Claudie Bastide (Catalogue 1)

HAYHILLGALLERY

C L A U D I E B A S T I D E

For some years I have let myself go to a recurring geometrical tendency and I ended up feeling somehow trapped in the shapes . I needed to escape more and more from the rigorous geometry of the last years and go to a more spontaneous expression .

I paint essentially according to my own feelings of a particular color; I mean that a blue or red or green color comes over me and I must dive into it until I get saturated with it .

The starting point being a color , the rest of a painting escapes from a preconceived idea or line or shape and I aim at letting loose the subconscious .

The last gestures are often violent with the use of knives and thick paint or with splashes on the canvas as if I wished to hurt it and engrave the marks of the instant .

My way of painting could be associated to the French movement called “ Abstraction Lyrique ” or the American “Abstract expressionism”.

Claudie Bastide

Caribbean Construction oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm

Abstraction 1 oil on canvas 116 x 89 cm

The Cat oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm

Faces oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm

En Avant oil on canvas 60 x 81 cm

The King is Dead (Diptych) 2007 Mixed media on board 100 x 100 cm (each)

The Pianist 2007 acrylic on canvas 116 x 81 cm

Blue Chair 2007 Mixed media on board 104 x 76 cm

Abstraction Around a Chair 2007 Mixed media on canvas 162 x 97 cm

Objects Flight 2007 oil on slate 50 x 71 cm

Grey Sword 2007 Mixed media on canvas 162 x 97 cm

The Cat 2007 oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm

Flying Balloon 2007 Mixed media on canvas 100 x 100 cm

The Scissors 2007 oil on slate 60 x 88 cm

Cosmic Writing 2007 Mixed media on canvas 100 x 100 cm

The Palettes 2007 Mixed media on board 73 x 116 cm

The Red Balls 2007 Mixed media on board 130 x 97 cm

Chair Portrait 2007 Oil on slate 90 x 44 cm

Qui Bon Vin Boit 2007 Mixed media on board 100 x 81 cm

Biography Main exhibitions 2010 _ SCREAMINC project at the SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL DES ARTS 2010 _ Collective exhibition Artists in Bastille "UNI-VERT" Bastille Design Center - Paris 2009 _ Collective exhibition Artists in Bastille "Heights Walls" Espace Commines - Paris 2009 _ Solo exhibition of chair-sculptures called “A WORLD UPSIDE DOWN” Taylor Foundation. Paris 2009 _ “El Sexto Continente” Artreview Culturel Center - Barcelona 2008 - ExArte gallery - Geneva 2007 - « Transmettre aussi » Espace Châtelet-Victoria - Paris 2006 - Salon Art contemporain Bois-le Roi may 22nd « Night of Poetry » at Espace Cardin - Paris 2005 - Halle Saint Pierre - Paris 2004 - Galerie Saint Pierre- Limoges 2003 - Galerie Arte Viva - Levallois Perret/Paris 2002 - Galerie Arte Viva - Levallois-Perret Halle Saint-Pierre - Paris 2001 - Espace CPP - Paris 2000 - Viaduc des Arts - Paris 1999 - Galerie Lorelei - Bruxelles 1998 - Museum of Arts Décoratifs - Paris Awards 2007 - Honor prize André Parinaud for paintings and sculpting 2005 - Honor Prize by the city of Avon-Fontainebleau 2004 - Silver medal awarded by « Société Académique Arts Sciences et Lettres » 1998 - First prize winner of a compétition of sculpted chairs

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