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Barres Christine | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

  • Barres Christine | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Barres Christine
  • France
  • Painter

I want to keep a window on the abstraction, to allow the canvas to journey.
Born in 1960, Christine Barres lives and works in Rodez in the Aveyron region. From an early age, she grew up in a colourful atmosphere and enjoyed the simple pleasures of life in the countryside. Painting was as important as speaking: Christine used the representation of shapes and shades to say everything that she could not express in words. Her essential element being colour, everything else was a pretext. \n\nAvoiding at all costs a creative routine and a redundancy of subjects, the artist seeks, before anything else, a resulting authenticity and emotional charge. So she begins with an idea, a feeling, a moment lived and transcribes it directly on the canvas with oil. Sometimes she slips some silhouettes or objects into her paintings, bringing them a figurative dimension, while keeping a part of abstration because she considers it as engine of creativity, as much as dreams and human relationships.
The artist’s strokes are bright, structured stripes created with the knife. Christine paints with a sweeping gesture, working the effects of depths and sculpting the material with all the energy and excitement she brings to the act of painting. She physically engages with her painting and her subtlety and generosity, literally penetrates the canvas to reveal a harmony, a delicate balance of colours and masses.\n\nThe artist is said to be free of any influences but is still affected by the "physical commitment" works by Nicolas de Staël and for the same reasons admires the works of his American contemporaries, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. Christine’s painting is faithful to what she is: a flood of light and joy. For her, life is an eternal source of wonder that we often forget to contemplate.

Currently this artist is only exhibited in our online gallery.

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  • 2011
    Exhibition at the Yves Dufresnes gallery
    Draguignan, France
  • 2009
    Exhibition at the
    Metz, France
  • 2008
    Exhibition at the Cultural Foundation
    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (the)
  • 1960
    Birth
    Bozouls, France
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