Karima Duchamp: France
Born in France, Karima Duchamp holds a Master of Fine Arts with Honors, (DNSEP), received from "Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts", Besançon, France. She is an award-winning artist who has had international success, with her works being exhibited at different locations across the globe, to name a few; Taiwan, Japan, USA, Brussels, France and Switzerland.
Karima Duchamp’s practice is intuitive: with clay, on paper or free canvas, the artist manipulates, cowardly grip, gets rid of an academic practice of sculpture and drawing. She deploys landscapes intertwined with primitive architectures and ghostly bodies, so light that they seem ready to fly, to disappear.
The last directions taken by the artist: frontality, chromatic intensification, post-expressionist power confirm the jamming of the tracks, an aesthetic experience of materials and forms that overlap or hybridize themselves.
Karima Duchamp’s practice is intuitive: with clay, on paper or free canvas, the artist manipulates, cowardly grip, gets rid of an academic practice of sculpture and drawing. She deploys landscapes intertwined with primitive architectures and ghostly bodies, so light that they seem ready to fly, to disappear.
The last directions taken by the artist: frontality, chromatic intensification, post-expressionist power confirm the jamming of the tracks, an aesthetic experience of materials and forms that overlap or hybridize themselves.
In her corpus of sculptures, Karima Duchamp uses cut-out, fragmented slabs of clay erected in volume like crumpled origami sheets. The sculptures seem crystallized; they are like artefacts or fossils of a story, witnessing a moment and calling for nostalgia. Prematurely aged surfaces, these structures remain open in the upper part and leave the possibility to explore their interior.
The surfaces white-washed with engobe, as with lime, the reliefs are thus revealed. On the outer surfaces, the engobes blue, white and black offer a dullness that contrast with the use of gold, both material and light, symbol, it is the thread of the story. The motifs spread on the surfaces and come to embrace the anatomy of the sculpture, remodel and magnify it. Golden lines are lines of tension, allowing the form not to be defragmented; the gold vein infuses a presence.
The title of the work, Golden Rocks is a formal reference to the Burmese golden rock: it evokes the symbolism of gold present throughout the history of sacred art; a new geography that invites the viewer through silent spaces.
The surfaces white-washed with engobe, as with lime, the reliefs are thus revealed. On the outer surfaces, the engobes blue, white and black offer a dullness that contrast with the use of gold, both material and light, symbol, it is the thread of the story. The motifs spread on the surfaces and come to embrace the anatomy of the sculpture, remodel and magnify it. Golden lines are lines of tension, allowing the form not to be defragmented; the gold vein infuses a presence.
The title of the work, Golden Rocks is a formal reference to the Burmese golden rock: it evokes the symbolism of gold present throughout the history of sacred art; a new geography that invites the viewer through silent spaces.
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FRONTOFBICYCLE EXHIBITIONS 2022
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EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts with Honors, (DNSEP), Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France One-year study in Ceramics, Maison de la Céramique, Mulhouse, France SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 - « what you see, you don’t see », Séries Rares Gallery, Geneva 2016 - « traumbilder », Ceramic Museum, Staufen, Germany 2015 - « the visible and the invisible », Art and History Museum, Oldenburg, Germany 2013 - « nue » AccroTerre Gallery, Paris 2012 - « carte blanche », Contemporary Ceramic Centre La Borne, France SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 - STAR'T Contemporay Art Fair, Strasbourg, with JustBee Gallery 2021 - frontofbicycle Gallery - #ME, Basel, Switzerland 2021 - Valcke Art Gallery, Ghent, Belgium 2020 - International Biennale of Ceramics, Sèvres, France 2020 - 'Dream Big III', group exhibition of drawings, Art Zone 42 Gallery, Athens, Greece 2020 - Collective ceramic exhibition, Le Couvent, 89520 Treigny, France 2020 - COLLECTIBLE, Design Fair, Spazio Nobile Gallery, Brussels 2020 - PARIS DESIGN WEEK "jeux géométriques" with Collection Gallery, Paris 2020 - Séries Rares Gallery “Les Femmes 100 têtes”, drawing exhibition, Carouge, Switzerland 2019 - Faces, residency show at Neumunster Kunstlerhaus, Germany 2019 - Le Grand Anniversaire, volet II, collective exhibition, Terra Viva Gallery, St 2019 - Quentin la Poterie Emergences 1, collective exhibition, Robet Dantec gallery, Belfort 2019 - Les journées de la Céramique in Freiburg, Germany 2018 - International Biennale of Ceramics, Sèvres 2018 - Collective show "faire surface", Maison de la Céramique, Dieulefit 2018 - Artist In Residence Programme and exhibition, Studio Kura, Kyushu, Japan 2018 - Collective show, International Academy of Ceramics, Yingge Museum, 2018 - Taipei City, Taiwan Salon Résonances, Strasbourg 2018 - The SALON ART+DESIGN, with Moderne Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2018 - DESIGN MIAMI, with Moderne Gallery, Miami, USA 2017 - Contemporary Art Space, Gowiller, France 2017 - The SALON ART+DESIGN, with Moderne Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, 2017 - New York DESIGN MIAMI, with Moderne Gallery, Miami 2016 - “Imago”, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany 2016 - DESIGN MIAMI/BASEL, Moderne Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 2016 - « Les Journées de la Céramique », Saint Sulpice, Paris 2016 - The SALON ART + DESIGN, with Moderne Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, 2016 - New York DESIGN MIAMI, with Moderne Gallery, Miami 2015 - Handwerk Gallery, Munich, Germany 2015 - « Paysages », Galerie du Don, Le Fel, France 2015 - « Ashes to ashes », The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA 2015 - Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris 2014 - Collection Gallery, Paris 2014 - « Fragile », Heubar Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Tao Art Gallery, Shanghai, China 2013 - Accro Terre Gallery, Paris 2013 - Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany 2013 - Terra Viva Gallery, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France 2012 - « Les Journées de la Céramique », Paris Contemporary Art Space Chanot, Clamart, Paris 2011 - « Les Journées de la Céramique », Paris Triennale of Ceramics, Spiez, Switzerland 2010 - Biennale of Andenne, Belgium 2010 - International Ceramic Festival, St Quentin la Poterie, France 2010 - Circuits céramiques, Goutte de terre Gallery, Paris 2010 - Keramisto, International Ceramics Fair, Milsbeek, Netherlands 2010 - Céramique 14, Paris 2010 - Médiart Gallery, Paris 2009 - European young Ceramics contest, St. Quentin la Poterie, France 2009 - Céramique 14, Paris HONORS AND AWARDS 2021 Selected for International Biennal of artistic ceramics of Aveiro, Museum of Aveiro / Santa Joana, Portugal 2017 - Member of the International Academy of Ceramics 2017 - Selected to International Biennal of Ceramics El Vendrell, Spain 2014 - 1st Prize International Keramiktage Contest, Oldenburg, Germany 2013 - Selected to International Competition «The Figure/Sculpture in Ceramics», Keramikmseum Westerwald, Germany 2010 - 1st Prize Biennal of Ceramics of Andenne (market), Belgium 2009 - 2nd Prize European Ceramic Competition, European Festival of Ceramic Art, St Quentin la Poterie, France 2000 - Jury Prize, painting contest, Salon des 40, Saint-Louis, France COLLECTIONS 2018 - Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taipei, Taïwan 2017 - Musée Ariana Collection, Genève 2016 - Four drawings in the collection « Fonds dess(e)ins », Les Traces Habiles, Paris 2016 - Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, USA 2016 - Giroussens Town collection, France 2015 - The Clay Studio collection, Philadelphia, USA 2013 - Shigaraki Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES 2019 - Ceramic Artist exchange, Neumünster, Germany 2018 - Artist In Residence Programme, Studio Kura, Kyushu, Japan 2015 - Guest Artist invited at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA 2014 - Study visits in ceramics, Madrid, Spain 2013 - Artistic residency, Shigaraki, Japan 2013 - Master class in ceramics, Kilkenny, Ireland |