Discover the contemporary work of GITE iEMFRé

1980 - Nancy School of Fine Arts

1992-1996

- Writing and illustration of children's books:

Publisher Fleurus Presse – Collection Je lis déjà: «  The two cousins", "The swimming pool monster", "The medical visit", "Antoine likes to read"

1998-2010

- Production of illustrations for educational materials for children's learning:

Editions du Grand Cerf - Editions Cogneaux Atelier de l'oiseau magique

Series of slides "Clotilde à the farm ", “Clotilde does her circus”, “A year with Clotilde”, “To make it pretty”

Exhibitions

2011 – Galerie d’Art du Pharos Marseille –

2012 – Salon Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam – Kunsthuis Leiden, Breda, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

2013 – Galerie d’art Sylvie Platini – Veyrier du Lac – Colors Exhibition

2013 – Schortgen Gallery – Luxembourg

2013 – Raugraff Gallery – Nancy

2013 – Imagine Gallery – Bordeaux

2013 – Art Symbol Gallery - Paris

2013 – Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam – Kunsthuis Leiden, Breda, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

2014 – Affordable Art Fair Brussels – Galerie du Taureau Laguiole

2014 – Affordable Art Fair Maastricht – Kunsthuis Leiden, Breda, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

2014 – Fardel Gallery – Le Touquet

2014 – Galerie Léadouze - Paris

2014 – Salon Art3F Montpellier – Body and Soul Gallery of Nîmes

2014 - Salon Art3F Mulhouse – Body and Soul Gallery of Nîmes

2015 – Salon Art’ INNSBRUCK – Galerie Augustin Wien Innsbruck (Austria)

2015 - Salon Art3F Nantes – Body and Soul Gallery in Nîmes

2015 - Art3F Salon Lyon – Sylvie Platini Gallery Lyon

2015 – Art Life Gallery – St Raphaël

2015 – Renc’Art Gémenos Salon

2015 - Sylvie Platini Art Gallery – Veyrier du Lac

2015 - Art3F Salon Paris – Body and Soul Gallery in Nîmes

2015 - Art3G Salon Bordeaux – Art’Axe Roanne Gallery

2015 - Art3F Salon Nice – Galerie Joel Guyot St Paul de Vence

2015 – Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam – Kunsthuis Leiden Amsterdam (Netherlands)

2015 – WIK&AM Fair Wien – Galerie Augustin Wien-Innsbruck (Austria)

2016 - Galerie Art’Axe – Roanne

2016 - Sylvie Platini art gallery – Lyon

2016 – Art & emotion – Lausanne (Switzerland)

2016 – Salon Art’ INNSBRUCK – Galerie Augustin Wien Innsbruck (Austria)

2016 - Salon Art3F Nantes – Galerie Art’Axe Roanne

2016 - Salon Art3F Paris – Galerie Art’Axe Roanne

2016 - Salon Art3F Metz – Galerie Art’Axe Roanne

2016 – Animals Art Style Paris – The parade jojos

2017 - Salon Art3F Paris – Galerie Deza Roanne

2017 – Gallery 21 - Tours

2018 – LNG Gallery – St Paul de Vence

2019 – Expo le siècle Soulages – Rodez

2019 – Salon Art Bodensee – Galerie Augustin Wien-Innsbruck (Austria)

2019 – Expo Bal des créateurs - Rodez

2020 – Galerie Sacchetti Ascona (Switzerland) – Expo Dog’s Paradise

2022 – Galerie Beshop - Rodez

Competition

2013 – 14th International Competition of Carouge (Geneva) - Theme: the garden gnome-

1st prize of the city of Carouge

2017 – International ceramics competition – Vallauris Institute of Art – Theme: the Vampire

2022 – Luxembourg Art Priz competition – Presentation of a visual and sound installation of 6 ceramic paintings on the theme of shipwrecked exiles.

2023 – Arte Laguna World competition – Same presentation as for Luxembourg Art Priz

https://artelaguna.world/artist/brigitte-iemfre/

 

I like working with clay, it brings me a certain serenity and I feel a real need to express myself through this material. It is a very primitive approach, to bring out a thought, an emotion from a block of clay.

Beyond this daily activity of modeling, I always feel the need to create new things and discover new materials. Every year, according to my inspirations, I participate in competitions or prepare exhibitions on subjects that are close to my heart. heart. It is above all for me a personal approach that allows me to express myself fully and to escape the "artistic straitjacket" of animal sculptures imposed on me by the commercial aspect of the world of galleries and art.

In 2019-2020, I produced an exhibition of several paintings composed of ceramic fish swimming among jellyfish made from plastic bottles. I found myself once again in the marine environment, but this time with the desire to convey a message through an artistic composition. There was a real work of cutting, chiseling, research of colors on the plastic bottles to make it an "artistically" acceptable material, and that it takes its place in the painting to blend into the marine environment. It was not simple bottles among the fish to denounce the pollution of the oceans, but an animal, in this case jellyfish that become plastic. The first message that comes to mind the mind when looking at these paintings was the one we have been hearing for a long time, that in a few years, there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans.

In 2021-2022, a new theme inspired me for a new exhibition. A new subject that resonates with current events. A theme that I had never addressed before: the quest for happiness.

Only, I approached it in a way that may seem contradictory and paradoxical, but which is ultimately only the reverse of the same coin, I started from misfortune, treated through the drama of the many drownings of migrants in search of a better life.

Happiness is felt through scenes of happy moments spent with family.

Sometimes these scenes collide and challenge our reason. The same unity of place and the same unity of time, improbable and yet very real. Art allows this transgression of facts, it authorizes these paradoxes to the limit of indecency.

By creating these sometimes surreal scenes I want to challenge, to disturb. The happiness of some is equal to the misfortune of others.

Through these situations, unbearable for some and idyllic for others, each person feels a strong emotion and it is the coexistence of the two that intensifies it.

Treated the subject of the migration crisis and especially the tragedies it generates requires us to take a kind of distance so as not to fall into despair by opposing it with this quest for happiness that drives every human being.

These two themes mirrored together of course pose the underlying question of altruism and concern for others. Here, by creating these conflicting situations, everyone is challenged in their own contradictions.

There is no moralizing or guilt-inducing intention. The facts are there, they are presented to us with a certain sometimes misplaced irony, they are distorted by the distortion of temporality which is not respected, but they are very real.

The "naive and childish" treatment of ceramics also allows us to distance ourselves from the subject of drama and misfortune. It highlights the different perception of children of serious subjects that affect adults. This view of children is also a view of the future of both our planet and humanity.

I think that art should suggest more than impose, the artist is only a vector or a catalyst, through his own reflections. He gives us something to look at and think.