Marine Wallon French, b. 1985

Biography

Marine Wallon treats colours in landscapes. Each shade that she scrupulously stretches on the surface of the canvas participates in a panoramic expansion. With firmness, she configures uneven grounds with exquisite crusts. Ardour directs her tightrope walking gestures, in readjustment, always on the edge. Her tectonic is chromatic.-- Joel Riff, Art writer, curator, and artistic director of Moly Sabata / Albert Gleizes Foundation

Marine Wallon (b.1985 lives and works in Paris), studied at the Beaux-Arts Paris, where she graduated with an MFA before achieving a Post-Graduate diploma with professor Philippe Cognée. In her practice, the artist captures shots of anonymous travel agencies or travelling documentaries of individuals, which she translates through paintings, rendering the uncontrolled character of nature. Addressing her work as ‘not seductive but rather turbulent and vibrant’, she invites the viewer to reflect on the elusive movement that escapes direct visibility.

 

Marine’s latest work is currently being exhibited in a solo show Plus Haut Tremble at the Centre d'Art Contemporain / Passages, Troyes. On view until 1st April 2023. 
 
Recent solo and group exhibitions include Brasser Caré - duo show with Jennifer Douzenel, Catherine Issert (2021), Purple Lime, Stoppenbach & Delestre, (2021), Empire et Royaume, Art-O-Rama (2021), Figures, Catherine Issert (2021), Apparences (Art Centre, Perpignan), Happy Together, Collection Gilles Balmet (Pavillon Carré Baudoin, Paris, 2021), Fondation Colas (2020), Storytelling, Stoppenbach & Delestre (2020) a solo exhibition at the Point Commun, Contemporary Art Centre, Annecy (2019).
 
Marine was the named Laureat of the Prix Jean-François Prat 2022 chaired by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo;  2021 saw her being selected for a commission by the Louvre Chalcography, in association with the Ateliers d’Arts Musées Nationaux, France. 
In 2020 she was awarded the Colas Foundation Prize; the Moly Sabata prize at the Salon de Montrouge 2019.  
 
 
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