Françoise Giannesini


Biography


An active figure in the «Nouvelle Tapisserie» movement, Françoise Giannesini's highly innovative and personal work since the 1980s has taken her from early woven works
to imposing abstract forms erected in space.

Her work soon gained international renown, and it was in 1991, after two years at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, that her architectural conception of her work took on a new dimension with her slate sculptures set in mortar.

It is in tension, with a mastery that rules out all chance, that the work finds its immobility and strength. Using wool, slate, blue shale and steel, Giannesini reflects on space, movement and light. She supports a different kind of research into the coherence of form and color in sculpture, and the rhythms and resonances of volumes.


Exhibitions selected


2020 - The Fibery Gallery, Paris
2017 - Espace Culturel Condorcet, Viry-Chatillon
2016 - Galerie Univer, Paris
2013 - Galerie CAPA, Madrid
2008 - Galerie CAPA, Brussels
2007 - Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris
2003 - Centre Culturel de l'Auditoire, Bonneval
2000 - Galerie Inard, Paris
1999 - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Arras
           Galerie Dorow, Berlin
1998 - Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers
1997 - Casa de Galicia, Madrid
           Inselgalerie, Berlin
           Galerie Arlette Gimaray, Paris
1985 - Galerie La Demeure, Paris
1978 - Galerie Lili Vallet, Aix-en-Provence

Public Collections

  • Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
  • Musée Jean Lurçat, Angers
  • Fondation CAPA, Alicante, Spain
  • Maritime Museum of the Island of Tatihou

 




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