SYLVIE FANCHON
Sylvie Fanchon
1953 - 2023 (FR).
Sylvie Fanchon is a landmark in French painting. Born in Nairobi in 1953, she lived and worked in Paris after graduating from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the early 1980s, where she was then head of a workshop from 2001 to 2019.
For 30 years, her painting has remained faithful to radical means and intentions, in accordance with a series of previously fixed rules: two-tone color scheme, flatness of the surface, absence of depth and extremely schematic forms.
The touch, the gesture, the transparency, previously eliminated in favor of quasi-abstract forms drawn from the world around us, return in her latest works, close to the parody, the grotesque.
Decontextualized, these familiar forms are difficult to identify: Sylvie Fanchon thus plays between the unknown and the recognized, between oblivion and the work of recollection, leaving room for a multiplicity of interpretations.
With around 50 artworks in public collections, Sylvie Fanchon’s work is present in more than 15 major French institutions including CNAP, MAC VAL, Pompidou Center, MAM Paris... and eight regional contemporary art funds. Sylvie Fanchon has also benefited from important monographic exhibitions at the CRAC in Sète (2015), the FRAC Franche-Comté (2018), the Espace de l'Art Concret (2019) …