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