Nathalie Bibougou

When I paint a picture, I let arise irrational images without giving them any prior explanation, they are necessary to me and I paint them, they are sometimes compulsive visions never premeditated. There in my recent paintings this tendency to irrational, as a double plane of reality and fantasy.
For me, when a painting is completed, the question still remains, what belongs to the real or dream remains undefined. I think that instead of explaining the images, we'd better accept them as they are. There is no unambiguous interpretation. We should be content whether they are loath us, move us, we attract.
Portraits of women and the disturbing presence of animals or plants are for me image associations spontaneous, I do not seek in any way to illustrate this link. If in my paintings, dead animal rubs a female figure, it's probably because for me, life and death are intrinsically linked, but I did put any literary symbol or manufactured. My paintings have an immediate meaning foremost. Deer, dogs, cats, birds ... are visual obsessions that seem to me one way or another and take their place on the canvas. Why, I do not know, maybe this is the instinctive part of the animal that interests me because it does not obey human laws. Sometime...

STUDIES


• C.A.P.E.S Plastic Arts.

• Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Workshop followed: Jean-Michel Alberola.

• Graduated from ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres.


CONTESTS AND GRANTS


• 2007 artist residencies in Rio de Janeiro. Chave Mestra. Brazil.

• 1999 Salon d'Art Contemporain. Price JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET.

• 1998 Artist in residence Perrier-Jouët (Champagne)

Competition organized by the ICC and ENSBA: second prize

• 1995 Exchange student.Collin Lefranc.One semester. (Ministry of Culture)
THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. USA.

• Grant of the City of Paris (Cultural Affairs)

2013 "Toute pure" collective exhibition.
Galery 17, Paris.
Les HIVERNALES 2013. Montreuil.
• 2010 Jeune Création at 104. Paris.Membre Committee 2006, 2010.

Jeune Création 1951 2010. Contemporary Art Space E. Baudouin. Antony.

• 2009 JEUNE CREATION.au 104. Paris.

• 2008 JEUNE CREATION.Hall of the Villette.

ARTISTS TRAIL. Pontault Combault.

• 2007 JEUNE CREATION. Paris.

Personal exposure. Oksana Ignatova gallery. Amsterdam.

Collective exhibition: gallery Universe. Paris.


• 2006 'Rich and Famous', YOUNG CREATION. Paris.

Salon de Montrouge

• 2004 'GEORGE SAND:2004 'Curator: Michèle Natural.
Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux.

'Et la femme créa l'homme'
40 eyes of woomen artists.Paris.

Personal exposure. HEART Gallery, Paris.

ANIMALS AND TERRITORY. Réedition, Castle Tardey.

• ART SENAT: ANIMALS AND TERRITORY. Curator: Marie Salantin.2003.
Orangerie Senate, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.

• 2001 Personal exhibition. Galerie Yves Robert Carat. Paris.

• 1999 Mediterranean Biennale of young painters. U.N.A.M. Nice

Collective E...