NAME Anne Brenner

Statement of work

Canadian-born, I grew up in Montreal until my family, of Frensh descent, move back to France.
After my studies at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, I worked in the spirit of the land-art.
I have made several actions in zoos to collect footprints of animals on canvases. I got the footprints of many animals : rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, leopard, and so on.
Later, I went to Africa to collect footprints of wild animals. I am stayed a year and a half and I have learned to track the animals to recognize the ways they attend.
I got large canvases with footprints of elephants, hippopotamus, antelopes, and so on.
I then went to Morocco to collect the prints of the ocean. My paintings have sailed several months hanging on the sides of a boat.
Parallement, I have always continued painting  in studio.
In recent years, I devoted eclusively to painting.
A set of paintings explores the relationship of power betwenn the old world and the new world. Palaces like the Louvre or Versailles versus futuristic buildings of Dubai or Shangai.
Another set of paintings explores the relationship betwenn the human being and the social-economic world.
Monkeys in open-spaces studios.

Born in 1958 à Montréal – Canada
Lives and works in Paris
Graduated in Fine Art Painting (Beaux-Arts de Paris)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

- 1987    Galerie Guy Mondineu – Paris
- 1988    Galerie Guy Mondineu – Paris
- 1989    Galerie Varachaud – Grenoble
- 1990    Espace Cahane – Paris
- 1992    Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle – Grenoble
Galerie Courtieux – Suresnes
- 1996    Galerie Blanche – Strasbourg
- 1997    Galerie Gastaud – Clermont-Ferrand
Galerie Gastaud & Caillard – Paris
- 1999    Galerie Gastaud – Clermont-Ferrand
- 2000    Galerie Espace Suisse – Strasbourg
- 2002    La Grande Serre – Cité des Arts et des Sciences – La Villette – Paris

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

- 1986    Galerie l’Aire du Verseau – Paris
- 1987    Galerie Guy Mondineu – Paris
- 1988    Salon de Montrouge
Génie de la Bastille – Paris
- 1989    Galerie des Services Culturels de l’Ambassade du Canada à Paris
Galerie Guy Mondineu
- 1990    Galerie Varachaud – Grenoble
- 1991    Galerie Varachaud – Grenoble
- 1992    Le Chantier – Cité des Arts et des Sciences – La Villette – Paris
XIII ème Art – Paris
- 1993    XIII ème Art – Paris
- 1994    Mairie de Leuville – 91
Fondation l’Art pour l’Arc – Paris
- 1997    L’empreinte – Musée d’art moderne Centre Pompidou
Espace International Universitaire d’Art Contemporain
- 1998    Mairie de Montrouge
Bedroom Gallery Bathroom Gallery – Salon Toukokuu – chez Skall – Paris
              Eventaire – Heartless – Paris
- 1999    Jardins secrets – L’art dans la ville – St-Etienne
Illuminations 2000 – Paris
- 2000    Résonances – Ecomusée de Fresnes
L’incurable mémoire des corps – Hôpital Charles Foix – Ivry-sur-Seine
- 2008     Hôtel de l’Industrie – Paris

GRANTS
- 1989    Awarded the Léonard da Vinci Grant by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, France
- 1989/90   Residency in Ivory Cost for the achievement of the « bush »
- 1991    Residency in Morocco for the achievement of the « ocean »

PRESS

Films, videos

1. Documentary 1987, 4 minutes, réalized by P. Roméo, produced by Label Video
2. 3 documentary, 3 minutes each, produced by TF1, la 5, M6 (French TV)
3. Documentary 1989, produced by Channel 4 (England)
4. Documentary 1990, 9 minutes, realized by A. Beltram, produced by Eolis Productions
5. Documentary 1990, 8 minutes, realized by D. Blairon, produced by System TV
6. Documentary 1993, 3 minutes, produced by France 2 (TV)

Selected radio

1. France-Inter – 30 September 1986 – interview by J. Pradel
2. Europe 1 – 27 January 1988 – interview by C. Barbier
3. France-Inter – 2 February 1988 – interview by L. Broohead
4. France-Inter – 4 Febuary 1988 – interview by Gregoire
5. R.F.I – 27 March 1988 – interview by A. Riou

Selected TV

1. Régional Ile-deFrance – 4 November 1986 – FR3
2. Aujourd’hui la vie – 4 December 1986 – A2
3. Club 6 Bouteiller – 31 March 1988 – M6
4. Journal de 20h – 10 October 1987 – TF1
5. Ushuaia 6 June 1992 – TF1
6. Journal de 13h – June 1993 – F2

   Selected articles

1. Le Matin by Gilles Costaz – N° 3052 – 1986
2. L’Evenement du Jeudi by E. Pontié – N° 127 – 1987
3. Der Spiegel – N° 24 – 1987
4. Le Progrès by F. Brochet – 5 Jully 1987
5. Artension by François Pluchart – January 1988
6. A.F.P by C. Spillmann – 16 December 1989
7. Reuters by Michaël Rody – 22 November 1989
8. Le Parisien by D. Barbier – 25 September 1992
9. Le Figaro – 27 January 1997
10. La Montagne – 22 April 1997
11. L ‘Express – 6 May 1999
12. La Montagne – 12 May 1999
13. Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace – 3 January 2001
14. Le Figaro – 19 January 2002

Catalogues solo exhibitions

1. Galerie Guy Mondineu – Pris 1987
2. Galerie Varachaud – Grenoble 1989
3. Museum d’Histoire Naturelle – Grenoble – 1992
4. Galerie Courtieux – Suresnes 1992
5. Galerie Blanche – Strasbourg 1996

Catalogues group exhibitions

1. Salon de Montrouge – 1988
2. Centre Culturel Canadien – Paris 1989
3. Parc de la Villette – Paris – éditions d’art Daniel Boulogne – 1992
4. Mairie de Leuville – 1994
5. Musée d’art moderne Centre Pompidou – texts by Georges Didi-Huberman – 1997
6. Salon de Montrouge – 1998
7. Jardins secrets – l’art dans la ville – St Etienne – 1999
8. Résonances – Fresnes – 2000
9. L’incurable mémoire des corps – texts by Stephen Wright – Ivry-sur-Seine – 2000
10. Participation at « Le poste nomade » N°2 – 2002

Book

        les artistes au Jardin des Plantes » by Luc Vezin, Herscher édition, 1990