CLAIRE TROTIGNON France, b. 1984
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Claire Trotignon was born in Rochefort, France in 1984 and currently lives and works in Paris and Tours. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Tours in 2008 with special acknowledgement.
With engravings, collages, gouache, drawings, and a mastered technique, Claire Trotignon reveals illusionist and timeless spaces, atopic utopias. Socle, architecture, vegetation and sculpture coexist in delicate landscapes. Trotignon plays with the codes of representation and dimensions of objects to produce images with powerful aesthetics. The works are oxymoronic between a post-apocalyptic atmosphere and softness, creating spaces empty of human presence.
In 2021, Claire Trotignon won the Art[ ]Collector prize of Evelyne and Jacques Deret. Each year, a French institution (FRAC IDF, CAC Le Shed, Centre Pompidou Metz) dedicated a personal exhibition to her. Her work is presented in France and abroad, including Louis Vuitton Foundation, Venice Architecture Biennale, FIAC and Untitled Miami. Her works have integrated public collections (Société Générale Collection, BNF, FMAC, New York Public Library) and many private collections.
"I create spaces, non-locations, through the codes of architecture, landscape and cartography in a back-and-forth past/future and a plan/volume ratio." – Tafmag.com
With engravings, collages, gouache, drawings, and a mastered technique, Claire Trotignon reveals illusionist and timeless spaces, atopic utopias. Socle, architecture, vegetation and sculpture coexist in delicate landscapes. Trotignon plays with the codes of representation and dimensions of objects to produce images with powerful aesthetics. The works are oxymoronic between a post-apocalyptic atmosphere and softness, creating spaces empty of human presence.
In 2021, Claire Trotignon won the Art[ ]Collector prize of Evelyne and Jacques Deret. Each year, a French institution (FRAC IDF, CAC Le Shed, Centre Pompidou Metz) dedicated a personal exhibition to her. Her work is presented in France and abroad, including Louis Vuitton Foundation, Venice Architecture Biennale, FIAC and Untitled Miami. Her works have integrated public collections (Société Générale Collection, BNF, FMAC, New York Public Library) and many private collections.
"I create spaces, non-locations, through the codes of architecture, landscape and cartography in a back-and-forth past/future and a plan/volume ratio." – Tafmag.com
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