Christine Guichard

Christine Guichard creates abstract works on paper in which she plays with the paper's luminous whites and intense blacks. She explores materials and shapes, the balance between them, and visible and invisible links.

Christine Guichard is a printmaker and painter who graduated in graphic art from the Académie Charpentier in Paris.
The visual intensity of her prints lies in the strong contrasts she creates between the deep blacks and bright whites of the paper.
She explores the possibilities of printmaking in a highly graphic style, combining shapes and motifs to define a space in balance or movement.
Contrasts are intense and the paper is not simply printed, but sculpted with discreet relief. The addition of these subtle embossments creates a world imbued with poetry.
Christine Guichard's minimalist abstract art
Through her prints and inks, Christine Guichard also explores an abstract minimalist aesthetic reminiscent of Japanese culture, a constant search between full and empty. The empty spaces magnify the composition of large black shapes, while the hollows of the embossing punctuate the works with their delicacy. These little worlds in relief gradually reveal themselves under the effect of low-angled light, and these works que...

*__Institute of fine art, specializing studies of :
--> Screen printing (2 years)
--> Woodcut ( 3 years)
--> Lithography (1 year)
*__Graphic arts diploma.Graphic arts studies : Académie Charpentier. French Institute of fine art

Artworks in collections: Légal deposit at the French National library/ Etampes’s collection of contemporary art_France / Florean museum’s collection_Romania / Claudio Leon Sempere’s collection_Argentina

Exhibitions: Le cube vernet gallery, Invited by the biennial event of engraving of the douro_Portugual / Print of Cadaques _Spain / Int. Triennial of prints_Chamalières_France / Traveling exhibition to Takanabe Museum " kiwa _Austria / Lettres et images - Gallery Vivienne_Artist's Book printed in manual typography _France / La Galerie Parisienne_Paris / The 5th kiwa exhibition - Kyoto city museum _Japan / Museum alte bischofsburg_Wittstock _Germany / Gallery Akie Arichi - Pages 8 - Contemporary bibliography_France / Print biennial – albi "_"Graver maintenant"_"Trace".../Intergrabado_Uruguay /
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