ART TROPE AGENCY PRESENTS ITS SIX ARTISTS!
Virginie Tison sees her collaboration with the Gallery’s Artists as a professional marriage. Positive management based on mutual goodwill and support, creativity and rigor is the foundation of her approach to work and training. Launching the Agency allows us to take our collaboration with our Artists to a new level.
We are delighted to be working more closely with the six Artists of the Agency:
Antoine Buttafoghi – Photographer
Winner of international competitions and twice finalist of the prestigious Master Hasselblad competition in 2012 and 2018, Antoine Buttafoghi has exhibited his work in France, Luxembourg, Japan, Hungary, the United Kingdom, India, Italy, Russia and Brazil. Consultant, as well as Professor at the University of Corsica Pascale Paoli and at the European School of Internet Professions, he has been teaching photography and associated techniques for over 20 years. He has worked regularly with the magazine “Création Numérique” as a specialized journalist.
Antoine Buttafoghi’s photographs are impeccably composed around the human form in all its diversity, connected with its environment or not, and he plays with colour contrasts through a graphic style. Highly restrained, his photos depict a “unique” human being who seems lost in the vastness of the world; a testimony to an aesthetic consent to our attachment to the earthly, the passage of time and the singularity of the Human Being at the heart of the world. The artist captures the ephemeral with a perfect mastery of harmony, in the search for a certain equilibrium, his own included.
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Barbara Christol – Painter
From an early age, Barbara Christol grew up in the world of art and had a passion for drawing.Barbara studied at the Beaux-Arts de Nîmes and later attended several painters’ workshops to perfect her techniques. The Painter understands that she must deepen her knowledge in Art History and joins the prestigious University La Sorbonne in Paris up to the Doctorate in order to elaborate her own plastic and aesthetic research. Barbara Christol’s pictorial work has become unique over the years as she has developed a plastic and aesthetic practice revolving around balls of wool.The artist creates series of ephemeral weavings that she exhibits in institutional places, in nature, or private spaces. The thread is always there, in her paintings, either physically or with the omnipresent use of the line. Figuration and abstraction are interwoven around favorite themes: space and play. Geometric figures infused with poetry move into landscapes, mountains, architectures, all underpinned by the structural lines that act as threads in the compositions. Barbara Christol’s works are regularly exhibited and are part of private collections in France and the United States.
Barbara Christol considers creation as a labyrinth, where the artist reaches the crossroads through trial and error, chance and repetition, while maintaining a common thread. Very concerned by the artisanal nature of her work, the painter fluctuates between figuration and abstraction.The line is omnipresent in her works as it is for her the bridge between both, the common thread. Barbara mixes mostly classical and traditional techniques to match with more contemporary ones. Barbara Christol weaves and unweaves a work whose subjects intertwine indefinitely in games of full, empty and untied. The Painter offers architectural universes highlighting an optimistic perspective of the world, where the place of Barbara Christol and her gesture act as a revelator.
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Hélène Hubert – Photographer
Freelance photographer and author, Hélène Hubert studied Fine Art photography in Maine, USA in the early 1980s at the Art Institute of Boston. This is how the artist discovered Ansel Adams Zone-System and implemented it to her photographic practice and work philosophy. As early as 1998, the photographer fitted her view-camera with digital backs replacing the 4”x5” analogic film holder. Hélène Hubert has been using digital cameras ever since, positioning digital photography as a mirror of all the energies that circulate beyond human vision. Her skill for highlighting everyday objects has asserted itself over the years: silhouettes, shadows and allusions of presence suggest the existence of parallel worlds where distortion, dreamlike and dual meaning prevail. At the heart of Hélène Hubert’s work, the object becomes a subject gifted with a life of its own, permeable to sight. Freed from the constraints of documenting reality, the photographer is caught by the need to freeze impermanence, in all passageways or moments of transition, to experiment and give us the opportunity to see the multiple parallel worlds that we cross. Her works are already part of art collections in Europe and the United States.
The common – or better said, golden – thread of Hélène Hubert’s photographic work is the energy that animates still lives. She captures singular light impressions which disclose this blurred zone between the object, its reflection and what it represents. The artist searches all the spaces in which the objective reality reveals a secret which might not appear at first sight. Above all, it is the vibration fields of an object and / or a situation that invites the photographer to trigger her artistic sense through a lightning flash, an impulse or an emotion. Tuned up to this frequency in her now virtual darkroom, Hélène Hubert dusts her photographic file with the tip of her stylus bringing out the infinitely small, the infinitely visible, “the one visible “- literally – « l’un visible » as defined by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan on the existence of three levels, the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary. Her images, reveal the evanescent manifestations of the internal reality of her subjects, focusing to render this perceptive intensity, all connected within the same material: life.
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Bruno Palisson – Photographer
It was with a ‘Goldy’ Box camera, a gift from his father, that Bruno Palisson took his first photographs at the age of 10. Throughout his adolescence, he asserted himself through this medium, setting up a freelance practice at the age of 17. Three years later he began a professional career as an architectural photographer, working for agencies and magazines. At the same time, he was studying for a degree in architecture and in 1994, with his colleague Jean-Luc Calligaro, he founded the architecture agency Atelier PO & PO in Paris. In 1997 he represented the company Polaroïd in France for the brand’s 50th anniversary and in 1999, he co-directed an artistic campaign for the candy brand Cachous Lajaunie as part of a collective. In 1999, he took part in the Festival d’Art sans Fin in Bern, and this work was presented in the program Tracks on Arte. The artworks of Bruno Palisson, Photographer and Architect, are frequently shown and are part of Private Collections. The Artist’s work is particularly selected by various Photography Festivals such as “Les Voies Off” of Les Rencontres Internationales d’Arles (2019), the “Festival les Focales du Pays d’Auge” of Honfleur (2020), the “Surrealist Festival” of Fréjus (2021), the “Présence(s) Photographie Festival” of Montélimar (2022); and are published in professional magazines, such as L’Œil de la Photographie, Fisheye and Réponses Photo. Since 2021, Bruno Palisson is represented by Art Trope Gallery and has shown his work at Arles Expositions during Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, at the ST-ART Contemporary Art Fair in Strasbourg and at the VOLTA Contemporary Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland.
© Bruno Palissson
© Bruno Palissson
Beyond the great question of the “Origin of life” and its mystery, the natural structure, matters, forms and hues of nature are the basis of Bruno Palisson‘s inspiration. The subjects often impose themselves on the Photographer as evidence after a long time of coexistence, revealed by emotion, feelings, sensations… This is how his travel photographs are his own story and his occasionally dreamy thoughts. These are explorations of before, during and after. They are also doubts and hesitations, moments and paths that must be tried, attempted, since “as we reveal ourselves, we are never wrong”. The works are a means to transport the Artist’s memory, and are in perpetual motion. Bruno Palisson tells a photographic story that he piles up and superimposes, overlays or transparence as a life that unfolds, and piles up with intensity of this unspeakable mixture of past, present and future. Bruno Palisson’s photographs are not recognisable landscapes or clearly identifiable objects, but moments and/or suggested thoughts, which he recommends to browser and share.The artist invites us on a photographic journey of his imagination and his memories, like moments in suspension.
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Evelyne Puech – Painter
Coming from a family of artists, Evelyne Puech practiced the reverse glass painting technique with her mother from the age of six. She naturally committed to the School of Decorative Arts’ path in Geneva, then obtained a diploma of Artistic Maturity in the Visual Arts section to finish with the University of Geneva in the field of psychology and psychotherapy at the IRAT Institute in Lyon. Evelyne Puech is driven by the need to build and express a universe in which she highlights a form of beauty and poetry and to share it. This choice of technique and material has always been the basis of the plastic and aesthetic research of the artist, particularly for reasons of transparency, superimpositions and inversions. The reference artists who inspire her artistic universe are figures of lyrical, mystical or figurative abstraction such as Chu Teh Chu, Zao Wu Ki, Zaoming Wu or even Turner, Brüggel et Bosh.
Evelyne Puech explores reverse glass painting. This technique was widely used for sacral paintings until the Renaissance. It also corroborates the content and meaning of the work of the painter who likes to think upside down, to see things from the other side. It promotes the mobility of her mind. Evelyne Puech’s approach constitutes both a movement towards authenticity and an awareness of the irreversible. The accuracy of the gesture takes precedence since what is painted once cannot be touched up again. By leaving an imprint, that of the initial trace, the artist has personally reappropriated this technique with a contemporary support replacing glass by alternating vaporous textures to intensify the material. Evelyne Puech offers in all of her work a symbolic connotation, a universe of transparence and materials, a present including a past through subjects that each person can cross. Her works are generally made up of three or four plexiglas spaced out in order to bring a third dimension, which strongly distinguishes her art.
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Florence Sartori – Sculptor
Florence Sartori entered the art world at a very young age due to a favorable environment for an artistic career. After attending the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, she continued to work with performers, musicians, dancers, actors, and artists. The fusion of all these artistic worlds driven by creativity then led to the desire to work with matter and create a new tool of expression through sculpture. Strongly inspired by movements of the body during a dance, Florence Sartori began her studies and work on the dynamics of the female body in motion, attending various sculpture workshops and using her long observation of dancers as her foundation. Along with terracotta, she creates with melting material – bronze -, cultivating the concept of the original element inherent in terracotta. This explains why her bronzes are often unique pieces in different formats. Her work is regularly exhibited at various galleries in France, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Florence Sartori has placed Woman at the center of her aesthetic universe. Her resolutely life-oriented approach arouses emotion through timeless female figures. Whether a warrior, fulfilled, fragile or assertive, Woman is both singular and plural for Florence Sartori. She focuses her attention on the arching, tensing, stretching, and ease of the female body, which can assume a balanced, symmetrical, sensual, and sometimes geometric form. She seeks to enhance the dynamics, energy, and vitality of the body in motion and signify its freedom, capturing a natural attitude of movement in an instant, like a snapshot, and restoring its line. This original line is purified and stylized to seize the essence of the body of Woman, in its most universal aspects: curves and voluptuousness, flexibility and sensuality, balance in space, tensing of the body, suspended movement, swaying hips or aerial arabesque. These virginal-looking women, fully feminine and free, never really reveal themselves. Clothed simply with their patina, they tell a story of Woman.
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