Valérie
Sonnier
Morphology
Born in 1967, Valérie Sonnier graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1993.
In 2003, she was appointed professor of drawing and morphology.
Using a variety of media - drawing, painting, photography and super8 film - Valérie Sonnier unfolds a universe exploring the links between intimate memories and the collective memory of childhood, notions of presence and absence, and ghostly apparitions. A series of her photographs at the Galerie Huguier is part of the school's photographic collection. His solo exhibition Tout dit dans l'infini quelque chose à quelqu'un, evoking Victor Hugo's links with spiritualism, was held in the writer's house in Paris and was part of the contemporary art programme for Nuit Blanche 2022.
A monograph was recently published in the Gratitudes collection by Éditions des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She is represented by the Nadja Vilenne gallery in Belgium, and the Dilecta gallery devoted a solo exhibition to her in 2023.
She was awarded the Prix Château Kirwan at the BAD+ fair in Bordeaux in 2024.
Daniel
Schlier
Drawing
Daniel Schlier is a graduate of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg (Sarkis workshop).
Professor of painting at HEAR Strasbourg and HEAD Geneva, he was then appointed to the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Both a painter, draftsman and engraver, Daniel Schlier attempts to contain the complexity of the world in his painting. Multiplying supports – canvas, marble, glass, wood – his works are all possibilities for generating a new world.
The figures, landscapes and various grotesques are like organisms, in permanent debate with the very elements that constitute them. He has notably exhibited at the Grand Palais (Paris, 2006), at the MAMC in Strasbourg (2007) and at the Beijing International Art Biennale (2009).
Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar
Jack
McNiven
Morphology
Through the technique of drawing, painting, installations and land art, Jack McNiven explores forms in movement. He uses morphology to dissect his subjects – Man, animals, nature – reducing them to their lines, their folds, their wrinkles. Made with chalk on a blackboard, his drawings appear, disappear and rediscover the ephemeral nature of all movement. In the form of installations, his drawings temporarily inhabit marine, urban and rural landscapes and bear witness to the interactions between artistic creation and nature.
Among its exhibitions in 2022: Teachers also scribble, Beaux-Arts de Paris; Forney Library – Nuit Blanche and Mullion Cove, Cornwall.
Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar
Frédérique
Loutz
Drawing
Frédérique Loutz manipulates, blurs and abruptly shapes forms.
Dictated by his drawing, they are most often hybrid. The artist mixes techniques not to associate them or confuse them but so that the contrast distinguishes them. She constantly tries to renew what she traces and succeeds precisely without succeeding. The vocabulary that she constantly uses, repeats and interprets again takes us into an often fantastic and phantasmagorical universe where friendly monsters and distorted familiar characters coexist.
Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar
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