world around them.
“I am a migrant artist with a soul of many origins. I explore the places where roots meet, and where all space – or belonging – becomes one. I am looking for the Identity that brings us together " he says.
The many territories where he has lived have naturally led him to question his identity. He connected African and Amerindian cultures and he chose to be from the Earth, the unique place where he lives.
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Michel Gautier has participative in more than 150 exposures (staff or group), significantly in Canada, Usa, Cuba, Japon, Francia, Svizzera, Italia, Austria, Uruguay e Slovenia.
His next exhibition will take place at the Land art Créations sur le champ - Land art Mont-Saint-Hilaire - 12ème. édition - du 10 au 14 oct. 2018 . Sito: http://www.landart-creat
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Elena Iacopino
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My name is Elena Iacopino. I was born in Reggio Calabria
I attended the University of Messina in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies.
I have discovered my passion for « papier-mâché » since some years, even though Art has always attracted me and I can say that it is in my veins.
I painted, participating with these painting in the first edition of "Xenia book fair" international exhibition of the outdoor book in Gallico di Reggio Calabria. I have participating too to other exhibitions.
One day I discovered the « papier-mâché » and became passionate.
This medium has ancient and noble origins. It is already present in the 4th century B. C. in the art of Magna Greeks who used linen fibers, mixed with stucco and colors to create comedy masks of the phliacic farce or cultic hanged from the branches of the sacred woods.
Asya Kozina
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Asya Kozina lives and works in St. Petersburg, is a visual artist who creates sculptures from paper sheets. His themes are mythological, historical, folklorical, traditional: the horse, the wigs, the dresses, the Mongolian and Shamanic culture ...She unbridled creativity amazes and marvel us.
Isabeau d Abzac
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Isabeau d’Abzac, the news paper writer Chantal Lyard, told to Isabeau: "My paper ladies do not dance, they walk. If they grew in beauty, it is because they believe that their duty is to always excel. A weightless dream, a almost flew body, where all ugliness disappears ... These women are great to protect the world and remove the pain of the days. "
Nahoko Kojima
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Nahoko Kojima, practice an ancient Japanese art of cutting paper "Kirigami".His artworks are impressive. Some are even in 3D (by volume), it adds to our amazement. The fineness of the grounds demonstrating the dexterity and sensitivity of the artist. He emerges from his works seemingly contradictory qualities: strength, fragility and poetry. Unlike some other forms of cut-outs such traditional art Switzerland, there is no reason to repeat in his works.
Artists and artWorks present on this site
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Many artists use paper or cardboard to express the full range of their art or highlight particular aspects of their art.
Some artists only use paper for part of their work. In this site we will show all their explorations, researches, evolutions, which represent the richness of their know-how and their expression.
In these "artist portraits", a few files include only a brief panegyric description of the artist and one or two photos of their work found on the web.
We would be pleased if these artists could be present in a more significant way by a more complete presentation and by a real gallery containing significant works representing all their works, including those that do not include paper or cardboard, to show the scope of their art and creativity.
We invite them to contact us by email or the CONTACT form.
Laurent Jourquin
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The Artist}Laurent Jourquin
Artist graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in BrusselsHe used paper and cardboard for a long period of his artistic life.
In this period his monumental sculptures are mostly iconoclastic and give a sense of the futility of things.
He cultivates a certain decline bordering on cynicism about things and events. Spiderman, Michael Jackson, the banker, political figures, everything goes.
ODON
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Guy Houdouin aka ODON is an artist with two lives.He lived at Le Mans, Brussels, and Paris. He traveled around the world to immerse themselves in different cultures. He met and often collaborated with the biggest contemporary pictorial creation names, among others: Alechinski Pierre, Jean Messagier, Arman, Jean Bazaine, Alfred Manessier, François Morellet, Pierre Soulages, Zao Wou Ki ...
It was named Chevalier in 2007, in the Order of French Arts and Letters.
In a former life he was a professor of plastic arts and painter.
In his artworks the characters were already connected by thread or bands of colors.
He painted complex figures on canvas and paper mounted, expressionistic, trapped in the tracery, ropes, rings, ribbons, little by little, on the canvas, began to cross.
At these tortured artworks have succeeded in the second half of the 1970s, the first braids.
Following an accident in his life he became in 1997 to are ODON: anagram of "nodo" knot tracery in Italian. I was looking for to simplify Houdoin. In 1997, a Norman friend tells me of the Odon river running through Caen and I feel very Norman! It also happens that I also greatly admire Odon of Cluny, the second Abbot of Cluny. Moreover, Odon is already in Houdouin and this new name is formed with round letters. Now I only creates circles ... "
His art is moving at the same time to weave the paper: paper for its availability, and for its plastics and tactile qualities.
Kraft paper is painted and folded, twisted, flattened, pasted, and at the end braided.
Weaving represents well the complexity of our world and life.
The flexibility and plasticity of the paper related to the infinite possibilities of the types of weaves.
ODON offer a way to produce artworks of the most surprising and diverse mode.
He chose this way as the first braiding art by essence.
Bernard lagneau
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Bernard Lagneau was born March 27, 1937 in Courbevoie (92).He lived and worked in Paris until 1992.
Since he lives in the department of Drôme on the South Est of France.
Student at the Estienne School in 1950-1955, until 1969 he work than model maker of books and journals.
From 1970 he began work mechanization of various "places" (a hundred to date) in France and abroad (Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic). He also built several fugitive architectures.
Olivier Catte
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Born in 1957 in Petit Quevilly, Olivier Catté lives and works in Rouen.He went for the first time in New York in 1985 where he was immediately fascinated by the energy of the city. It was not until 1999 that the artist will decide to use New York as a frame of his work. We often find the same places, but always different depending on the light or inspiration.
Architecture, energy, noise, speed, urban rhythms, smells, articulate all the tensions that trouble the city of New York.
Nick Georgious (2)
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Mon art est inspiré par la disparition de l'imprimé. Livres et journaux deviennent des artefacts du 20eme siècle. Notre société, est en train de passer de la consommation d'impression vers le tout numérique.
Mes sculptures sont des produits de leur environnement - littéralement et métaphoriquement.
Aussi souvent que je peux, je me sers des journaux locaux pour ajouter de l'authenticité. Les formes de la sculpture découlent et reflètent ma connexion personnelle, à cette ville en particulier.
Nick Georgious
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Guest Artist}My art is inspired by the death of the printed word. Books and newspapers are becoming artifacts of the 20st century. As a society we’re shifting away from print consumption and heading straight towards full digital lives. My sculptures are products of their environment — both literally and figuratively. As often as I can, I use local newspapers to add authenticity, and the form the sculpture takes is a reflection of the personal connection I feel to that particular city.
Tine Krumhorn
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"It all started with the paper or some papers.Newspaper, tissue, coloured paper, ..., be it graphic, neutral, or silk printed ... The paper inspires me by its sensuality.
The drawing is not enough. I do my jigs, reproduced to scale, cut, glued, assembled. The drawing becomes volume and takes shape.
The originality of my work lies precisely in the marriage of materials used.
Gerald Pestmal
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The Artiste}An artist at the legendary modesty, creativity, and inventiveness without limits..
Nature is for him the greatest source of inspiration nourishing his imagination without limits. Arguably it reigns supreme in his work by guiding him in his dreams.
Transcending, sublimate recovered materials is natural for him. The revisited life continues in another form, a reincarnation. Giving their true values and beauty to these renewable, recyclable materials seems to be his artistic mission.
Valmigot
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Painter in the wake of the new narrative figuration, skillfully wielding oil, acrylic, inks and resins, VALMIGOT made fun and impactful contemporary tales with a desire for transmission and sharing of our common history.Wrought recycled paper in volume as the common denominator, canvas, metal, wood, jeans, skirts as a singular pictorial expression, are the plastic alchemy of the artist.
VALMIGOT makes uncompromising artwork of great originality in which the materials are subtly diverted, thus sealing the culmination of a passion with an engaged look that overcomes any framework.
Guezennec Alain
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Guezennec Alain
was born in 1948 near Paris. He has spent his entire career in the corrugated cardboard industry in a sector leader. So very naturally when he had the opportunity to devote more time to his passion for artistic creation naturally he use paper and cardboard as part of his favourite materials.
Is their "experience" that calls him, the wounds of time, traces of usage, recycling waste. From an inert and poor material, his imagination leads to forms that may as well stay in the abstraction that come to life in evocations of animals or characters. It is the material to guide him, colour punctuates forms or support but not always, the evocative power of the raw material in the glow of the chaos that can often stand on its own.
Françoise Amadieu
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Françoise Amadieu is a painter who works with paper and corrugated board first. His artworks are exhibited in France and abroad and in many private collections and even a museum in Japan. She live on the Southwest of France (Gers) since five years
In creation, when we talked of material, color, composition, subject, everything has been said since there is not to say more, but to feel.
Still the support this great forgotten. Why canvas, paper, wood, glass, metal ...?
Claudine Ruelle
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the Artist}Claudine Ruelle
Painter and visual artist, working in his studio in the north of France. Long time she taught.She is an artist with a tormented temperament and playful although his works to the subtle alchemy rather inspire calm and serenity.
His work invites us to travel inside and outside.
In a first period she painted in the euphoria of an artist group called "Perspective" and his works become more introspective and is returned to a more solitary studio work.
Raffaella Zavalloni
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Raffaella Zavalloni was born in 1956 in Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy. She lives and works nearby in Cesena ITALY. Happily self-taught, she has been drawing and painting since childhood. After studying philosophy with a focus on aesthetics at the University of Bologna, she has designed and made theatre costumes, published naturalist guides of plants and animals, and painted tapestries. For about fifteen years corrugated cardboard and paper have been the focus of her artistic research.
Vibeke Hoffmann
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Vibeke Hoffmann produces art works and compositions based corrugated, Acrylic and cardboard, relief, figure sculpture and paintingCountry: Danish
My work with the corrugated cardboard is to me what a sandbox is to a child. A world of options, shapes, and play.
Through my job as a designer and product developer in Smurfit Kappa Denmark (corrugated cardboard industry) the cardboard has stuck under my skin.
I love the material and all of its possibilities.
Patty and Allen Eckman - Eckman Fine Art
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Patty et Allen Eckman
Two artists with a shared passion: Paying homage to nature, native culture and the beauty of imitating life.
From paper come form, elegance and grace.
Debons & Parsy
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These two visual artists seek to arouse the curiosity and surprise through the objects they creates. They can make the same model in different materials. Each model is then a proper expression, a different rendering. Experimentation is at the heart of their creative process. Questioning the matter, divert materials from their original use as part of their artistic research to create more focus and shift attention.Corrugated cardboard is their preferred material. They obtain from this material of everyday objects completely revisited with contemporary aesthetics. They realize through this material coveted objects for interior floor to ceiling, so that the daily life become more unique and beautiful.
Their artistic universe is inspired by graffiti, graphics transposing volume. The design is a way for them to create meetings between materials, locations, volumes, movement, people. Each object produced is the result of those exchanges.
The juxtaposition of their work creates new objects and increases the visual and artistic experiences.
Diana Beltran Herrera
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Diana Beltran Herrera is a Colombian artist who hands perfectly different techniques and disciplines: she paint, makes sculptures and collages. She is fascinated by nature, full of color and vitality. And that’s what she shows in her work. Among her latest Pieces we found this series of birds, sculptures made in paper that represent an important advance in her work.
Mark Langan
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Mark Langan in a self-taught artist who resides in Brunswick Hills, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland.
He left a 20+ year career in the transportation industry and, since 2004, has been expressing his creative aspirations thru the creation of unique interpretive sculptures from an unlikely source as an art medium...recycled corrugated boxes.
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