ALISON BIGNON
BIO
Graduated with top honors from Beaux Arts de Versailles, France, in engraving, drawing, sculpture and video. She had exhibited my works nationally and internationally ( Los Angeles, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mauritius, London, Paris) she displays the real life stories of my sitters through my created abstract portraits. By drawing upon exchanges with ordinary people, it is in her apartment in Paris where she listens to and transcribes their stories; carefully archiving them in what she terms an « emotional data bank ». Using a range of media, including videoed performance monologues, paintings, drawings and engravings. She extracts the elusive from their stories, and it is there she believes her art operates, for these stories to become part of the bigger one.
ARTIST STATEMENT
For artist ALISON BIGNON , "Art is first and foremost an encounter." Her work draws on exchanges with ordinary people, and it is in her apartment in Clichy, Paris that the artist listens to and transcribes people's life stories, creating them into art. These stories are carefully stored in what the artist terms an "emotional data bank." According to Alison, to capture the inner movements of the soul, one must be a sensitive and empathetic listener and have the subtle versatility of an artist in order to transcribe.
Combining her background and experience as a classically trained actor, director,
and visual artist, Alison transcribes and creates the stories of her sitters using a range of media including videoed performance monologues, paintings, drawings and engravings. She describes this process as being similar to the work of an anthropologist that archives their research. Emotions form the central subject of Alison’s work, leaving one with an intricately detailed and complex composition that combines disparate elements to form a coherent and harmonic whole. Her paintings seep delicate strokes of colour – a spectrum of emotions, such as a painful wound that is difficult to heal and may scar over time. These markings of time – between past and present - are sewn together by the artist’s signature use of red thread, which acts as a subtle link between these intersections.
ARTIST CV
Education
Beaux Arts de Versailles ( engraving, drawing, sculpture, video ), graduated
with top honors ( With a special commendation from the jury )
École nationale de Chaillot ( actoring, directing )
Solo show
A road, Zeuxis Art room, London, curated by Amélie Du Chalard ( 2 june - 24
july 2016 )
Murmure d’une feuille, Mairie du 1er, Paris, curated by Thomas Brissault ( 17-27 dec 2015 )
Fragments II, Alliance Française, Los Angeles, curated by Virginie d’Haudrechy ( 17 sept - 17 nov 2015 )
Fragments, De Ré Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Steph Sebbag ( 16 dec 2014- 21 jan 2015 )
Group show
Affordable Art Fair Singapore ( 16 - 18 nov 2018 )
Rising sun setting, Singapore, Miaja gallery ( 7nov - 7 dec 2018)
Affordable Art Fair HONG KONG, with Miaja Gallery ( 18 - 22 may 2018 )
#SHE, virtual gallery across all major billboards . Curated by Avenir Art, Vanessa Power, London ( 10 nov - 27 dec 2017 )
Beyond borders, Blain Southern gallery, London, curated by NEXTgen ( 16 - 21 may 2016 )
SALO, galerie 24 Beaubourg, Paris, curated by Laurent Quenehen ( 6 - 10 ap 2016 )
Particule de fin, galerie de la Voûte, Paris, duo show with Camille Moravia ( 17 - 29 mar 2016 )
Fragments of, Castle Gibson, London, curated by MTArt ( 14 - 21 oct 2015 )
Space, contexts, habitats, Palazzo Biscari, Sicily, curated by Pietro Scammacca
( 30 june - 3 july 2015 )
Blue Nudes, De Ré Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Linda Dzhema ( 28 may - 27 june 2015 )
Nothing perishes, Soho Revue Gallery, London, curated by Will Pelham ( 14 april - 16 may 2015 )
Korea namboo international contemporary fine art festival, South korea ( nov 2014 )
ARTWORKS
