From 10 October to 11 January, French artist Claire Trotignon presents her third exhibition, ‘Paysages Acrobatiques’ (or ‘Acrobatic Landscapes’), at Galerie 8+4 in Paris. Born in 1985, she graduated from the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Tours. Claire Trotignon’s work combines notions of cartography, landscape and architecture to question the relationship between space and time. The artist composes her works from hundreds of fragments of nineteenth-century engravings. She selects, cuts out and then glues these fragments together to create landscapes that are both dynamic and timeless. In her latest series of works, her collages are set against a coloured background. From pink to blue, paint has enabled the artist to mark out the horizon.

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‘Architecture emerges from colour. In contrast to certain older works displaying an “exploded” aesthetic, here the fragment (or debris) changes scale and sometimes becomes an architectural element. There is always this in-between, this balance between the eroding ruin and, at the same time, a dynamic of construction’, explains Claire Trotignon in an interview with journalist Damien Sausset.

 

 

‘My compositions are created through a process of propagation, with each element determining the next. The piece as a whole unfolds in a search for a fragile balance between shapes and colours, between full and empty. A large space is left free for the eye to move around, for a possible narrative or a sudden breeze.’

 

 

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‘Paysages Acrobatiques’ exhibition, Claire Trotignon
From 10 October 2024 to 11 January 2025
4+8 Gallery – 13, rue d’Alexandrie, 75002 Paris
To find out more about the exhibition, visit the gallery’s website.