Bénédicte Gerin

Bénédicte Gerin creates stripped-back painting, evolved from the art of beautiful writing. Leaving behind the marked paths of calligraphy, she ignores codes and dimensions in a very personal journey where definitions are never to be taken literally. Word-lines, text-images transcend the frame: pushed to their strongest expression, they become rhythms, signs, traces, impulse… explosion! She draws acrylic and Indian ink, from the material of vibrant papers that form one body with the work, an expression of unprecedented power.

From her small formats, intense concentrated energy, to her large paintings, which she works "standing, leaning like a conductor on a score, with a broad, choreographed gesture ...", all her art passionately expresses movement.

Josette Milgram

Timeline:

1966-81 lives successively in Lebanon, Thailand, Cyprus and England

1982 arrives in France where she draws at the Ateliers de Paris

84-86 graphic arts studies - Met de Penninghen and EMSAT

1991 discovers calligraphy with the Ductus Association and the ADAC workshops. Training with Mediavilla, Cortesi, Larcher, Sabatier, Pflughaupt

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Exhibitions

Past

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Sensations fugaces

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
56 x 76 cm
2014

Vibrations 1

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
25 x 25 cm
2014

Réminiscence

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
25 x 25 cm
2014

Frémissement interne

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
20 x 19 cm
2014

Rythmes verticaux 1

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
20 x 19 cm
2014

Good vibes

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
25 x 25 cm
2014

Rythmes verticaux 2

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
20 x 19 cm
2014

Vibrations 2

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
25 x 25 cm
2014

Stop making sense

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
20 x 20 cm
2012

FIlaments

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
20 x 20 cm
2012

What is it?

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
20 x 20 cm
2012

Talking letters 4

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
18 x 24 cm
2012

Flux

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and indian ink on paper
20 x 20 cm
2012

Untitled

by Bénédicte Gerin

Acrylic and ink on paper
20 x 20 cm
2012