Her artistic career began in 1974 with her participation in the 25th Salon de la jeune Peinture in Paris. The painter Véronique Bigo was born in Lille in 1946. In 1970, after studying at the Beaux Arts in her native city, she decided to leave for Rome where she lived until 1986. It was there that the artist laid the foundations of her painting; the palette is black - a few rare traces of pink, green or yellow are sometimes superimposed - and the canvas is raw linen. In broad terms, his work...

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  Her artistic career began in 1974 with her participation in the 25th Salon de la jeune Peinture in Paris. The painter Véronique Bigo was born in Lille in 1946. In 1970, after studying at the Beaux Arts in her native city, she decided to leave for Rome where she lived until 1986. It was there that the artist laid the foundations of her painting; the palette is black - a few rare traces of pink, green or yellow are sometimes superimposed - and the canvas is raw linen. In broad terms, his work embraces the path of figurative art, privileging the object, whatever it may be, according to the series. These are the themes that predominate in Véronique Bigo's painting and that provide the inspiration for the subjects she paints; these themes will evolve over the years. Inspired by Roman and Egyptian ruins, it will be antiquity from 1975 to 1986, with pieces of statues, obelisks, architectural details. Between 1986 and 2000, dividing her time between Paris and Marseille, Véronique Bigo was inspired by objects, the creation of designers, everyday objects, fashion; she painted in these years series on chairs, lamps, bags, . . . Leaving Paris for the south of France and Marseille, where she still lives and works today, her inspiration turns to the organic world, nature (flowers, bulbs), the earth, bodies - especially mouths. Since the early 2000s, the artist has been creating real journeys between reality and imagination, inspired not only by symbolic objects, but also by places, characters and destinies.
  With a sure and determined brushstroke, Véronique Bigo gives shape to the object, then infuses it with particularly contrasting plays of shadows with the help of tiny spots that give it a convincing materiality. Thus, the relationship between the eye of the observer and the canvas is all the more upset, especially since the formats can be very large, imposing by their size a new look that implies a new consideration of the object and its experience.Her main activity remains painting, but Véronique Bigo is nevertheless very active on other fronts. Since 1980, she has collaborated on numerous architectural projects and layouts such as offices, factories, airports or various apartments. Thus, she is brought to create furniture or decorative objects. The artist has also taught at the schools of architecture in Saint-Etienne and Toulouse, and at the School of Architecture in Paris La Vilette in Plastic and Visual Arts (representations of architecture).Véronique Bigo has been exhibiting regularly for many years, both solo and group exhibitions. Among these, we note the retrospective exhibition "Peinture Méta-physique : histoire de taches" at the Villa Tamaris in La Seyne-sur-Mer in 2011, but also these nine different "Parcours" that since 1998 and the first organized at the Cultural Center of the City of Athens ("20 lieux - 20 métaphores"), have been shown at the Musée des granges de Port-Royal (2002), the Villa Tamaris in La Seyne-sur-Mer (2006), the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice (2008, three times in 2009), the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille ("Histoires d'eaux" in 2017-2018) and the six museums of Aix-en-Provence.
  In addition, many institutions have acquired works by the artist (the Georges Pompidou National Center, the Franklin Furnace Foundation in New York, the Musée de la Poste, the Musée d'Art Sacré d'Evry, the Assemblée Nationale, etc.).Throughout her work, Véronique Bigo, an atypical and powerful artist, has developed a personal grammar based on her love of art! Committed artist, she takes the decision to "say" through modernity what the future carries in it.
  
  

  

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