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Biography
Annick Gendron was a French abstract painter, (?? Châtin, Nièvre - 22 October 2008 Saint-Cloud).
Art
In the 1970s Gendron’s innovative way of using and manipulating industrial material and tools as plastic, glass, hydraulics press and centrifuges. Gendron’s painting and thought process has always revolved around using often surprising materials plexiglas, fossils, toy soldier, glitters, sponges. Uncommon themes such as the limits to scientific knowledge and the Pan-European identity are central to her work.
Annick Gendron has been painting and exhibiting since 1965. Her work has been shown at the Raymond Duncan Gallery, at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, at the Salon des Indépendants and Surindependant at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at the Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais and the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
Spin painting
At the end of the 1960s she was one of the first artist to use centrifugal force to produce large-sized artworks. Inspired by children's games : spin art, spin painting, her goal was to transcend this modest use to get the most spectacular effects from it. Damien Hirst got the same idea in the 1990s, as her he transcends the original practice, by the use of more spectacular materials, sizes, shapes, and skill improvement.
Notes and references
- Galerie des arts (magazine) 1970
- L'Amateur d'Art (magazine) N° 525 - 18 October 1973