CLAIRE TROTIGNON. Illustrator
20/01/2016.
Collages and serigraphs
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO
metalocus, ANDREA PORTILLO
With a mixture of prints and drawings, architecture, landscape and cartography, Claire Trotignon creates a series of landscapes ranging from real to artificial, addressing the relationship between nature and construction as if she was an explorer from another century.
Terrain non constructible. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Menuiserie PVC. Landscape(s) Series. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Point de vue #2. Landscape(s) Series. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Sejour Double Hauteur. Landscape(s) Series. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Convertible en loft. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Plain pied lumineux. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Standing, ascenseur. Landscape(s) Series. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Les décrochés. Image © Claire Trotignon. Click above to see larger image.
Belvedere. Image © Claire Trotignon.
Explosion au carreau. Image © Claire Trotignon.
Leurs étais. Image © Claire Trotignon.
Rock A Hoola #2. Image © Claire Trotignon.
Metalocus discovers French artist Claire Trotignon, whose landscapes inevitably get our attention. Among her influences we find names as diverse as Rem Koolhaas, John Keats or Tim Ingold, and other artists who also work with the perception of space as Michael Heizer and Sol LeWitt, although she admitted that it is very difficult to summarize her influecias as they come from anywhere and anytime.
At an interview for Vulture Magazine, the artist said this about her work:
There is a major part of experimentations linked to the idea of space, including drawings. It refers mainly to constructed spaces where line is very present. We often pass from plan to volume through the idea of full by empty. I use many small fragments of antique prints I cut with scalpel, recomposed and associated them with drawing, it can stay as it is or be screen and printed to be cut out and rebuilt again. Whether installation or paper I built equilibrium spaces in a back and forth past future.
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Claire TROTIGNON
Claire Trotignon is an artist originally from Rochefort, France, a city with a 'very XVII century architecture style'. She has now been living in Paris for five years. She studied Art History for a year at the University of Poitiers and then attended the École des Beaux Arts de Quimper, to finally graduate from the École des Beaux Arts de Tours in 2008. She has collaborated numerous times with the French artist, Nils Guadagnin, with whom she also inaugurated an experimental gallery called ‘White Office’ during their studies.
Her practice conveys notions of space through Architecture, landscape and mapping - somewhere between the plan and the volume - in a back and forth process between the past and the future. Her work is expressed through the use of drawing, collage, screen-printing and installation, often in situ.
