{"id":4,"date":"2012-06-09T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artificialis.eu?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:13:03","slug":"new-test-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e9ronique Champollion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in Valence, France (1957) V\u00e9ronique went to the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts D\u00e9coratifs<\/a><\/span> (ENSAD) in Paris and obtained her diploma in 1981. Moreover, she achieved a DEA (MA) in Modern Indian Studies on Hindi films. She has been part of diverse groups of artist self-organisations like ART MOBIL with its journal, No-made, both in the region of Nice and the Museo Teo<\/a><\/span> in Turin. Furthermore, she is member of the Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques<\/a><\/span> (AIAP)-Unesco, based in Monaco. During her long career, she organised exhibitions, installations, videos, and performances throughout the world. Often, she focusses on the concept of \u201cMediterraneanness\u201d, in which colour, musicality, humanity and playfulness play an important role.<\/p>\n

Besides painting, the artist forms reliefs and sculptures from newspapers and posters, combined with glue, fiberglass and resin. With a glance to art history, legend and fairy tales, V\u00e9ronique interprets her sources astute and humorous. Favourite inspirations she takes from classical paintings for example by Botticelli<\/a><\/span> or Velasquez<\/a><\/span>. Her sculpture \u201cBotticelli\u2019s Spring\u201d is our Artwork of the Month \/ May 2015<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

During her long artistic practice, she created several Madonnas in her different techniques. There are archaic ones like a Madonna of Snow, a monumental outdoor sculpture. Others are more classical works like the Madonna with Child, our Artwork of the Month \/ December 2017<\/a><\/span>. In addition, these Madonnas might have contemporary references. Often the Madonnas are inspired by paintings inter alia by Giovanni Bellini<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

A personal exhibition on fairy tales in January 2015 in Valence included an installation of a newspaper forest. Another one in March and April 2015 at the Montpellier University<\/a><\/span> showed many artworks inspired by Occitan literature (Troubadours, Mistral and actual poets). In 2017, V\u00e9ronique participated in a group exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute<\/a><\/span> in Paris, where she proposed a visual dialogue between Paris and Milan, with Neapolitan interferences as installation of citations coming from paintings of the three towns.<\/p>\n

In September 2020, V\u00e9ronique participated in a group exhibition about the history of engravings in the Media Library Albert Camus<\/a><\/span> in Antibes. Hence, the inspiration to engage more intensively with graphic prints. Besides many other works, she made a series of prints, in particular collagraphies. One of these works, \u201cSatyr\u201d is our Artwork of the Month \/ March 2021<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Since 2004 V\u00e9ronique creates dwarves made of papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9. They were presented on several occasions and in various constellations, for example in 2006 in \u201cthe Room\u201d in Turin, Italy under the title \u201cBianca Neve e i 47 Nani\u201d (Snow White and the 47 Dwarves) and in 2010 as \u201cTrain de Nains\u201d at the Museo Teo<\/a><\/span> in Milan. Meanwhile, an entire population of dwarves has emerged. Our Artwork of the Month \/ December 2025<\/a><\/span> is dedicated to them.<\/p>\n

Even though her sculptures are precious pearls by themselves, she sometimes brings them to life, in placing them into images for visual poetry stories, published as books in France, Italy and Belgium. Her latest publication was released in 2023 at Ichnos Editions<\/a><\/span>: \u201cContribution \u00e0 une r\u00e9habilitation du travail m\u00e9nager et en particulier de la place de l\u2019homme dans la maison<\/a><\/span>\u201d (Contribution to the rehabilitation of domestic work and, in particular, the role of men in the home), where she collaged well known historic artworks into household environments. Moreover, she contributed articles and illustrations to various journals of visual poetry.<\/p>\n

Several Galleries in France, Italy, Monaco and the United States represent Veronique\u2019s works. In the same countries, she had numerous personal and group exhibitions, but as well in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Currently she contributes to the group show \u201cExposition Histoire d\u2019un lieu: les 20 ans du Transartcaf\u00e9<\/a><\/span>\u201d (Exhibition History of a place: 20 years of Transartcaf\u00e9), inaugurated on November 28th, 2025, in Antibes.<\/p>\n

V\u00e9ronique lives and works in Antibes, France.<\/p>\n

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