![]() ![]() Verdier’s works have been widely exhibited in Europe and Asia including the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, France Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Germany Erasmus Museum, Belgium Centre Pompidou Metz, France and recently at Pinakothek der Modern, Munich, Germany. She spent 10 years as an apprentice to a Chinese master before returning to France. ![]() In 1984, she went to the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China, to study traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. The process is both meditative and performative as Verdier moves with the brush, she responds to the forces around her, transmitting these universal truths and energy into her work at the point of equilibrium.īorn in Paris in 1962, Verdier graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Toulouse in 1983 while studying Chinese at the Institut des Langues et Civilisation Orientales in Paris. Working standing up, Verdier uses a giant suspended animal hair brush, not unlike the calligrapher’s vertical brush that links heaven and earth, to create her works. Having spent 10 years studying traditional ink painting under a Chinese master in Chongqing, China, Verdier has since created an iconic pictorial language that merges these traditional painting techniques with influences from Western art history. Fabienne Verdier is an internationally celebrated artist who bridges the dialogue between Eastern and Western artistic traditions, being one of the very few Western artists to have mastered traditional Chinese ink painting.
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