Fantine Andrès, prize-winner in 2012 of the Rotary Arts prize, draws with graphite pencil scenes composed of items of lost property, materials, hair, birds etc … as if they had been saved from a strange cataclysm …
She begins her work of drawing with a phase of documentation. She photographs objects chosen for their various aspects, textures, colors, lights, with the aim of establishing a picture library. These are stored, sorted out, used or put aside ... to be finally assembled.
Corals, raw meat, cigarette ends are elements identified, anchored in the reality, the connotations of which attract or disgust. Her challenge is to moove away from these expected impressions. The less noble and noble objects live then randomly, close from the hybridization, and the perspectives become impossible.
The depiction aims at first sight at a certain realism, but objects are used, transformed: the branches of trees become geometrical, the meat becomes sticks. Very rich and textured, they become confused and testify of a real bias. They are not simply reproduced but suited. This kind of still life is suspended between two states, flirting with the limits of the terrible and the attractive, arousing the interrogation.
Fascinated by the sensual depiction, but also disturbing because of the use of the graphite pencils, her drawings create an intriguing balance. This is strengthened by the white background of the paper, drawings look like if they were cut or stuck. Tones are strong and homogeneous in opposition of a too much waited contrast.
Fantine Andrès was born in 1983, she lives and works in Strasbourg (France)
She is graduates in 2009 with a Master of Arts (DNSEP & DNAP), from l'École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Saint-Étienne (ESADSE)
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2016 Bedsitter Art Fair Vienne (Autria)
- 2015 Perimetro, duo show with Thomas Bischoff – Transverso arte contemporáneo Oaxaca – (Mexico) http://transversoartemexicoguate.blogspot.fr
- 2015 Dreams, duo show with Elisabeth Fréring – galerie Bertrand Gillig (France)
- 2015 Passage Vauban + restitution bastion 14, FRAC Sélestat, Group show – barrage Vauban, Strasbourg curated by the "commissaires anonymes" – www.lescommissairesanonymes.fr (France)
- 2015 Les moustaches Radar – Résonances daliniennes dans l’art contemporain, group show – Le radar – www.le-radar.fr (France)
- 2015 Pas si Love ! Edition 2, galerie Bertrand Gillig - Strasbourg
- 2014 Regionale 15, Group show - Strasbourg Art library www.mediatheques-cus.fr
- 2014 Pas si Love ! galerie Bertrand Gillig - Strasbourg (France)
- 2014 PARC 5 - Group show - Ostwald (France)
- 2013 Biennale d’Issy, Musée de la carte à jouer - Issy-les-Moulineaux
- 2013 Expo au parc, Outdoor exhibitionof sculptures and installations, Ostwald (France)
- 2013 Contes d’hiver, galerie Bertrand Gillig - Strasbourg
- 2013 La Fête en duo with Aline Robin - galerie enjoyted - Lyon (France)
- 2012 Immaculée conception, La semencerie, Group show - Strasbourg - www.lasemencerie.org
- 2012 Prize-winners exhibition - Rotary club - Saint-Louis (France)
- 2012 Bienvenue - galerie OP-Nord - Stuttgart www.op-nord.de (Germany)
- 2012 Awarded first prize, Rotary club - Prize-winners exhibition at the galerie Bertrand Gillig - Strasbourg (France)
- 2012 De chairs et de voiles - jardins de la Ferme Bleue - duo show with Alexia Bretaudeau - Uttenhoffen - www.jardinsdelafermebleue.com
- 2012 Solo show - galerie R9 - Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. www.galerier9.com (France)
- 2011 40 artistes 40 œuvres, galerie Henri Chartier - Lyon - www.henrichartier.com
- 2011 Art dating, Bischheim, group show - www.accelerateurdeparticules.net
- 2011 Biennale d’Issy, Vanités contemporaines, Musée de la carte à jouer - Issy-les-Moulinaux - www.biennaledissy.com (France)
- 2010 Là où il pleuvine, group show - l’Atelier - www.laouils.com (France)
- 2008 Biennale Internationale du Design "OFF", group show - Société des Arts du Forez - Saint-Etienne - citedudesign.com