VIEW WORKS
Overview
Christine Cloos, born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, has lived in Giverny for thirty years.
She has participated in many exhibitions, individual or collective in Paris and abroad: Matthieu Dubuc Gallery in Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, Plexus Gallery in Montreux, Switzerland, Rudolv Gallery in Amsterdam, Holland, Be-Espace Gallery in Paris, Guimet Museum Bookstore in Paris, Monet-Marmottan Kitagawa Garden Museum, Japan, Marine Art Show in Paris, Espace 87 Gallery in Giverny.
After working in the Genovesio-Malesset painting restoration workshop in Paris, then for Historical Monuments (restoration of wall paintings of churches, castles) and followed modeling courses with Serge Block, at the Montparnasse school , she participates in the creation of sets for advertising, theater, cinema while continuing, in parallel, a personal work of oil painting in glaze on wooden panels.
In 1991, she moved to Giverny and took the support of iron, cut and welded sheets, assembled into wall sculptures and reworked in oil glaze and gold leaf, to create series about Water, Fire, and Trees, a sort of iron calligraphy of the tree branch, in a play of full and empty, shadow and light, until 2013.
In 2006, parallel work on canvas, collage of various papers and oil painting took place. She abandoned sculpture to devote herself solely to this work on canvas. It addresses the theme of landscapes, the plains between sky and earth, then, trees, and more particularly birches, and then flowerbeds. The
proximity of Claude Monet’s garden led her to explore flower beds, this organized and structured jumble, this corrected, polished and yet powerful
nature, overflowing with almost uncontrollable energy.
In this year 2023, she once again addresses the theme of trees but this time, in a landscape. “I do not seek to paint a landscape as it is in reality, I paint the feelings it evokes, the emotion that it produces and of which I try to rediscover a trace.”
“When I begin a collage, I let my intuition go – the imprint in me made by a landscape, a light, a season, a blade of grass, a feeling – without the help of
reasoning. I allow for spontaneity. And I make use of accidents, the effects of the material that happen by chance and little by little, patiently, I redirect
everything towards this initial idea glimpsed in an intuitive way but which is always the unifying thread. In the end, it is a balance between impulse and
self-control.”
Exhibitions
2023
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
T-ROOM Gallery, La Roche-Guyon, FRANCE
2022
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
T-ROOM Gallery, La Roche-Guyon, FRANCE
2021
Art3f Mulhouse, FRANCE
Art Shopping Deauville, FRANCE
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
RESORT KINGSTON, XI’AN, CHINA
2020
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
T-ROOM Gallery – La Roche-Guyon, FRANCE
RESORT KINGSTON, XI’AN, CHINA
2019
Art3f Brussels, BELGIUM
Le Printemps des Puces, “a merchant, an artist”, Marché Biron, Paris,FRANCE
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE(permanent artist)
RESORT KINGSTON, XI’AN, CHINA
2018
ART FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL QU GUO JIN, Artist residency in April in Xi ‘An,
CHINA
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
ROUGE-EPHEMERE Gallery, HONG KONG (permanent artist)
ART and COLLECTION Gallery, Colmar, FRANCE (permanent artist)
2017
Affordable Art Fair HONG KONG May 2017
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
ROUGE-EPHEMERE Gallery, HONG KONG (permanent artist)
ART and COLLECTION Gallery, Colmar, FRANCE (permanent artist)
2016
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
ART and THE Gallery, Granville, FRANCE
ROUGE EPHEMERE Gallery, HONG KONG (permanent artist)
ART and COLLECTION Gallery, Colmar, FRANCE (permanent artist
2015
Asian Contemporary Art show–HONG KONG with ROUGE EPHEMERE Gallery,
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
ART and COLLECTION Gallery, Colmar, FRANCE (permanent artist)
ROUGE EPHEMERE Gallery, HONG KONG (permanent artist)
2014
AFFORDABLE ART HONG KONG exhibition with ROUGE EPHEMERE Gallery,
HELVETIE Hotel, SWITZERLAND with the Plexus Gallery
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE(permanent artist)
Les ARTS en LOZERE Gallery, La Canbourgue, FRANCE
ASIAN CONTEMPORY ART SHOW, HONG-KONG
Les JARDINS de GAÏA, Wittisheim, FRANCE
PLEXUS Gallery, Montreux,SWITZERLAND (permanent artist)
ART and COLLECTION gallery, Colmar, FRANCE (permanent artist)
ROUGE EPHEMERE Gallery,HONG KONG (permanent artist)
2013
ROUGE EPHEMERE Gallery, HONG-KONG (permanent artist)
PLEXUS Gallery, Montreux and Fribourg, SWITZERLAND (permanent artist)
ART and COLLECTION Gallery, Colmar, FRANCE (permanent artist)
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny(permanent artist)
2012
Plexus Gallery, Montreux and Fribourg, SWITZERLAND (permanent artist)
The 111 des Arts, Lyon and Toulouse, FRANCE
Passeart Gallery, Troyes, FRANCE
Rudolfv Gallery, Amsterdam, HOLLANDE
Quouarts Culture House, SWITZERLAND, with the Plexus Gallery
Art and Collection Gallery, Colmar, FRANCE
En apArthé Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
ESPACE 87 Gallery, Giverny, FRANCE (permanent artist)
Be-Espace Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
Bastille Art Fair, Paris, FRANCE
2011
Plexus Gallery, Montreux and Fribourg, SWITZERLAND (permanent artist)
MAG Montreux Art Gallery, SWITZERLAND with the Plexus gallery
111 des Arts, Lyon, FRANCE
Be-Espace Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
Art and Collection Gallery, Colmar, FRANCE
Bastille Art Fair, Paris, FRANCE
2010
Salon de Chartres, Collegiate Church of St André de Chartres, FRANCE
Espace Beaurepaire, Paris with the Matthieu Dubuc Gallery, FRANCE
Arcima Gallery, Place aux Artistes Salon, Grenelle Market and Place Monge Market,
Paris, FRANCE
Be-Espace Gallery, Paris MAG Montreux Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Fair,
SWITZERLAND
Matthieu Dubuc Gallery, Rueil-Malmaison, FRANCE (permanent artist)
Ici-Combray Gallery, Illiers-Combray, FRANCE (permanent artist)
Bastille Art Fair, Paris, FRANCE
2009
Ici-Combray Gallery, Illiers-Combray, FRANCE
Gallery 60, Giverny, FRANCE
Monet-Marmottan Garden Museum, Kitagawa JAPAN
Be-Espace Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
Matthieu Dubuc Gallery, Rueil-Malmaison, FRANCE
Drouot Auction: Young creation Contemporary, FRANCE
111 des Arts, Paris, FRANCE
Bastille Art Fair, Paris, FRANCE
2008
Matthieu Dubuc Gallery, Rueil-Malmaison, FRANCE
Art shopping, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FRANCE
Be-Espace Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
Raphaël Gallery, Carré des Antiquaires, Versailles, FRANCE
Les Récréateurs Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
La P’Art Belle Gallery, Dinard, FRANCE
Bastille Art Fair, Paris, FRANCE
2007
Gallery 60, Giverny, FRANCE