{"id":9819,"date":"2022-03-06T18:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?page_id=9819"},"modified":"2022-03-06T18:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:49:28","slug":"severine-gambier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?page_id=9819","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9verine Gambier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in 1956 in Paris, S\u00e9verine Gambier grew up in an artistic environment. Despite, or because of that, she never had a classical artistic education. After her high school graduation, she frequented the cinema world and dreamt of making films of her own. During practicing different kind of jobs, she pursued writing, painting, drawing and made collages. Confirming her predilection to outsider art, she visited exhibitions of \u201cart brut\u201d including the historic show \u201cLes Singuliers de l\u2019art\u201d at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art moderne de la Ville de Paris<\/a><\/span> in 1978. At the same time, she discovered the works of Adolf W\u00f6lfli<\/a><\/span> and Alo\u00efse Corbaz<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

A painful cut in S\u00e9verine\u2019s life was the premature death of her husband. Revealed originally during hiding a hole in a bathroom wall, the mosaic became essential to her work at the end of the 1990s. For the artist, it is a medium of fragmentation, fracture and splinter, but at the same time an expression of reconstitution and reconstruction. Herewith she could express her emotional chaos. It was an artistic translation of her confused feelings, her wounds and scars. By the time being, the feelings got more universal: How can one connect the chaos of the world with the need to create harmony in one\u2019s internal disorder? How to weaken the symbols of power? How to point to the absentees, the forgotten, the unheard?<\/p>\n

As answer to these and other questions, S\u00e9verine developed her own language. For example, she shatters ancient plates with portraits of past politicians and assemble them in a new context, like in our artwork of the month March 2022. She embeds the fragments of porcelain in splinters of flowers and ornaments to introduce beauty. Here, red flowers are a symbol for rebellion. Besides the destruction of the ancient powers, she refers to the people who created these and other ceramics long ago and today unknown, bygone for our awareness. Herewith, she returns grace to these people to calm down the anger.<\/p>\n

S\u00e9verine had her first exhibition in 1988 at the Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris. Since 2006, she is represented by the Galerie B\u00e9atrice Souli\u00e9<\/a><\/span>, Paris then Marseille. The gallery regularly participates with S\u00e9verine\u2019s works at the Outsider Art Fair<\/a><\/span>, Paris. In 2019, her oeuvres were part of the HEY! 4<\/a><\/span>, a recurring show of outsider art, in the Halle Saint-Pierre<\/a><\/span>, which is a centre of art brut in Paris. In 2021, S\u00e9verine worked with the French drawer Mad Meg<\/a><\/span> for the exhibition \u201cDell\u2019 Ornamento\u201d (From Ornament) in the Galerie Gasparelli Arte Contemporanea<\/a><\/span> in Fano, Italy. This was the departing point for further shows in Italy. For a cooperation between the Galerie Gasparelli and the Gallerie D406<\/a><\/span>, the original exhibition was enlarged. The result was displayed at the Art Verona<\/a><\/span> in October and The Others Art Fair<\/a><\/span> in Turin one month later. From November 2021 to March 2022, works of both artists were on view at the \u201cMarginalia<\/a><\/span>\u201d in Pavia and will be shown in May 2022 at the BOOMing Contemporary Art Show<\/a><\/span> in Bologna by the Galleria D406. A newly created tryptic will be presented in June 2022 in France. It will be exposed in the Fondation Bernardaud<\/a><\/span> in Limoges<\/a><\/span>, city of porcelain.<\/p>\n

S\u00e9verine lives and works in Paris.<\/p>\n

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Artwork of the Month \/ March 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n