Elise Beaucousin

Statement

Elise Beaucousin is an artist from France, living in Paris and in Loire Valley in France. As a visual artist, her drawing practice combines plant and mineral elements, architectural observation and geographical maps. Slow, precise execution is characteristic of her graphic work, enabling her to draw on her imagination and memory of sensations arising from her experience of nature. Her different ways of drawing, on paper with graphite or on the wall with steel points (Steel Drawing) and black velvet, attentive to the exhibition space, are based on the observation of light’s interactions on materials and surfaces, and the resulting illusion of movement. In her drawing work, the aim is to envisage works that are like objects of perceptual experience, appearing and changing as visitors move around them. Graduate of the École supérieure des beaux-arts d’Angers in France, twenty-five of her drawings entered the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2013. Her first solo exhibitions were held in Paris, at Galerie du Haut Pavé in 2007 and Galerie Premier Regard in 2008. She takes part in several exhibitions on contemporary drawing in France and international countries. In 2019 and 2020, thanks to a French program, she is doing a first artist residency in Berlin and taking part in an exhibition in Glogauair in September 2019. In 2019, she will also take part in two exhibitions in Beijing featuring French artists. In 2021, her drawings from the Centre Pompidou collection will be shown at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Her research can be traced back to that of minimalist artists, who were less interested in creating objects than in creating a relationship between the exhibition space, the visitor and the work, where a visual experience is produced and exacerbated.

GlogauAIR Project

Recently, several exhibition curators in France have asked me to develop drawing in relation to architecture, and from these in situ drawing installations, I’ve started working with black and white silver photography. During my residency at GlogauAIR, I want to develop this in situ drawing work on a large scale, and experiment with the association of silver photography in an installation project. With black velvet, I’ll work on the visual rhythm in relation to the wall, and prepare a drawing for a musical performance. The residency at GlogauAIR is an opportunity to develop my large-format drawings in relation to the wall and architecture.

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CV Summary

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2021. Esprits animaux, La Distillerie, Superior Art School TALM-Angers. France
• 2012. Accélérer, Cour Carrée Gallery, Paris.
• 2009. Pièces Froides, Dupuytren Museum, museum of pathological anatomy, Paris.
• 2008. Elise Beaucousin, Premier Regard Gallery, Paris.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2024. Inspiré.e.s – Dessin Contemporain, l’ar(T)senal contemporary art center, Dreux, France.
• 2021. Small collection, Bertrand Grimont gallery, Paris.
• 2021. Selection of drawings from the Guerlain collection of Centre Pompidou, Pouchkine museum, Moscow. Russia.
• 2019. Schwarz in Weiss, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany. Co-exhibition with artists from GlogauAIR residency.
• 2019. Antichambre – french scene, George V Art Center, Beijing, China.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOP

• 2023. Workshop at l’école nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, ENSAD-Paris.
• 2020 Artist residence of 2 months in Berlin – A Roof Above Your Head 2020, French Program.
• 2019 Artist residence of 1 month in Berlin – A Roof Above Your Head 2019, French Program.
• 2017 Artist residence of 3 months at the museum Saint-Roch of Issoudun, France.

PUBLIC COLLECTION

• Centre Pompidou, Paris – Guerlain Donation

EDUCATION

• 2001. Bachelor of Visual Arts. (Honours) – Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, France.

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