Silvie Brière
Born in Paris into a four-generation family of master glassmakers. Among other things, they created the dome for the Printemps department store and the stained-glass windows designed by Jean-Cocteau. In 1982, she joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the painting section, before devoting herself, for a time, to decorative painting. In 1997, she set up her artist's studio at Domaine des Fabriques in Jouques (Bouches-du-Rhône), where she developed a highly diverse practice: drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, installation...
From 2005 to 2010, she moved to a second studio in Zürich, focusing on small-format drawing, collage and ink. Here, she produced a series of collage drawings entitled L'Origine du monde, based on the work of Gustave Courbet.
In 2012, she ran a painting workshop at the psychiatric hospital La Mausole in Saint Rémy-de-Provence, where Van Gogh had been hospitalized. Through pictorial expression, she attempts to alleviate great psychological suffering. This led her to envisage an artistic approach to madness.
More generally, Silvie Brière's work revolves around the woman's body, inflicting all kinds of metamorphoses, a moult revealing in turn its origins, traces and scars.
On view at Private Choice 2021:
5 acrylic drawings on paper. Two from the series entitled Mother and Child ; three others from the Child series , the artist takes up a traditional subject from the history of art, the Madonna and Child. The work surprises us with its economy of means, the simplicity of its lines and the intimacy of the maternal relationship with her child.
