Makiko Furuichi | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 1987 |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Known for | Painting, Visual artist |
| Awards | Grand prize, Four National Japanese Art Schools exhibition (Kanazawa) |
Makiko Furuichi (born in 1987 in Kanazawa at Japan) is a visual artist and French Painter.
Makiko Furuichi | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Born | 1987 |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Known for | Painting, Visual artist |
| Awards | Grand prize, Four National Japanese Art Schools exhibition (Kanazawa) |
Makiko Furuichi (born in 1987 in Kanazawa at Japan) is a visual artist and French Painter.
Makiko Furuichi was born in Japan in the city of Kanazawa. She studied at the Kanazawa College of Art before moving to Nantes, France, to continue her studies at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts. She obtained her Higher national diploma in plastic expression in 2011.
In 2018, she exhibited at the FRAC des Pays de la Loire. [1] [2]
In 2021, she was selected by the jury of the Maison Ackerman [3] for the seventh season of the artist residency to create a unique contemporary artwork in the Ackerman cellars. [4] [5]
In 2022, she renovated the bell of the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud, adorned with a dragon that she named Pétronille. [6] [7]
In 2023, she exhibited her collection Ciel poilu, pluie chaude at the Musée Marc Chagall as part of the anniversary exhibition Chagall et moi! marking the museum's 50th anniversary. [8] [9] [10] She also created an original work for the project Les Arts au fil de l'eau for the Val d'Ille-Aubigné Community of Communes in partnership with 40mcube. [11] In the same year, she was the main subject in the documentary Makiko directed by Antoine Godet. [12] On 28 August 2023, she painted a giant mural on Avenue Léon-Blum in Saint-Nazaire. [13]
Makiko is the granddaughter of the painter Minokichi Yasui, the first disciple of Ryusei Kishida. [15]
Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 320,732 in the proper Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2020). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
Maine-et-Loire is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-et-Loire to the east, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres to the south, Vendée to the south-west, and Ille-et-Vilaine to the north-west. It also borders Ille-et-Vilaine in the north for just 20 yards (19 m), France's shortest department boundary. Its prefecture is Angers; its subprefectures are Cholet, Saumur and Segré-en-Anjou Bleu. Maine-et-Loire had a population of 818,273 in 2019.
The Château de Montsoreau is a Flamboyant Gothic castle in the Loire Valley, directly built in the Loire riverbed. It is located in the market town of Montsoreau, in the Maine-et-Loire département of France, close to Saumur, Chinon, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, and Candes-Saint-Martin. The Château de Montsoreau is situated at the confluence of two rivers, the Loire and the Vienne, and the meeting point of three historical regions: Anjou, Poitou, and Touraine. It is the only château of the Loire Valley built directly in the Loire riverbed.
Loire-Atlantique is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population of 1,429,272 in 2019.
Pays de la Loire is one of the eighteen regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital and most populated city, Nantes, one of a handful of French "balancing metropolises". In 2020, Pays de la Loire had a population of 3,832,120.
Saint-Nazaire is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany.
The Chemins de fer de l'État, often referred to in France as the Réseau de l'État, was an early state-owned French railway company.
Fabrice Hybert, also known by the pseudonym Fabrice Hyber, is a French plastic artist born on 12 July 1961 in Luçon (Vendée). At 56, he was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts on April 25, 2018.
Montsoreau is a commune of the Loire Valley in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France on the Loire, 160 km (99 mi) from the Atlantic coast and 250 km (160 mi) from Paris. The village is listed among The Most Beautiful Villages of France and is part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.
La Folle Journée is a French annual classical music festival held in Nantes. It is the largest classical music festival in France. The festival's name refers to the Pierre Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, whose alternative title is La Folle Journée.
Nantes station is the principal passenger railway station serving the French city of Nantes. It is a through station aligned east–west, with entrances and station facilities on both north and south sides. The two entrances are often described as Gare Nord and Gare Sud, as if they were separate stations, but they are in fact linked to each other and to all the platforms by a pedestrian subway. In 2020, after 3 years of work, a new pedestrian aerial way has been built over the railways to facilitate the passengers flow.
Tours station is a railway station serving the city of Tours, Indre-et-Loire department, western France. It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway, the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway, and the non-electrified Tours–Le Mans railway. The Gare de Tours is a terminus; most TGV trains only serve the nearby Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps.
Saumur station, also known as Saumur-Rive-Droite is a railway station serving the town Saumur, Maine-et-Loire department, western France. It is situated on the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway.
Angers-Saint-Laud is a railway station located in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, western France. The station was opened in 1849 and is located on the Le Mans–Angers railway and the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway. The train services are operated by SNCF.
The Abbey of Saint-Florent, Saumur, also Saint-Florent-lès-Saumur or Saint-Florent-le-Jeune, was a Benedictine abbey in Anjou founded in the 11th century near Saumur, France. It was the successor of the Abbey of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil which was abandoned by its monks during raids of the Vikings.
The Saint-Nazaire Pocket was an Atlantic pocket that existed from August 1944 until 11 May 1945 and was formed by the withdrawal of German troops from Loire-Inférieure during the liberation of the department by the allied forces. It was centred around the port and the submarine base of Saint-Nazaire and extended to the east as far as Saint-Omer-de-Blain and from La Roche-Bernard in the north to Pornic in the south.
The FRAC des Pays de la Loire is a public collection of contemporary art of the Pays de la Loire region in France, part of the national FRAC network. It is in Carquefou. A second venue is expected to open in Nantes in April 2021.
Karine Daniel, born 22 June 1974 in Nantes, is a French politician and economist. She was the deputy for Loire-Atlantique's 3rd constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2016 to 2017.
The Z 27500 is a type of dual-voltage electric multiple unit trainset for the French National Railway Company (SNCF) intended to the TER network.
Dylan Besseau is a French filmmaker and producer born in Vietnam. He won an honorable mention at SWIFF 2023 and selected for the Justice Documentary Festival Paris 2023.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
