10 Works, Today, January 10th is Lydie Arickx's day, her story, illustrated #010

Lydie Arickx, (French, born 1954)

Untitled, n° 1/1, ca. 2018

Bronze

8 7/10 × 14 3/5 × 7 9/10 in, 22 × 37 × 20 cm

Private collection

Lydie Arickx, (born 10 January 1954) is a French artist. After studying at the School of Graphic Arts (FASE) under Roland Topor from 1974 to 1978, she gave her first solo exhibition in 1979 at the Jean Briance Gallery, with pastel and oil paintings. By the early 1980s, she participated in international events such as the Basel Fair, FIAC and Art Paris. In 1988 she presented her work in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain and the United States.

Lydie Arickx, (French, born 1954)

Femme à la toilette/ Woman at the toilet

Pastel on paper

63.5 x 48.5 cm. (25 x 19.1 in.)

Private collection

“My work calls on my memory, and this memory is mainly a memory of observation and emotion. It could not be abstract because my work needs flesh, blood, soul, everything that can transpire in man; I do not know how to detach myself from it".

Lydie Arickx, (French, born 1954)

Abandon

Oil on canvas

31 x 93 cm. (12.2 x 36.6 in.)

Private collection

Lydie Arickx, (French, born 1954)

Abandon

Gouache on paper

86 x 61 cm. (33.9 x 24 in.)

Private collection

In 1991, Arickx settled in the Landes, where she has worked on larger projects in monumental sculpture. Since 1993, she made a series of monumental frescoes for different sites in France. In 1998, she established the Alex Bianchi les Rencontres du Cadran, which hosted 80 international and emerging artists over five consecutive years. In 1999, for the 800th anniversary of the jurade Saint Emilion, Arickx presented a double solo exhibition on the theme of the crucifixion. More recently she has experimented with a range of materials in her art work, including concrete, emery cloth, wood, fabrics, resins and fibers and bitumen.

Lydie Arickx (French, born 1954)

Jubilation

Oil on paper

35 x 150 cm. (92.5 x 59.1 in.)

Private collection

Lydie Arickx, (French, born 1954)

Souffrance/ Suffering, c. 1988

Oil / mixed media / charcoal on paper 

96 x 150 cm

Private collection

The artist explores, in her obsessive human representations, themes such as the origin of existence, death and its masks, chaos, the raging sea, a supposed metaphor of the mother figure, and the body as a carnal envelope. 

Lydie Arickx (French, born 1954)

Avant la nuit/ Before the night

Oil on paper

120 x 120 cm. (47.2 x 47.2 in.)

Private collection

Lydie Arickx, (French, born 1954)

Après la nuit/ After the night

Oil on paper

120 x 120 cm. (47.2 x 47.2 in.)

Private collection

Metaphysical, spiritual, philosophical, biblical inspirations nourish her creations. This gives her works in addition to her masterful pictorial power, a strength and a real incarnation on her monumental paintings.

Lydie Arickx (French, born 1954)

La genèse du monde/ The genesis of the world

Mixed Media on Paper

130 x 92 cm. (51.2 x 36.2 in.)

Private collection

Lydie Arickx is often reffered to as an expressionist. Her work mistreats the face, twists the material and accounts for the violence of the world. But her constant search for new materials and new forms feeds her work beyond any label. Her art expresses, as accurately as possible, the fears, the swallowing up, the harsh joys or the miraculous appearances, sometimes with a touching sweetness.

In 2002 she was appointed to the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters.

 Lydie Arickx

Corpuscular, c. 2006

I have no further description, at this time

In optics, the corpuscular theory of light, arguably set forward by Descartes in 1637, states that light is made up of small discrete particles called "corpuscles" which travel in a straight line with a finite velocity and possess impetus. This was based on an alternate description of atomism of the time period. More on Corpuscular

Arickx's work can be found in major national public collections such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Palais de Tokyo, FNAC, in the public space of Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif, the central hospital of Créteil (center hospitalier intercommunal Créteil) and others.

Finally, in her studio, still considered a place of experimentation, Lydie Arickx researches and adapts new supports and materials for her creations. More on Lydie Arickx

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