Yona Grandjean

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Paris (75), France
16 works

Writing is the basis of Yona Grandjean’s artistic approach. She likes heavy, thick, almost raw letters. For this reason it remains in a great sobriety of colors that better emphasizes the line.

His current work revolves around the collapse, deconstruction, fall, bursting, the disturbance of the letter in its transformations.

In a moving and fragmented architecture, letters are connected by entangled lines that circulate and transform them into constructions crossed by red lines, horizon, fixed point in chaos.

Process: It mainly uses Chinese ink and acrylic. Paper is important, she loves her material and works both freely and on canvas to give it a certain rigidity that allows her to play with her material and use the "accidents" on the ground.

She lives and works in Paris.

- 2007 - 2008: Latin calligraphy and painting with Claude Mediavilla.

- 1998 - 2002: Latin calligraphy with Kitty Sabatier.

- 2000 - 2002: Painting at the Ateliers Beaux Arts of the City of Paris, Glacière -
Atelier de Gonzalo Belmonte.

- 1996 - 2000: Drawing at the Ateliers Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, Sévigné & at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré.

- 1983 -1988: Diploma in Chinese Language and Civilization at INALCO (Languages’O).

Selection of exhibitions:

- 2018 - European White Coats Biennale, Paris

- 2017 - Philippe Gelot Gallery, Paris -- Domenig-Galerie, Vienna, Austria

- 2016 - European White Coats Biennale, Paris -- Philippe Gelot Gallery, Paris

- 2015 - Galerie de l’Europe, Paris -- Palais des Beaux Arts, Cracow, Poland

- 2014 - "ParisArtistes#", Paris - "Biennale Européenne des Blancs Manteaux", Paris

- 2013 - Länsmuséet Murberget, Härnösand, Sweden

- 2012 - "Contemporary April", Paris

- 2011 - Artclub, Cologne, Germany -- Fort Pienc, Barcelona, Spain

- 2010 - Ministry of Finance, Saarbrück, Germany

- 2009 - Espace Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

- 2008 - "Le Temps retrouvé", Cabourg, France

- 2007 - 52nd Salon d’art contemporain de Montrouge

Publication : "Research(s)", Éditions Alternatives 2005