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Violaine Dubernard Laurent Violaine Vieillefond Water Reflections
Sounds, Colors, Patterns of Waves  June 8 - July 16, 2026 Solo exhibition Curator : Pr. Misato IDO Professor, Facutly of Design and Architecture Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives Mastugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 6068585 JAPAN --> Download the flyer in Japanese (JP) <-- --> Download the flyer in English (EN) <-- http://www.museum.kit.ac.jp http://www.kit.ac.jp https://www.univ-museum-kyoto.com      @Photos Violaine Vieillefond -  Artworks: Heavenly Landscapes Unfolding, 14 & 15, each hanging scroll: 190 x 80 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2025  -            With Pr IDO Photo Credit: KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology    Pr. Misato IDO ido@kit.ac.jp Lecture annoucement www.d-lab.kit.ac.jp/events/2025/violaine-vieillefond-lecture www.kit.ac.jp   - NINFAE  March 21 - April 12, 2025 Solo exhibition Opening on Friday March 21, 2025, 6 pm during the Venice Gallery Weekend (March 21 - 23, 2025) Marignana Arte Project Room Dorsoduro 140 A, Rio Terà dei Catecumeni 30123 Venice, Italy Exhibition accompanied by a critical text by Jonathan Molinari, PHD, Professor of Philosophy at Ca' Foscari University : "Through the Eyes of Orpheus: On Violaine Vieillefond's Ninfae " Press review: ARTFORUM, "Venice is for dreamers", Travis Jeppesen around Venice Gallery Weekend 2025 EXIBART, "Apparizioni d’immagini e di ninfe da Marignana Arte a Venezia" ARTSLIFE, 'Venice Gallery Weekend. Ecco tutto il programma della festa dell’arte a Venezia" VENEZIA NEWS : VIOLAINE VIEILLEFOND. NINFAE VENEZIA NEWS : VENICE GALLERY WEEKEND 2025                       Ninfae, Marignana Arte Project Room, 2025 info@marignanaarte.it www.marignanaarte.it +39 041 2436356 https://www.marignanaarte.it/artist/violaine-vieillefond/ https://www.marignanaarte.it/violaine-vieillefondninfae21-03-12-04-2025/     Link to the works : https://violaine-vieillefond.odexpo.com/default.asp?page=8003&sm=&galerie=66334&lg=&ng=Ninfae Link to the books : https://violaine-vieillefond.odexpo.com/default.asp?page=1409&lg= "Through the Eyes of Orpheus: On Violaine Vieillefond's Ninfae " by Jonathan Molinari, PHD, Professor of Philosophy at Ca' Foscari University    - L'ORO DELL' ACQUA June 3 - July 8, 2024 Solo show Palazzo ALBRIZZI-CAPELLO Sala della Musica Fondamenta Sant' Andrea Cannaregio 4118 30121 Venice, Italy With SEE Galerie and Galerie Faure Beaulieu (Paris) ItsLiquid Group, ACIT- Institut Goethe (Venice) Curator Luca Curci Opening : https://www.itsliquid.com/review-violainevieillefond.html Press release : https://www.itsliquid.com/lorodellacqua-violainevieillefond.html            Image Courtesy SEE Galerie / Galerie Faure Beaulieu Arnaud Faure Beaulieu, co-founder of SEE Galerie/ Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Paris
"For her first exhibition in Venice, Violaine Vieillefond wanted to present an installation in one of Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello's main rooms, la Sala della Musica, and its 18th century frescoes. Fascinated by painting and fluid mechanics, most of all water, Violaine Vieillefond shows us that she has a particular talent for bringing her universe into resonance in spaces, the characteristics of which can sometimes seem complicated for contemporary art. Here, in this magnificent and classic room sufficient in itself, Violaine unfolds her screens to create a fluid way within the room while exploiting its particularities. This road, which the visitor is invited to follow, takes us on a path that can echo that of the gondoliers’ crisscrossing the canals in the middle of this landscape where water and heritage merge. Letting his/her mind escape, the visitor finally faces a wall made up of distorting mirrors bringing together all the elements of the room, from the oldest to the most contemporary, into a new unity of shapes, styles, colors and periods." www.itsliquid.com
www.acitve.it www.see-marais.com www.galeriefaurebeaulieu.com   Courtesy ItsLiquid Group   With Violaine Vieillefond inside « L’oro dell’acqua » Il Gazzettino, Venezia-Mestre June 30th, 2024 By Claudia Meschini ART. VENICE The Music Room of the Albrizzi-Capello Palace (Cannaregio 4118), headquarters of the ACIT, Italian-German Cultural Association, houses «L'oro dell'acqua», the first solo exhibition in Venice by the French artist Violaine Vieillefond, an exhibition offering a subtle dialogue with the frescoes and stuccoes of the eighteenth century that decorate the walls and ceilings of the Room. The exhibition presents large-scale triptychs from Violaine Vieillefond’s latest paintings. The artist invites us to take a glance at her favorite theme, water, a symbol deeply linked to sea travelss, migrations, encounters with foreigners, ecoloical disasters as well as to the unknown, imaginary or unconscious territories. In the paintings of Vieillefond, the blue color predominates, in contrast with the light of gold, the two shades being inspired by the moasaics of the Serenissima, when Venice, proud of its maritime power, was flooded with gold, the decorative gold par excellence, whose illustrious example is of course Saint Mark’s Basilica. In Vieillefond’s superb triptychs arranged in folding screens, also predominate the shades of the azure that harmonize with gold: the famous Venetian blue of the lagoon that blends with the green and reflects the blue of the sky. “Here, gold expresses the experience and emergence of life that is born of water (L’oro dell’acqua), similar to a resurrection,” explains Nevia Capello, ACIT’s President. The last painting of the series is a direct tribute to the «Great Kanagawa Wave» of Hokusai, where gold recedes in the background and blue is highlighted with the first synthetic pigment: the Prussian blue which had already invaded the Venetian skies of Antonio Canaletto. Created in collaboration with Itsliquid Group, Galerie Faure Beaulieu in Paris and the Italian Goethe Insitut, the exhibition organized by Luca Curci is to be seen until July 8th, from Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.
  L’ORO DELL' ACQUA, presented by Itsliquid Group, in collaboration with ACIT Venice – Italian-German Association / Goethe Institut, SEE Galerie and Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Paris, is the first solo exhibition of French artist Violaine Viellefond in Venice.
In a subtile dialogue with the beautiful 18th century frescos decorating the walls and ceilings of Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello’s Sala della Musica exceptionnally arranged for this occasion, and collateral to a National Pavilion of the 60th Biennale of Art, the exhibition will feature a unique display of large scale triptych folding screens of her most recent paintings. The artist invites us to cast a new glance at her favorite subject, Water, at once a pictorial medium, a symbol and resource in the very heart of our contemporary issues - deeply connected with sea travels, migrations, foreign encounters, hazards, unknown, imaginary or unconscious territories. “First of all, that wherever you go and wherever you are you will always encounter foreigners - they/we are everywhere. Secondly, that no matter where you find yourself, you are always, truly, and deep down inside, a foreigner” (Adriano Pedrosa, curator for the 2024 Biennale of Art). - COTE OUEST n° 167, October-November 2023 By Sonia Lazzari L'ORO DELL' ACQUA   - L'ORO DELL' ACQUA September 12 - 16, 2023 Solo show Galerie Etienne de Causans 25 rue de Seine 75006 Paris          Courtesy Galerie Etienne de Causans   Artwork: L'oro dell'acqua V (detail), 195 x 358 cm, 2022, acrylic on canvas - UTOPIA NOW July 6 - September 23, 2023 Group Show SEE Galerie 238 rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris https://www.see-marais.com https://www.see-marais.com/violaine-vieillefond  UTOPIA NOW
Summer is here, Parisians are about to leave on vacation, some of them heading to the seaside, others planning to attend festivals and exhibitions. Are you dreaming of calm and idleness ? Colors and joie de vivre ? Simplicity and poetry ? At See Galerie, we caught some sunrays in order to imagine a unique show as vitaminized as a cocktail. UTOPIA NOW invites you to discover imaginary lands,a fictive world developped around clues sown by the invited artists and guiding us through their own universes. An experience full of emotions, the atmosphere of UTOPIA NOW perhaps leads us towards the recklessness of a shared happiness, the hope of new beginnings ?
With artists : Perrine Boudy, Ylva Carlgren, Anastasia Carvalho,Cyprien Chabert, Anne Commet,Violaine Vieillefond, Janna Zhiri .      Photo courtesy See Galerie Born in 1970, lives and works in Paris. Resulting from fluid movements and tied to liquids properties, Violaine Vieillefond’s creations carry an emotional dimension, which rocks , overwhelms, or erases. She works on various surfaces, mostly on free canvases that she lays on the floor. As they’re partially or entirely covered with water, the artist drops the colors and the artworks appear under the unpredictable trajectories of the flows. To her, the original material is liquid and “is the matrix where the initial incident is going to lead to a series of needs’’.
In the Metamorphoses series, red moving shapes spring from the emptiness and immerse us into a feminine and fragile, both organic and floral, uterine and vegetal. The artist takes us inside the body and the cells, like at the origin of movement and life. By imitating Nature, the series elaborated by the artist pass through many cycles. In the Colors of Linen, Violaine Vieillefond explores seasonal transitions on original folding screens, in reference to the Japanese folding screens depicting admiration of Nature and beauty. Spring and Summer, such as colors explosions, unfold thanks to the artist’s gesture and the movement of the fluids. -
COTE OUEST n° 165, June-July 2023 By Laurence de Calan About group show EAU (Water) See Galerie 238 rue Saint Martin 75003 Paris (March 15 - May 6 2023)    Dance of Fluids Water is her elusive universe, the moving matter which endows her works with an infinity of nuances. Violaine Viellefond spreads down colour upon it then follows its contours and meanders, hardly guiding them. A sensation of space, a soft emotion, almost lunar , surrounded by mystery. By Laurence de Calan
Perhaps because as a child she often admired Monet's Nympheas (Water Lilies) at the Marmottan Museum where her mother who taught art history and comparative literature often took her, Violaine made water her prime inspiration. In California she discovered Abstract Expressionism, large canvases and photography Then having a double training, first scientific like her father who was an engineer, and in Art History and Painting under the tuition of Martin Bissière and Martin Lacomme Professors at the Beaux Arts of Paris, her fascination for coloured fluids in movement, for the micro macro cosmic worlds and for he metamorphoses of living. In her studio outside Paris , the artist submerges her free canvases lying on the floor with water then with colours , blue but also red, black and white, letting them mix freely, or spread or keep still. "I guide the pictorial matter towards certain forms but everything goes quickly and moves towards all directions, just as in life, and one cannot control everything!". If indeed she chooses acrylic on canvas for her series : "Water Canvases", "Lights of Foam", "Shades of Blue", "The paths of Water", "Hazard and necessity", the artist paints or imprints photographs on more original supports: plexiglas for The Garden of Waterfalls, or The Suspended Fountain, Petri boxes The Ballad of the Water Lily, pieces of dead leaves for Autumn Blues, brossé aluminium Dibond for Monuments and qua Alta, ceramics for Azuleros….Exhibited in France- the whole summer at the See Galerie in Paris, - in Japan, in New York, Brussels and Moscow, the artist is also the author of beautiful books Water Canvases , Blue Gold, On Water and Men, she has a passion for Venice, its deep waters with unique reflections. After her next exhibition, due at the Galerie Etienne de Causans from September 12 to 16, and the publication of NINFAE, a collection in four volumes of her ephemeral draperies in water right in the middle of nature, she will repair to Venice to work on aquatic videos and photo graphs. And she will continue , at a time when our source of life tends to become scarce and our oceans to overflow, to interrogate the blue planet. An aquatic universe filled with emotion and poetry.
(Translated by Annie Dubernard Laurent)
- BLACK IS BACK May 11 - June 17, 2023 Group Show SEE Galerie 238 rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris  BLACK
This is the zone where landmarks have vanished leaving room for all kinds of possibilities. Engulfed in darkness or absorbed in light, the black works do not reveal themselves at first sight. Attracted by their mysterious lack of visibility, one must come closer to them to detect the details and immerge into them to feel the vibrations. Darkness eventually leaves room for light which in this play of shadows sketches the forms and reveals the scale of the outlines. Colour then invites itself to spend a moment of intimacy so as to capture the matter and energy needed in the present gesture. The black matter is now able to reveal the quintessence of its density and elegance. It is a form of Absolute, bringing us close to the idea of the Infinite or of nothingness, leading us to a sort of introspection. Almost ten years after BLACK IS BACK, the exhibition imagined by Arnaud Faure Beaulieu having taken place in the loft of the artist Aberto Sorbelli in Paris, it is now in the See Galerie that the second chapter of the event takes place. This is how artists uch as Quentin Derouet, Frederic Galliano, Eva Hild, David Nash, Grégoire Scalabre, Vladimir Skoda, Alberto Sorbelli and Violaine Vieillefond come together. The exhibition BLACK IS BACK also offers an opportunity to show visitors a more conceptual experience of art. Indeed, being faithful to their performative approach, Quentin Derouet invites us to a sensorial and tasty face to face encounter, whereas Alberto Sorbelli suggests the art collector to interact with him via a notebook. With artists : Quentin Derouet, Frédéric Galliano, Eva Hild, David Nash, Grégoire Scalabre, Vladimir Skoda, Alberto Sorbelli, Violaine Vieillefond.
 Photo courtesy See Galerie Water Canvas, Lights XXII-1, 150 x 150 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2018-2019 Violaine was born in 1970 and works in Paris and Vitry-sur-Seine. Her creations, stemming from the movement of fluids and the metamorphosis of the element, take on an emotional dimension, now gentle , now submerging and destroying. She works on different supports, mostly on free canvases she always spreads on the floor. Once these are completely covered with water, the artist adds colours and the work takes shape according to the unpredictable routes of the flows. Within the frame of this exhibition, Violaine Vieillefond fills the space with an installation making water, the architecture of the place and its stones, converse. The series called Water Canvases takes us on a journey across shades of blue , pink and black. These works call up the glimmering surfaces of aquatic spaces but at the same time they plunge us into the very depths of gloomy, opaque waters. The journey, exploring the stormy shades of grey up to the ominous black in the pictures of the series. Shadows of Forms, may appear as a fall into the abyss of the oceans but also into the dark depths of the soul. But, faithful to the standpoint of Soulages, the artist is less keen on seeing darkness than light. Light upon dark works eventually bestows life upon the forms of water, its dark shades appearing as if weightless, ready to bring us back to light.   Photo courtesy See Galerie - EAU (WATER) March 15 - May 6, 2023 Group Show SEE Galerie 238 rue Saint-Martin 75003 Paris, FR Curator Frédéric Galliano https://www.see-marais.com https://www.see-marais.com/violaine-vieillefond PREVIEW   "Water", as the title of the present exhibition indicates, first and foremost brings to the fore the completely different working approaches and a selection of the specific relationships connected to this fluid. If indeed water can be a subject in itself, it may also be a vector, a tool, a process, even a way to highlight the work. This explains why all the different artists forming a group in this exhibition have all this element (water) in common as a the fundamental basis of their work or punctually on a specific series. Thus, the works presented here, which every way you look at them, are all basically different: Water as a work tool with Jo Lewis, as a time process with Albane Hupin, as drops analyzed and captured on photographs with Capucine Vandebrouck, as a smooth and fluent prop in Arrnaud's Pfeffer's realisations, as strange ecological observations of sea areas with Markus Hoffman, as transpositions of unlimited aquatic surfaces with Violaine Vieillefond, or a melancholy emotional and meditative subject with Yu Zhuo, and a philosophical experiment in the manner of Leibnitz with Frederic Galliano.These various expressions and plastic forms, thus connected to this fluid, allow us to reinvent new approaches. With artists : Frédéric Galliano, Markus Hoffmann, Albane Hupin, Jo Lewis, Arnaud Pfeffer, Capucine Vandebrouck, Violaine Vieillefond et Yu Zhuo
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Violaine was born in 1970 and works in Paris and Vitry-sur-Seine. Her creations, stemming from the movement of fluids and the metamorphosis of the element water, takes on an emotional dimension, now gentle, now submerging and destroying. She works on different supports, mostly on free canvases she always spreads on the floor. Once these are completely covered with water, the artist adds colours and the work takes shape according to the unpredictable routes of the flows. Violaine's Water Canvases call up at once the glimmering surfaces of aquatic areas and the more mysterious and gloomy submarine depths. Although the origin of water is transparency, the artist more often than not resorts to blue as a reference to the azure of the sky reflecting on water. Her works are large areas where sky and sea merge in their respective immensity. Within the frame of this exhibition, Violaine Vieillefond fills the space with an installation making water, the architecture of the place and its stones, converse. A more dramatic occurrence steps into her works: that of a sea which is always on the move with its floods and tides, on which our civilisations depend. The Acqua Alta series is a poetic reflexion on these movements which are out of control, the mysteries of engulfed cities and of their walls which disappear under the rising waters.     Photo courtesy See Galerie -         Photo courtesy Galerie Etienne de Causans - ANIMA MUNDI CONSCIOUSNESS May 13 - June 3 2022 Palazzo Bembo VENICE during the 59th Art Biennale Curator Luca Curci With ItsLiquid Group https://www.itsliquid.com/interview-violaine-vieillefond.htm     Photo courtesy Its Liquid Group DOWNLOAD ITSLIQUID GROUP PRESS RELEASE DOWNLOAD VIOLAINE VIEILLEFOND PRESS RELEASE ITSLIQUID ART SPACE – Venice Grand Canal Palazzo Bembo, 1rst floor Riva del Carbon, 4793 – 4785, 30124 Venice, Italy 09:30AM – 05:30PM | Monday – Friday www.itsliquid.com  Photo courtesy Its Liquid Group -  (extracts) Of water and men Collection of photographs of installations in situ in nature Foreword Hélène Tarantola Reponsible for the Cultural Heritage Department Flers Castle Museum and Archives Direction of Culture, Flers City and Agglomeration (Normandy) Photo book French/ English bilingual 122 pages December 2021 ISBN 978-1-00-604286-7 => See extracts or buy the book - UNESCO Group show November 2021 Curator Stefania Perrino Paris - Contemporary Venice Group show With Its Liquid Group, curator Luca Curci October 15 - November 5, 2021 Misericordia Archives, Cannaregio 30124 Venezia - Borders Art Fair Group show With Its Liquid Group, curator Luca Curci August 30 - September 19, 2021 THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space Calle Larga San Marco, 374 30124 Venezia - International Contemporary Art Fair Luxembourg With the VAN GOGH Art Gallery(Madrid) September 17 - 19, 2021 LUXEXPO - THE BOX Parc Expo - South entrance LUXEMBOURG - Flers Castle Museum (Normandy) "Colors of water" Curator Hélène Tarantola A dialogue with the 19th c. collection of the museum Trio show with Marion Zylberman and Antoine Milian May 19 (museums reopening) - November 21, 2021            Courtesy Flers Museum and Castle Exhibition catalogs: "Acqua alta " and "Toiles d'eau " (water canvases). - Venice International Art Fair Group show With Its Liquid Group, curator Luca Curci May 10 - June 3, 2021 THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space Calle Larga San Marco, 374 30124 Venezia - Meridian Art Center Group show Curators Stefania Perrino and Loreta Larkina March 2021 Moscow -  Monography Paintings 2000-2020 Introduction Annie Dubernard Laurent Editorial coordination: Benoit Delplanque (TIMKAT) Annie Dubernard Laurent Elizabeth Leith (English version) Illustrated bookin English or in French with texts and contributions by Isaac Ortizar, Bernard Point, Maryse Savalle, Michèle Tardat, Annie Dubernard Laurent, Anne-Claire Simon 240 pages September 2020 ISBN 978-1-71-514354-1 = > See or buy the book - Art Guild Gallery "Georgia on my mind" Group show Curator Stefania PERRINO and Loreta LARKINA Charity international initiative for COVID With the support of the government and of the UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION June 22 - July 22, 2020 Tbilissi (Republic of Georgia) 
ART ELYSEES Paris  with Galerie Anne-Claire SIMON      Courtesy Galerie Anne-Claire Simon Duo show with artist Tsuyu Bridwell - Galerie Anne-Claire SIMON "Blue" Group show Babs, Leon Billerbeck, Tsuyu Bridwell, Alexandria Deters, dopamine2000, Amalia Laurent,Tao Mao, Damien Naja, Violaine Vieillefond June 3 - 23 2019 16 rue Guénégaud Paris 6ème   Courtesy Galerie Anne-Claire Simon --- CASTEL PARIS "LHOOQ"  Galerie Anne-Claire SIMON La Galerie Paris March 26 2019 Private event Group show 15 rue Princesse Paris 6ème  - LILLE ART UP  with Gallery Anne-Claire SIMON February 28 - March 3, 2019 Lille Grand Palais www.lille.art-up.com.com      Courtesy Galerie Anne-Claire Simon with artists Babs,Tsuyu Bridwell and Marina Mardas - OFI Asset Management "Waterworks" Solo show Jan 30 - March 8, 2019 22 rue Vernier Paris 17ème France  - YIA ART FAIR Paris Contemporary Art Show with Gallery Anne-Claire SIMON October 18 - 21, 2018 Le Carreau du Temple Paris 3ème www.yia-artfair.com   Courtesy Galerie Anne-Claire Simon with artists Tao Mao and François Fries - Galerie ANNE-CLAIRE SIMON Group show
June 21 - 23 2018 16 rue Guénégaud Paris 6ème  - Galerie ARTCUBE "Monuments" in assocation with Art Furstenberg Solo show June 5 - 16, 2018 9 Place Furstenberg Paris 6ème     Courtesy Galerie ArtCube Exhibition catalog with a text by Maryse SAVALLE, writer and art historian. - Galerie ANNE-CLAIRE SIMON "FOCUS" Solo show March 29 - April 7, 2018 25 rue de Seine Paris 6ème                 Courtesy Galerie Etienne de Causans/ Anne-Claire Simon- MAISON BLANCHE Restaurant "Through the seasons" Solo show with Galerie Anne-Claire SIMON March 27- May 4, 2018 15 avenue Montaigne Paris 8ème          Courtesy Restaurant Maison Blanche, 2018 - ART MONTPELLIER Contemporary Art Fair South of France with SIMON & ROTH Gallery (Paris) December 7 - 10 , 2017 Sud de France Arena  - VERTHEUIL ABBEY Medoc (Bordeaux) "WATER MEMORIES" Solo exhibition Curator: Michèle MORLAN TARDAT July 7 - September 3, 2017 33180 Vertheuil en Médoc -> Return on the exhibition, a film by the city of Vertheuil:  http://www.vertheuil-medoc.com/2017/07/07/memoires-deau-a-labbaye-de-vertheuil/                               Courtesy Vertheuil Abbey Exhibition catalogs: " Suspended gardens " and " Of flesh & water ". |
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