Dominique Ganiage

Dominique Ganiage is a french artist. She lives and works in Paris, but has traveled a lot and spent few years in Africa.
Dominique Ganiage's approach stems from a need: to sculpt by creating from nothing.

Clay is her preferred material, both for this reason and for its plasticity, its direct connection to the earth and its powerful forces, its essential nature, and its Promethean dimension.
Her work is marked by the enduring trace of the work, the energy of the initial creative impulse, and the interplay of shadow and light. It refuses to be smooth, reflecting a world that is anything but, harsh yet also human.
It belongs to the modernist tradition, between expressionism and minimalism, with an organic dimension that resonates with the worlds of Bourdelle and Ousmane Saw.
It is driven by a desire to get to the heart of the matter and to find the profound traits that underpin the work and give it life.
Her work is permeated by a dual tension between strength and sensitivity, power and emotion.
After initially focusing on the body, her practice expanded to include faces and portraits, then landscapes, rocks, and fossils, not to mention a recurring theme of felines.

She leaves the clay raw, sometimes fired at high temperatures, o...

Sciences Po Paris
Ateliers des Arts décoratifs
Student of Véronique Jestin, an Etienne Martin' follower, courses with Philippe Seené

May 26 1-17th Notre dame des artistes gallery Paris
November 25 9th-20th Galerie Thuillier Paris (close to Picasso museum)
October 25 5th-november 2thn salon de Saint Denis salle de la Légion d'honneur,
October 25 10th-12th, Seiziem' art, city hall Paris 16ème
Septembre 25 5th-14th, galerie Notre Dame des artistes, Paris
January 25 24th-26th 2025, art3f, Paris

November 24 25th to 30th, 66th artisitic nude salon, Saint Denis
January24 27th-29th 2023, art3f, Paris
November 23 4th to 15th 2022, 65th artistic nude salon, Saint Denis
November 23 5th to 15 th 2021, 64 th artistic nude salon, Saint Denis
October 23 27th november first 2016, Great contemporary art fair, Bastille Paris
September 18 th 2015 European Heritage Day, Ecole Nationale d'administration
April 30th-May 4th 2015, Great contemporary art fair, Bastille Paris
June 28th 2015, Artists Night;Saint Germain
May first-4th 2014, Great contemporary art fair, Bastille Paris
May first-4th 2013, Great contemporary art fair, Bastille Paris
November 5th-15th 2021 64 ème exhibition of Union des arts plastiques Saint Denis
November 4th-15th 2022 65 ème exhibition of Union des arts plastiques Saint Denis
January 28th-30th Art3f, international contemporary art fair, Paris
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