Cathryn Boch

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Cathryn Boch (born 1968, Strasbourg), is a French award-winning artist who lives and works in Marseille. She won Drawing Now Prize in 2014. [1] She obtained many residencies abroad and exhibited at key galleries and museums, including MAMCO Geneva in 2009. [2]

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Life

Cathryn Boch was born in Strasbourg in 1968. She graduated from University of Strasbourg in 1990, receiving General Academic Studies Degree (D.E.U.G.) in History of Art. Later she received National Diploma of Plastic Art Studies (1994) and National Superior Diploma of Plastic Expression (1996) from Graduate School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg. In 2002-2003 Boch also completed Visual Art training (C.F.P.I) at Graduate School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg.

In 2014 she won Drawing Now Prize. [1] Between 1995 and 2001 Boch was one of four artists known as the group “Les Pisseuses” who chalked exquisite corpses on the walls of Strasbourg. [2]

Art

Boch uses road maps, aerial views, topographic surveys and entire iconography of locating, measing and recording the territory as a raw material for her artworks. As a painter she mixes the colors on her palette to get the desired tone, like a sculptor she takes pieces of the material to give the substance a form. [3] She calls the job she is doing “drawing”: she works with the paper, touching it, sanding, scraping and piercing, until the drawing is revealed in layers. [4] Manipulating maps with hand sewing, she creates sculptural topography. [5] The tension of the threads hardens the folds and paper turns into sculpture, reinforced with a frosting of sugar or varnish. [6] Tension of the material is used as a metaphor of world's tension shaken by migratory crisis, rise of extremes, wars and global warming. For Boch, born in Alsace border region of parents from both countries, geographical borders in her works is a paradoxical space, both marginal and central, a space of closure and encounter. [7]

Boch's work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Galerie Christian Berst, Paris and the Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Rue de l'Evêché among others. [8] Her works are in public collections of Frac Picardie and PACA, Municipal Fund of the City of Paris (FMAC) and the Georges Pompidou Center, as well as in several renowned private collections. [7]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions (selected)

Collections

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