Claude Soutif

Lives and works near Paris.
Visual artist: painting, photography and sculpture are my preferred fields, which have led me to present my work in solo and group exhibitions since 1980.
As an abstract painter, my work is part of the so-called Abstract Expressionism movement, which came to prominence in the 1960s and whose leading figures remain Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The pictorial concept consists in expressing a truth buried deep within oneself, emphasizing the physical act of painting, the gesture at the heart of the work. Painting thus becomes the search for the emergence of what we have experienced, of what has constituted us, of what enables us to live.
As for my other passion, photography, it consists in nourishing my painter's imagination by capturing, through travels and encounters, this material that will inscribe itself in my memory, transform itself, amalgamate with other traces of the past, and one fine day be reborn by chance in a painting.
This constant to-and-fro between painting and photography is the very purpose of my work as a visual artist.

Ingénieur informaticien et artiste autodidacte

Depuis 1980, j'expose personnellement ou en groupe dans de nombreux lieux et galeries sur l'ensemble de la France

1984: exposition de groupe au château de Gilly - Clos Vougeot
Maison de la Culture de Grenoble
Centre de recherches Renault Rueil
1988: exposition de groupe théâtre des Ateliers Lyon

1989: exposition de groupe Galerie la Source Dijon

1997: exposition de Claude Soutif et Francine Jardon Dijon

1999: premier reportage photographique sur Cuba

2000: exposition personnelle Galerie S2Com Paris

2003: deuxième reportage photographique sur Cuba
édition du portfolio "Lagrimas Negras"
2004: reportage photographique sur la vallée du Gange Inde

2005: exposition personnelle "LUMIERE - lumières"
installation lumineuse Galerie OliverHairLine Paris

2006: exposition photographique personnelle "au fil du Gange"
Galerie Bastille Paris

2007: exposition photographique personnelle "INDE" Domaine
de Quincampoix Les Molières

2008: exposition personnelle "Lumière Couleur Ténèbres"
deux installations lumineuses Galerie Epatante Joigny

2010: exposition de groupe photographie Artatou Avallon

2011: exposition de groupe - installation lumineuse
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