| Beaux-arts de Paris

On January 15, the Childress workshop exhibited in the right and left galleries the latest productions of the students present at the School.

12 diptychs, that is 12 pairs of images that meet like for a speed dating.

We tried to constitute these pairs as works for two, created a posteriori.

An alignment from the bottom of the paintings, engravings and prints offers a serene setting for the encounter,

like a coffee table, a bench, a beach.

With the works of :

Germain

Languille

Born in 1979 in Paris, lives and works in the Paris region.

In 2006, after a DNSEP at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and a Master 2 Pro in Management, marketing and distribution of cultural products, Germain Languille started his activity as a freelance graphic designer alongside Gilles Guinamard, whom he assisted for the opening of the Pinacothèque de Paris. He then worked for the entertainment and cultural sector: AFCCA, Centre culturel de Courbevoie, Xavier Veilhan, REDITEC.
In 2015, he stops his freelance activity to start teaching applied art at the CFA Médéric. He has been teaching at Via Ferrata since 2018.

Laurent

Lacotte

Born in 1981 in Bergerac, lives and works in Paris and elsewhere.

Laurent Lacotte is an artist who favours in situ work and generally conceives his works according to the places he is in. Since the beginning of his work as an artist, he has deliberately used fragile and precarious materials to create installations that are most often ephemeral. He frequently intervenes in the street, or in sensitive areas of human circulation and/or sharing of territories.

More generally, his art, which confronts reality, highlights the tensions, contradictions and shortcomings of our contemporary society. He creates with humor and poetry installations and singular environments. He weaves bridges between art and everyday life, exploring notions related to public and institutional space, the intimate and the universal. The notion of the collective takes a definite place in his reflection and in his way of considering creation.
His work is regularly exhibited in galleries, art centers and museums and his works are present in several public and private collections.
For several years now, he has regularly led numerous workshops in art schools and beyond.

Michaël

Jourdet

Born in 1980 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, lives and works in Meaux.

After a degree in plastic arts at the Sorbonne, Michaël Jourdet joined the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts de Rueil-Malmaison. After obtaining a DNAP in 2003, he joined the Fine Arts of Paris, then received the Congratulations of the jury during his DNSAP in 2007. Since 2008, he regularly exhibits in Paris and in France: the 104, the Gaîté Lyrique, the Galerie le Plateau, the Abattoirs de Toulouse... and participates, at the same time, in different artistic structures or associations such as the association Jeune Création or the Collectif Ring. He teaches drawing and painting since 2011.

The teaching of the artist Claude Rutault and the writings of Kasimir Malevitch, at the beginning of his career, direct his plastic work and his questioning towards monochrome, conceptual painting, its exhibition and its interpretation by an audience. The notions of frame, surface and screen remain the bases of his plastic proposals.

Julie

Genelin

Born in 1977 in Nantes, lives and works in Argenteuil.

Through her installations, performances and the objects she creates, French-Austrian Julie Genelin scrutinizes how our societies relate to time. Her work has mirrored this quest since her graduation from the Paris fine arts school “Les Beaux Arts” in 2006. She has since been able to federate and join forces with other artists through the creation of two associations : Celeste, which was set-up in 2005 and organized art exhibitions and artists residences in Beijing until 2012, and The Chromatic Circle which has been gathering Paris Beaux-Arts School Alumni since 2017.

Julie also holds a post-graduate degree as a Doctor of German studies and nurtures a passion for language which she translates into her artistic exploration of forms. Thus her practice as an explorer of matter, time and language has framed her expression as an artist and fed her teachings as a fine arts (drawing, painting and modeling) instructor at Clamart Community College (Université Populaire de Clamart) from 2013 to 2017, and then at the Via Ferrata since 2016.

Béatrice

Duport

Born in 1960 in Saint Quentin, lives and works in Montreuil.

Béatrice Duport studied at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy, the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the Universität der Künste Berlin.
She regularly teaches in art colleges but also at the CAMM in Bamako, Mali.

Starting from the expanded field of sculpture and attached to the capture of reality, Béatrice Duport practices various mediums that she arranges in specific installations. She approaches space in its dimensions - architectural, geo-historical, cultural and social. Her pieces work on a link between spectators, subjects of an experience in the enclosed space of an exhibition, and external realities, near or far, past or present. They involve the perception of the spectator and solicit his active reception, seeking to construct what Jean Rouch called a "shared anthropology".

Luc

Chopplet

Born in 1981 in Paris, lives and works in the forest of Fontainebleau.

Pedagogical manager of Via Ferrata.

Graduated from the Rueil-Malmaison art school (2003), the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2005) and the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (2008), he has been teaching drawing and painting since 2009. His artistic work has been shown in exhibition spaces and cultural institutions in France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2016, he created the preparatory class Via Ferrata at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he is the pedagogical team and the organization.

Magdalena

Chansel

Born in 1978 in Bucharest, lives and works in Paris.

An art historian with a double Master's degree in Renaissance art and contemporary architecture, as well as a DESS in history and management of cultural heritage obtained at the Sorbonne, Maria-Magdalena Chansel is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the performative aspects of Arte Povera, under joint supervision of the Universities of Paris X and Rome III.

Since 2009, she has been teaching in French and English, notably for the American University of Paris and the Institut d'Etudes Supérieures d'Art (international section, Master's level), specializing in the teaching of contemporary art and performance practices.

In parallel, she regularly collaborates with the journal Connaissance des Arts, for which she writes articles on current exhibitions in France, and has worked for contemporary art and photography galleries, including Esther Woerdehoff and Cyrille de Gunzburg.

Daphné

Brottet

Daphné Brottet has been teaching preparatory classes at Via Ferrata-Beaux-arts de Paris from the very begining where she guides her students through Modern and Contemporary Art with onsite visits to exhibitions and suggests extra focuses in relation to them. She displays a keen interest in fostering her students’ artistic development throughout their year of training.

She also lectures at the Philharmonie de Paris using her expertise to explain temporary.

PhD Student in Æsthetic, she is doing a reasearch on various philosophical matters of « screen », its metaphysical involvements and phenomenology belongings, the in between and the fringes that it provides. While on the way, she is exploring news potentialities with an « off screen » being. She is graduated from les Beaux-arts, obtained a Master of Art in the History of Contemporary Art and attended the selective Curatorial Training Program at l'Ecole du Magasin.

And then, she co-founded RESzone, a nonprofit organization which promotes a curatorial practice in itself and in the widest sens of the term.

Erwan

Bout

Born in Heerlen in the Netherlands, lives and works in the Paris region.

Associate professor of arts, PHD in art sciences, researcher and theorist in art, National Education trainer.
At the Beaux-arts of Paris, Erwan Bout is a teacher in Via Ferrata, preparatory class for high schools of arts. He also acts as tutor and educational advisor in the AIMS (Artist Intervening in School Program).

He also teaches at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.

His research focuses in particular on the epistemological approach of art as well, and on the intersections between arts and sciences.

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