Ariane Laroux

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Ariane Laroux in her art studio

Ariane Laroux (born 12 April 1957) is a Franco-Swiss painter, draughtsman and printmaker. She is known for her black and white drawings, using void and empty spaces in her artworks. She has drawn portraits of renowned activists, while interviewing them, paying attention to having exactly the same number of women and men portraits in her books. She has exhibited several examples in the British Museum.

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Biography

Laroux was born in Paris, France, and spent her childhood with her parents in Montmartre in the studio of the Red House of Artists, Rue Ordener, and with her grandparents at Square de la Tour Maubourg near Les Invalides. [1] [ failed verification ]

After studying at the College of Verneuil-sur-Seine, she gained a degree in history at the Sorbonne and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva.[ citation needed ] In 1984 she married the artist-engraver Daniel Divorne (1934-2003),[ citation needed ] director of the Geneva Centre for Contemporary Engraving.[ citation needed ]

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Exhibitions

From 1979 to 2017, Laroux exhibited at, among others, the Alice Pauli Gallery in Lausanne, [2] [3] [4] [5] the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, [6] Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, in Ditesheim, [7] [8] the gallery Eric Franck (Geneva-Berlin-Basel), [9] the Michel Foëx Gallery (Geneva), [10] Museum Country and Val de Charmey, [11] the Museum of the Resistance in Lyon, the Roswitha Hartmann Gallery (Zurich), the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Marseilles, 2006), the Musée de l'Homme (Paris, 2008), [12] the British Museum (London 2016).

References

  1. "AA-artistes ayant vécu ou travaillé à MAA". Montmartre aux artistes. Cité Montmartre aux Artistes. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  2. Jaunin, Françoise (23 December 1983). "Françoise Jaunin, « Un regard de visionnaire baroque". TLM.
  3. Billeter, Erika (1983). "Ausgespartes Weiss". DU- die Kunstzeitschrift 11 (513): 8 pages.
  4. Lecoultre, Cecile (12 December 1983). "The magic of the void". 24 Heures.
  5. Reusser, Francis (1983). "Ariane Laroux: Une expérience différente du visible". Film.
  6. Billete, Erika (11 April 1985). L'Autoportrait à l'âge de la photographie (Catalogue ed.). p. 514.
  7. François Ditesheim and Ariane Laroux (1993). Ariane Laroux (Ditesheim gallery ed.). p. 40 pages.
  8. Harris, Claire-Elise (1994). "Georeges écrit". Le Nouveau Quotidien .
  9. Mathonnet, Philippe (19 July 1988). "Quand le paysage se met à divaguer sur le papier". Journal de Genève (166): 2 pages.
  10. Le Bot, Marc (1994). "Le peintre travaille à l'arme blanche et noir Exp.), Foex Gallery": 12 pages.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. Patrick Rudaz et Ariane Laroux (2001). Frontières, Espace labyrinthique (Catalogue ed.). Musée de Charmey. p. 16 pages.
  12. Germaine Tillion, May 30 - 8 September 2008. Musée de L'Homme, Palais de Chaillot. 2008.
  13. Seligman, Isabel; Riley, Bridget; Chapman, Hugo; British Museum (2016). Lines of thought: drawing from Michelangelo to now. ISBN   9780500292785. OCLC   965642048.