NÎMES Christiane Vielle, blackened prints and landscapes at Carré d’Art

The artist Christiane Vielle presents her work in partnership with the SUDestampe association, until Saturday April 1 at the Carré d’Art library (Galerie de l’Atrium) from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The objective of the association is to promote printmaking in Nîmes and in the southern region through various events and in particular the organization of a biennial. The ambition is thus to show engraving in a different way, in its richness and variety, more in keeping with the current era, relying on local artists, also opening up to others.

For this new edition, and like a stroll through the world of prints, the association reiterates its desire to attract not only the general public, but also connoisseurs and art lovers by presenting recognized artists and new talents. The 2023 biennial offers a rich itinerary of eleven exhibition venues, including four in Nîmes, and thirty-nine artists.

For now, Christian Vielle is exhibiting at Carré d’Art. Artist, engraver, founder of the Mirage editions, she conceived this exhibition as a journey retracing 30 years of research, from her first aquatint engravings, to her more recent period, bringing together in the same work engravings and monotypes around the theme gesture, trace and color. The exhibition presents around fifty works and a substantial collection of his artist’s books.

Heir to lyrical abstraction and fascinated by the conception of space and time in the art of the Far East, Christiane Vielle, a significant part of whose work applies to paper (collage, masking, print, book), has an original approach, both abstract in its elliptical language and landscape in its deep conception of space.

Christiane Vielle studied at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, medalist of the city of Paris in 1978, she received the GLM Prize for her book Pierres in 1984. In 1985, she was awarded the Casa de Vélazquez in Madrid , where she will stay for two years. Twenty personal exhibitions have been devoted to him, while his work is present in many museums, libraries, art libraries, public and private collections.

Anthony Maurin