ANNE MANOLI
BIOGRAPHY
Anne Manoli was born in Paris on 24 February 1961.
She realised very early on that painting would be favourite medium for celebrating nature, which has had a strong impact on her from childhood, from childhood. It was withwith her grandmother, Marie Renaut, that she began her first paintings. In 1976, she turned to studies in the plastic arts. Fascinated by the work of Van Gogh, Ensor and Soutine, she painted series of expressionist expressionist portraits. In 1980 she entered at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the studio of the painter Louis Nallard, who encouraged her. Nallard's tellurism and an exhibition of De Staël reinforced her attraction to matter. The discovery of De Kooning, Pollock and Klein gradually freed her from expressionist figuration. She graduated from ENSBA in 1983 with a series of almost monochrome canvases, featuring organic, diaphanous forms and broad flat tints, and had her first solo exhibition in 1984.
In 1985–1986, she continued her work by engraving directly into the paint itself, evoking Egyptian and Syrian bas-reliefs that connected her to her father, Pierre Manoli, a sculptor of Egyptian origin. She was inspired by the paintings of Kieffer and Barcelo. In 1988, she sought new artistic avenues through various collages and layered canvases, and her palette grew darker. Gradually, her brushwork became freer, and she rediscovered the joy of the mud of her childhood. From this original crucible, Anne Manoli produced the series “Muraille Végétales” and “Transmutations,” which express her obsession with the alchemy of decomposition.
The painter Astolfo Zingaro discovered her work and introduced her to the gallerist Nicolas Deman, who offered her a fruitful collaboration: several solo exhibitions followed—“Migrations,” “Chrysalides,” and “Après la pluie”—from 1999 to 2002; color and gesture intensified. In London, upon encountering the works of Kossoff and Auerbach, she fully realized that painting conveys a vital energy. In 2003, at the urging of Marion and Yves Guigon, the artist created large-scale works in which she explored the four natural elements with “Grandes tourbières,” “Marée blanche,” “Grand lapilli,” and “Asphodèles.”
From 2004 to 2005, Anne Manoli undertook a series titled “Terres d’eaux,” landscapes featuring horizontal lines that repeat like the ebb and flow of the tides. In Normandy, the verticality of the cliffs gave rise to a series of canvases—small, mineral-like, fragile fragments of earth—exhibited at the Galerie Guigon in “Verts presque tendres” in 2010. From then on, the painter focused on the “canvas object”—the design formed by the paint spilling beyond the frame: first, she consolidated it; then, she emphasized it: the overflow of paint was no longer the result of a spontaneous gesture but a premeditated construction. “The canvas object” becomes increasingly tactile; the edges, thus drawn and sculpted, give the impression of an extraction, a tearing away.
In 2013, Galerie Mézières presented a monograph: “La Passagère,” along with an exhibition of a series of canvases, a mise en abîme of a piece of land (an island) where time erodes the surface. Having become matte, the light diffuses a more subdued energy. Continuing the “mineralization” of the painting, her work aligns with the cave art of the fresco.
In her series “Les moires” (2018), Anne Manoli reveals, between two surfaces, an underground world of forms in motion and in flux, which give rise to islands of matter along their trajectories while connecting them. She highlights the physicality of the pictorial layer and asserts that painting is anything but an image.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- The gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary. Carte blanche to Pierre Wat, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Drawing Now, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
- Earth Reborn, Galerie Nicolas Auvray, New York, Etats-Unis
2025
- La nature en question, Galerie Berthet- Aittouarès, Paris, France
- La nature en question II, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Contemporary landscapes by European artists, Galerie Nicolas Auvray, New York, United States
2024
- Over the line, abstract explorations of nature, Galerie Nicolas Auvray, New York, United States
2023
- Exhibition withe Francois Weil, Galerie Christine Colon, Liège, Belgique
- En Piste !, Musée de la Boverie, France
- Prix Monique Corpet
2022
- A fleur de peau, Galerie Nicolas Demain, Paris, France
- Exhibition with Michel Potage, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
2021
- Manoli Anne&Sylvie, Musée Manoli, La Richardais, France
- Cabinet d'amateur, Galerie Convergences, Paris, France
- Domaine de Montmarin, Pleurtuit, France
- Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
2020
- Exhibition with D.Coffignier, M.Macreau, S.Nikoski, P.Rebeyrolle, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
- Elan de nature, Galerie Convergences, Paris, France
2019
- Solo show, Verhoogen Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgique
- Le Hublot, Ivry, France
- Galerie Convergences, Paris, France
- Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
2018
- Les moires, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
2017
- Sauvage est le vent, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
- Exhibition with Denis Martin, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
2016
- Le banquet des Nymphes, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
- Art Elysées, Galerie Mézières, Paris, France
- La petite Collection Co2, Galerie White Project, Paris, France
- Les désordres d’Eros, Galerie Luc Berthier, Paris, France
- La petite collection Co2, Salon du dessin D dessin, Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
2015
- Les petits de mes amis, Galerie Luc Berthier, Paris, France
- Les rencontres Oblikes…, Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
2014
- Lille Art Fair, Art Elysées, Galerie Mézières, Paris, France
- Fondation Taylor, association Rémanence Paris, France
- Les rencontres Oblik-es…, Clichy, France
2013
- La passagère, Galerie Mézières, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
- Art O'Clock, Galerie Mézières, Paris, France
- Lille Art Fair, Galerie Mézières, Paris, France
- Autour de R.E.Gillet et Louis Nallard, Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
2012
- Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
- Un avant gout de la genèse, Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris, France
2011
- L'Art à la Guerche , D*le label Decrouy, Château de La Guerche, France
- Par Nature , Espace d ‘art contemporain Eugène Beaudouin, Antony, France
2010
- Verts presque tendres, Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
2009
- Galerie du Grand T & Centre d’art contemporain La Rairie, Nantes, France
2008
- Galerie du Grand T, Nantes, France
2007
- Centre d'art Athanor, Guérande, France
- Etat des lieux, Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
2005
- Jardin des turpitudes, Rue Berryer, Paris, France
- Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
2004
- Galerie Jacob 1, Paris, France
- Centre d’art Sébastien, Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France
- Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
2003
- Galerie Guigon, Paris, France
- Salon d’Angers, Triptyque, France
2002
- Après la pluie, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
2001
- Chrysalides, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
- Galerie Borzo, s’Hertogenbosh Signature Paris 5
2000
- Migrations, Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
1999
- Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris, France
1998
- Solo show, Galerie du Crous, Paris
- Du Végétal à l’Animal, Artmalgam, Cloitre des Billettes, Paris
- Maison des Artistes, Charenton, France
- Acquisition par la Fondation Colas
- Kuroda Living, Tokyo, Japon
1997
- Salon Itinéraires, Levallois- Perret, France
1996
- Petites Impertinences, Cachan, France
1995
- Mac 2000, Paris, France
1994
- Galerie Borzo, s’Hertogenbosh Signature Paris 2
- Galerie du Montparnasse, Paris, France
- Salon de Vitry, France
1993
- La Forge, Paris, France
1990
- Galerie Perchée, Paris, France
- Espace Ter, Paris, France
1989
- Festival international d’art contemporain de Monte Carlo
1987
- Cimaises Ventadour, Paris, France
- SAD, Biennale de la création contemporaine, Paris, France
- Salon de Troyes, France
1986
- 70 sculptures polychromes, Eymoutiers, France
- Salon de Mai, Paris, France
1984
- Exposition personnelle, Galerie Maurice Ravel, France
1983
- Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
1982
- Galerie de la Maison des Beaux-arts, Paris, France
1981
- Salon National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France