Discover the contemporary work of Tania CAGGINI

 Painter and sculptor with a narrative abstraction tendency. Former professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, In addition to her works on canvas, she works on other media: The papers that Tania uses are of all origins, the vast majority artisanal, that is to say made sheet by sheet by hand.

Bathed in waters of ochres, earths, plants, inked, pigmented and crumpled, rubbed and scratched, her papers then experience multiple states: stamping with wax, washes, engravings, applications of various grindings, highlights with black stone, pastel, gold leaf. His sculptures are strongly imbued with his roots and borrow the same chromaticity as his paintings or drawings. Architectural abstract sculptures, "Antiqua Diva" or "Gaëa Nera" they are all polychrome. The "antique goddesses" are the fruit of the artist's work, not on a realistic anthropomorphism, but on the expression, in the kneaded matter, of the symbol of the ancestral and ethnic woman, emerging from unspeakable ages.

Another field of creation: artists' books, after several years creating his "Artists' Notebooks", collections of bamboo drawings, engravings and other line or wax wash techniques. This exploration allowed him to work on works that differ in their intentions and their plastic expressions: from ancient and modern literature in a unique piece or in a limited series, an art object combining the visual arts and literature, the artist's book responds to his desire to create by appropriating, in duo or trio, a common creative field.

Course1959-1962 Introduction to art drawing and painting1961-1968 Classical secondary studies. Awareness of the arts of ancient civilizations

1969-1974 Atelier Met de Penninghen and Jacques d’Andon. Paris National School of Applied Arts and Crafts. Higher School of Arts and Techniques of Paris. Evening School of the City of Paris in academic drawing. Workshop training: ceramics, weaving, fabric painting, photography.

1970-1978 Designer for various French, Italian and American publishers. Professor of Plastic Arts in Architecture and Urban Planning at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. First exhibitions of painting in galleries in France and abroad. international.

Member of ADAGP Represented by ARS (Artists’ Rights Society, USA) and Sodrac (Canada), Member of SEMA (Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Crafts) Member of the French Center for Color, Member of CAAP (Committee of Artists and Authors of Visual Arts). Founder of Creative Reconnection® in the context of art therapy Director of the Carré d’art contemporain center d’Arts Croisés until 2019.

Other: International graduate and practitioner in Dr. Bach's Emotional Therapy

Main recent personal and collective exhibitions - paintings, sculptures, works on paper, artists' books - since 1976, in galleries, spaces, international contemporary art fairs, international exhibitions and studio open days.

Private collections: France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United States, Russia, Canada Australia. Corporate commissions and purchases. Public commissions and acquisitions. Regular reproduction rights assignments

I work mainly in narrative abstraction, abstract structure enameled, according to the theme, with memory fragments and environmental visual references. The support is essential for me and must intimately carry without too much mutilation the materialization of my mental images. And this, whatever the theme addressed. The other materials are chosen in the same spirit and according to the same needs.