Mireille Ripoll

Statement

I etch and play around with a single matrix, until it surrenders – in both the literal and figurative senses, letting forms emerge as they emerge, like automatic writing, without thinking, in an organic, instinctive way. I produce series or families of images and juxtapose them in order to create new images. My work is always a work in progress, with infinite possibilities. Sometimes I develop my work on the basis of monotypes, witch matrix is a drawing or portrait I work on in different ways in order to produce four and six portraits, conveying each time a different impression of the same person.

GlogauAIR Project

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CV Summary

EDUCATION

• 1988-1989 Etching class with Sylvie MARKWALDER, Centre de gravure contemporaine, Geneva
• 1996-1999 Painting class with Olivier JUREDIEU, “Here and Now” Workshop, Geneva
• 1999-2000 Academic drawing class by Geneviève ROMANG, Ecole supérieure d’Arts Visuels, Geneva
• 2000-2001 Etching class with Constanza BRAVO, “La Tinta” Workshop, Geneva
• 2001-2003 Etching class with Jacques LECKIE and Christian MEYER, Atelier genevois de gravure
• Since 1999 Consecrated with etching

GROUP EXHIBITION

• 1999 Diptych, Here and Now Workshop, Geneva
• 2000 RED, Here and Now Workshop, Geneva
• 2002 Open Door Workshop, Villa du Jardin alpin / Atelier 6 / Centre d’art en l’Ile
• 2004 Etching, Centre d’art en l’Ile, Geneva
• 2004 Etching, Ferme de la Chapelle, Lancy
• 2004 Postal Art, Espace Diamono, Carouge
• 2005 Open Door Workshop, Atelier 6, Geneva
• 2006 Leporello, Espace Diamono, Carouge
• 2007 Poster Etching, SSBA, Geneva
• 2007 Postal Art, Brussels
• 2007 Book Fair, Geneva
• 2007 Mireille Ripoll and Mireille Roy, exhibition at the Ephémère, Geneva
• 2007 La cerise sur le gâteau, Galerie Maya Guidi, Carouge
• 2007 Poster Exposition, Promenade Saint-Antoine, Geneva
• 2007 Erotic, Galerie Ruines, Genève
• 2008 Wine labels and Etching, Michel Roset, Bourdigny
• 2009 Identity : portrait – autoportrait, Michel Roset, Bourdigny
• 2010 The Pleasures of Old Age, Michel Roset, Bourdigny
• 2010 221 Works of Art Flying South, Ferme de la Chapelle, Lancy
• 2011 Rathania’s : Ars similis casus, Musée Rath, Geneva
• 2011 Trees, Galerie Ferme de la Chapelle, Geneva
• 2012 The Address, Musée de Carouge
• 2013 Exhibition at Collsuspina, Province of Barcelona, Spain
• 2014 Exhibition at the Galerie Ruine, Geneva
• 2014 Exhibition at the Maison Bleue, Soral, Geneva
• 2014 Tribute to J.M. Sert, UNO, Geneva
• 2014 Sans queue ni tête, Michel Roset, Bourdigny
• 2014 The Road To Nursery, Soral, Geneva
• 2015 Leaves-Stones-Scissors, Pinacothèque, Geneva
• 2015 Bien des choses, Michel Roset, Bourdigny
• 2015 Open Studios in GlogauAir, December 2015, Berlin
• 2016 Toro Exhibition at the Brot & Käse Gallery, A. Thevenoz, Geneva
• 2016 Open Studios in GlogauAir, September 2016, Berlin

SOLO EXHIBITION

• 2000 Sketches of Spain, “Here and Now” Workshop, Geneva
• 2003 Etching, Galerie Maya Guidi, Carouge
• 2011 End of Eden, Pinacothèque, Geneva
• 2016 Mimesis, Exhibition at the Gat Hotel Check-Point Charlie, Berlin

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