Catherine LOPÈS-CURVAL
Catherine Lopès-Curval, born in 1954 inBayeux, graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris.
The artist lives and works in Paris. In 1983, occurred her first personnal exhibition. Many succeeded, mainly with the Galerie Patrice Trigano, which she has been working with for more that fifteen years.
In 1988, she participated in FIAC art fair for the first time. She will return from 1992 to 1995 and in 1999. She also has been exhibited in Art Paris un 2006 and 2007. Her reputation became international, and Catherine Lopès-Curval participated in many art fairs in Bologna, Madrid (ARCO), Geneva… and was exhibitef in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Lisboa, Prague, Knokke, Edimburg, London, Barcelona, Taipei, Shanghai.
In the late 90’s, she systematises the use of the square form in her compositions. With the “Mise aux carreaux” series, this thread becomes recurrent, with hundred of images placed side by side in an orthogonal pattern.
Main personnal exhibitions:
1983 Galerie Moussion, Nantes
1985 Galerie Brigitte Rocourt, Paris
1986 Galerie Moussion, Nantes
1987 Galerie Moussion, Nantes
1988 Galerie Gil Favre, Lyon
FIAC, Galerie Elisabeth Franck, Paris, 1989
Galerie Richard Humphrey, New York
Galerie Meyer-Schwartz, Los Angeles
1990 Galerie Laurens A. Daane Kunsrai, Amsterdam
Galerie Moussion, Paris
1991 Galerie E. Franck, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgique
Galerie Rikugien, Tokyo
1992 Galerie Trintignan, Montpellier
1993 FIAC, Galerie Boulakia, Paris
Galerie Richard Humphrey, New York
Galerie Boulakia, Paris
Galerie Voutat, Genève
1994 FIAC, Galerie Boulakia, Paris
1995 Foire de Bologne, Galerie Boulakia
Foire de Strasbourg, Galerie Boulakia
Galerie Fernando Santos, Porto et Lisbonne
1996 Galerie Boulakia, Paris
Modern Art Gallery Taïshung, Taïwan
1997 Galerie Boulakia, Paris
1998 Galerie Troisième Œil, Bordeaux
Galerie Raymond Banas, Maison de la Culture, Metz
FIAC, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
1999 Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
Galerie le Troisième Œil, Bordeaux
2000 Galerie Trintignan, Montpellier
« Nouvelles, poèmes et fictions » Chapelle de la Persévérance, Tarascon
Espace Riquet, Béziers
2004 Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
2005 Galerie H. Trintignan, Montpellier
2006 Galerie Patrice Trigano : “Alice Underground”
“K comme Kafka”, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac
Modern Art Gallery, Taïwan
Shangaï Art Fair, Modern Art Gallery
2007 Shangaï Art Fair, Modern Art Gallery
Modern Art Gallery, Taïwan
2008 “Métamorphoses d’Alice”, Espace des femmes, Paris
Modern Art Gallery, Taïwan
2009 Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
2010 Galerie H. Trintignan, Montpellier
2011 Galerie des Tuiliers, Lyon
Public collections :
– Centre POMPIDOU
– Fondation COLAS
– Fonds national d’Art contemporain.