Marie France Garrigues
Montauban, France
13 Works exhibited on Kooness
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During my youth, I followed courses in the workshop of the sculptor and professor Flavio de Faveri for more than two years in Montauban, city of which I am native. These years will allow me to express myself in the art of painting.
At the same time, scientific studies led me to the other side of the world where I was an executive in charge of investment operations for the Territory of French Polynesia in the field of building, then a representative of the President of the Government.
While building for the country and painting, Polynesia inspires me to write. I was published by Editions St Germain des Prés for two collections: "Bleu-vert est mon cyclone" and "De l'autre côté des mots" (On the other side of words) which earned me a few years later entry into the Société des Gens de Lettres de France.
Back in Metropolitan France in the 2000s, I diversified my techniques to devote myself to oil painting which attracted me more and more. In order to perfect this technique, I enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris and I took courses with Gilles Marey.
In 2010 painting became my only activity. Passionate about architecture, I dedicated a part of my paintings to New York and Paris, paintings that reflect my perception of the purified city, a purely architectural vision, where the human being disappears from the city after having created it. Through my paintings I seek solitude in a hyperurbanized space, and the perspectives that I like to capture are as many bridges from the material to the immaterial.
More recently it is by removing the color that the faces appeared... like a desire to fight... and meetings, places, passions, inspire me... Kong is alive...
In 2018 I was promoted to Sociétaire des Artistes Français and in 2019 to Sociétaire de la Fondation Taylor.