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BARBARA CHRISTOL 

Olé! Magazine, November 2023 edition

Barbara Christol is an artist from Nîmes whose drawings illuminated the Exhibition section of Olé! Magazine a few years ago. Today, she exhibits internationally, and her works are included in private collections in Europe, England, and the United States. Her next exhibition will take place in Paris in January at the Grande Halle de La Villette for the 120th anniversary of the Salon d’Automne.

Immersed in art since childhood, she is a jack-of-all-trades, who after trying her hand at music and dance, definitively chose drawing and painting. Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, then in Arts and Sciences of Art (Plastic Arts option) at the Sorbonne, her practice is polymorphic, drawing, painting, illustration, weaving and photography. Her numerous travels, notably in South America, have led her to develop nomadic creation systems that can adapt to the constraints of her travels, mainly with wool, sketchbooks and a camera. Thus, the thread is always present in her paintings, either physically or through the omnipresent use of the line. Passionate about geometry, the artist weaves and unweaves a work whose subjects intertwine indefinitely in games of solids, voids and thin lines. Very attached to the artisanal aspect of her work, Barbara vacillates between figuration and abstraction, using mainly classical and traditional techniques that she mixes and declines with more contemporary techniques. She offers architectural universes emphasizing an optimistic perspective of the world, where the place of the Painter and his gesture act as a revealer. The geometric figures imbued with poetry move in landscapes, in mountains, in architectures, all underpinned by the lines of constructions which act as threads in her compositions.

To discover the works of Barbara Christol, head to Nîmes, 9 rue de St Gilles where her studio can be visited by appointment.

Evelyne Virmont

Leaving Siena, © Barbara Christol 2023

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