Guitemie

Maldonado

Art history professor

Contemporary art historian and critic Guitemie Maldonado devoted her thesis to biomorphism in the interwar period (Le Cercle et l'amibe, 2006), extending it with more occasional monographic studies (devoted to Jean Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Joaquin Torres Garcia, Sonia Delaunay, Henry Moore...) and a constant interest in in-between situations (art-nature, art-science, abstraction-figuration).

She has also focused on the situation of abstraction after the Second World War, in particular through a monograph on Nicolas de Staël. Through various encounters and circumstances, she began writing about contemporary art, for exhibitions (Bernard Piffaretti, Djamel Tatah, Sophie Dubosc, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Pierre Buraglio, Frédérique Lucien...) and magazines (Artforum, artpress, Roven and currently The Art Newspaper).
 

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Thierry

Leviez

Scenography

Thierry Leviez is Director of Pavillon Bosio, Monaco's École supérieure d'arts plastiques specializing in art and scenography. From 2016 to 2021, he was head of exhibitions at Beaux-Arts de Paris. There, he curated numerous exhibitions and was in charge of the "Artistes & Métiers de l'exposition" program, a residency for young curators and "L'entour", a seminar on the history and technique of exhibition scenography attended by students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais.

Previously, he curated exhibitions for Printemps de Septembre, where he developed a wide range of projects, from Jorge Pardo's permanent set for the Musée des Augustins to various retrospectives and new productions for the city of Toulouse.
 

Christian

Joschke

Art History

Christian Joschke is an art historian and is particularly interested in the relationship between arts and politics and the history of photography. Between 2007 and 2020, he successively taught as a lecturer at the Lumière Lyon 2 University and the Paris Nanterre University. He twice held a substitute professorship at the University of Lausanne, was a Research Fellow at the IFK in Vienna, at the Ryerson Image Center in Totonto, and at the department of art history and archeology at Princeton University (New Jersey, United States) and Humboldt University Berlin (Rudolf Arnheim Chair, 2023).

He translated books by Hans Belting – whose assistant he was at the Collège de France (2003) – and Horst Bredekamp. He published The Eyes of the Nation. Amateur photography and society in the Germany of William II (Dijon, Presses du Réel, 2013). He co-organized the Photography, Class Weapon exhibition. Social and documentary photography in France 1928-1936 at the Center Pompidou (catalogue at Textuel, 2018) and founded the magazine Transbordeur with Olivier Lugon. Photography history society published by Macula and with him directs the “Transbordeur” collection with the same publisher.

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Rémy

Pommeret

Ceramics

Rémy Pommeret graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Nancy in 2019. He grew up in the Paris region where he developed an interest in several artistic disciplines: music, theater, cinema, drawing. Interested in natural sciences and creatures from myths and cinema since childhood, he creates his predominantly animal universe around sculpture and engraving. He seizes codes historically linked to decorative arts, hieratic art, statuary or even natural sciences to create hybrids aimed at delivering a dark poetry about our time. For him, ceramic becomes both an ecological medium as well as an organic material reminiscent of the living, metamorphosis or even death.

Carole

Leroy

Foundry teacher

Carole Leroy obtained a BTS visual artist in the architectural environment at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués before graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1994. In 2000, she created the Forge studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In her approach, Carole Leroy wishes to highlight the work of molten metal which stretches, marks and transforms while keeping the indelible and primordial imprint of its shaping. Interested in the process of writing, his works are series of assemblages of forms and counter-forms that attempt to exhaust the rule of their appearance.

Among his recent exhibitions: L Concept Gallery (Paris, 2018), Galerie du Colombier (Paris, 2017), YIA Art Fair (Paris, 2014) and the 3rd biennale of sculpture (Yerres, 2011).

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Julie

Courel

Video Practice

Director of documentary films and researcher in documentary and anthropological cinema in Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso), Julie Courel teaches the practice of video. In her research, she is particularly interested in the daily experience of Ouagadougou communities undergoing rapid change. His film I make a balafon (2007) which reveals the traditional making of a mythical musical instrument from West Africa, received the Bartok prize for ethnomusicology at the Jean Rouch international festival (2008), his doctoral thesis on street food, accompanied by three films, was published in 2015, Le restaurant Tchara.

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Jérémy

Berton

Composite Materials

Jérémy Berton graduated from Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2010. His sculptural work questions reality and its representations. The everyday forms that he seizes, transposed and synthesized using various materials, take on a poetic and offbeat dimension. Tinted with humor, his works – a subtle blend of compositions, balances, plays of scale and illusions – succeed in compelling attention and reversing perspectives.

Among his recent exhibitions: POTCB (Orléans, 2017), la Vigie (Nîmes, 2017), La Vallée (Brussels, 2017), 67th Salon Jeune Création (2017), Camille Lambert art center (Juvisy, 2013) and the Quincy Abbey (Tanlay, 2011). He is co-founder of the New Folder association and the Atelier Entre-Deux in Pantin.

Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar

Pascal

Aumaître

Wood techniques

After studying cabinetmaking and wood sculpture at the Saint Luc Tournai Institute, he obtained his Beaux-Arts diploma from Paris in 1986. In his multidisciplinary work, Pascal Aumaître exploits the transformative capacity of the wood medium and attempts to to interfere in the intimacy of the material in order to create forms which touch as much on the tradition as on the contemporary. His experiments are carried out in fields as different as cinema and television, theater sets, architectural models, frames, staircases, furniture, marquetry, musical instruments, restoration of sculptures and antique furniture or even the manufacture of bas-reliefs.

Tatiana

Trouvé

Studio professor

Tatiana Trouvé studied at Villa Arson in Nice and participated in the residency program of Atelier 63 in Haarlem (De Atelier) in the Netherlands, as well as at ISIP in New York. She taught at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon from 2002 to 2006 and has participated in numerous personal and collective exhibitions, biennial and triennial, in museums and institutions abroad as well as in France.

Tatiana Trouvé's drawings, architectural installations, sculptures and objects replay the coordinates of space and time on material and physical levels as much as on psychic levels. Domestic spaces merge with natural spaces, the mineral grows and the living freezes, the interior and exterior become indistinct, the two dimensions of the design combine with the three dimensions of the volume, the scales and the relationships between things are altered... Thus, the orders and laws which define our reality are recomposed in worlds where new coexistences are formulated, where space and time float, where our perceptual markers move, at the origin of an experience disorientation.

Photo credit: © Adrien Thibault
 

Nathalie

Talec

Studio professor

Attracted by the poles and cradled by the ancient and modern stories of explorers such as Paul-Emile Victor, Nathalie Talec created a poetically frozen scientific-fictional universe in the 1980s. In search of original purity and fascinated by the action of the cold, she experiments through it the questions of perception, studies the action of chemical or atmospheric phenomena on the elements and lets stories weave through her drawings, photographs, sculptures. , installations, performances or sound works. While the cold generates stories, the artist explores different media: she has particularly worked on the technique of porcelain biscuit and ceramics in recent years and created sculptures with the Manufacture de Sèvres. After teaching sculpture in 1989 at the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême, then in Tours until 2013, she joined the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2015. Her studio, particularly lively and multidisciplinary, gives as much beautiful to collective projects than to experiential protocols linked to the body and the object.

It is above all the exploration and the story that it generates that prevails with this artist to whom several monographic exhibitions have recently been devoted: at Mac / Val in 2008, at the YBCA Yerba Center of Arts in San Francisco in 2012, at the Musée d'Art d'Amiens and at the Frac Franche-Comté in 2016, at the Martell Foundation in Cognac in 2018 or at the EDF Foundation in Paris in 2019 alongside Fabrice Hyber.

Photo credit: © Nathalie Talec