Gourde
Squatting
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Fanny
lives with her Family and her terra cotta figures in a Grotto in Normandy at
the foot of a cliff. In entering the Grotto room used to exhibit her work one
feels that her figures are frozen in time, and frozen in their movements,
similar to those of the unearthed in Pompeii.
She grew up where she lives now and, as a child she played with the clay she now uses to create her statues, dreaming of what she has achieved now. Fanny seamlessly works her figures from the feet upward, with no models and not even a sketch. It is easy, she says, you just have to think yourself inside (the clay). She wants her people without apparel: They will always have something in common if we remove the superficial. My People have just what is necessary to exist.
"I look at all these Bodies, imperfect and inaccessible; and I see through them the perfection and the exacerbation of the Desire; I feel a motionless movement, a time that is frozen, an Eros that dresses and undresses." Bernard Blandin
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Studies: Beaux Arts, Angres & Paris, 1980 -1983 |
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Apprenticeships: Paris, Sevres and Venice ,1984 -1990 |
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Commissions: A Sculpture of St Francis offered to the Pope, 1992 |
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Solo
Exhibits: Paris, Brussels & various Cities in
France, 1985-1998 New Jersey, Mostly Glass Gallery, February 2000 |
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Group
Exhibits: Cities in France & Belgium,
1984-1998 SOFA Chicago, 1999, represented by Mostly Glass Gallery |
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Museums in France exhibiting her work: Roanne Limoges Conches Sevres |
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Prizes obtained in Exhibits & Contests:
France and Germany |