MARIE CLAUDE BUGEAUD
BIOGRAPHY
Marie-Claude Bugeaud, is a French artist born in 1941 in Paris.
"In her paintings, figures, patterns, signs appear and play with line and cutting. Irregular squares, dots, flowers, knots, arabesques, interlacing. These motifs borrow abstract or symbolic signs from primitive traditions or decorative systems : a detail for the whole, a wavy shape for the hair, a fold for the dress. In recent works, color returns : carmine reds, acid yellows, washed-out blues. This color constitutes the support of the signs, which by line or by mass, cross the painting.
Marie-Claude Bugeaud is a painter of oscillation. Between line and color, between abstraction and allusion to a few motifs — hair, mouth, ... — her work progresses. Forces confront each other and find, in this very confrontation, their rightful place. The lightness of the arabesques combats the darkness of the dots. Concentration, the weight of the points come, against this lightness, to call back to the tragic order of the world."
— Pierre Wat, catalog of the Marie-Claude Bugeaud exhibition, Maison des arts de Malakoff, 2000
EXHIBITIONS
2018
- Freedom at work, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2016
- Paintings, 2015-2016, Djeziri-Bonn Gallery, Paris, France
2015
- Concrete fiction, béa-ba gallery, Marseille, France
- Around the book, Djeziri Bonn gallery, Paris, France
2013
- Djeziri Bonn-Linard Gallery, Paris, France
2011
- Jean-Greset Gallery, Besançon, France
- AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France
2010
- Eric Linard gallery, La Garde Adhémar, France
2009
- Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
- Vielle du Temple gallery, Paris, France
2005
- The Judiths, Abbey Church of Bernay, Eure, France
- Franch Font Gallery, Montpellier, France
- Art in the Chapels, Saint Tugdual, Quistinic, France
2003
- On the 19th, CRAC: Art School of Belfort, Belfort, France
- Artistic moments, Christian Aubert, Paris, France
2002
- Julio Gonzalez Gallery, Arcueil, France
2001
- ESAD Gallery, Reims, France
1999
- Corinne Caminade Gallery, Paris, France
1995
- Pierre Colt Gallery, Nice, France
1993
- FIAC, Pierre Colt Gallery, France
- Pierre Colt Gallery, Nice, France
1992
- Passages art center, Troyes, France
- Veronique Smagghe Gallery, Paris, France
- Edouard Manet Gallery, Gennevilliers, France
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Fabre Museum of Montpellier
Bon Marché Rive Gauche Paris
Collection of the General Council of Var
National Fund for Contemporary Art
Municipal fund of the city of Paris
Municipal collection of works on paper, Vitry
Hauts-de-Seine Departmental Fund for Contemporary Art.
Val-de-Marne Departmental Fund for Contemporary Art.
The Ring, Nantes Art Library.