ALLEGORIES / Love

photography by Josef Guinzbourg

“Flemish portraits in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum gave me a shock when I was eight. My parent's house was decorated with reproductions of Botticelli, Léger and Chagall’s paintings and my aunt’s portrait by Picasso. My grandfather, a sunday painter, Iived upstairs among a fragrant mess of smashed paint tubes.”

Since she was twelve, Sophie Guinzbourg has been practicing oil painting and visiting small or big museums everywhere. Vermeer, Giotto and Matisse are some of her references.

While in her third year at the Faculty of Humanities in the french town of Nancy, Sophie opened her own fashion boutique. She soon interrupted her studies to create clothes, jewels and bags. These creations were shown and distributed by shops and art galleries and promoted by well-known magazines like "Marie-Claire", "Elle" and "Le Figaro".

In 1989 Sophie is chosen to design the poster for the prestigious "Nancy Jazz Pulsations" Festival. Her work is noticed and appreciated by the public and the press. From that moment on she is able to live from her art...

D.C. Fuchs (Museum Stibbert Florence Italy) thinks she belongs to the tradition of genre scenes. Through deliberate distorted perspective, her figurative paintings present the relationships between human beings, often men and women in love. Sophie Guinzbourg's work tells us silent, modest and sincere stories of life.

http://www.sophie-guinzbourg.fr

Phone: +33(0)3 83 49 63 39 or+33(0)6 32 96 43 30

sophieguinzbourg@gmail.com

Sophie GUINZBOURG 25, rue Haute 54340 Pompey FRANCE

CURRICULUM VITAE ( main professional moments )

Main personal exhibitions

2014 Works on paper / Media Centre / Toul

2014 Spontaneous exhibition / private collectionners’ home / Lunéville

2 013 Works in progress // Galerie 9, Municipal gallery / Nancy

2012 Galerie MCLH // Nancy

2011 Town gallery for contemporary art / Baccarat

2010 Allegories / Abbaye des Prémontrés / Pont-à-Mousson

2009 Alice in wonderland / Madame de Graffigny gallery / Villers les Nancy

2008 Engravings on the theme of reading / L’autre rive Bookshop / Nancy

2008 Orpheo & Eurydice / Gallery Castle Corbin / Liverdun

2007 Hotels / ‘’ The merchant’s house’’ gallery / Lunéville

2005 Bars & coffee scenes / Bar le Trinquet / Nancy

2005 Orpheo & Eurydice / Socles et Cimaises de Desforges / Nancy

2005 Month of Contemporary Art / Town gallery / Baccarat

2004 Gallery Raymond Banas / Metz

2003 Pitti Palace Albergo Gallery/ Florence, Italy

2003 Gallery l’Artichaut / Nancy

2001 Orangerie of the Villa Strozzi / Florence / Italy

2000 Gallery Racine / Paris

2000 TGP theater gallery /Frouard

1999 Racine Gallery/ Paris

1999 Socles et Cimaises gallery Desforges / Nancy

1998 CCI Gallery / Strasbourg

1997 Cloister of the Cathedral / Toul

1996 The quest of the lost book, secondhandbookseller // Fontenoy la Joute

1995 Réattu Gallery / Arles

1995 Municipal Museum / Toul

1994 La Lisière Gallery / Reims

1993 Openbare Biblioteek / Wageningen / Holland

1992 Town Gallery / Nancy

1991 Le Côtre Corsaire Gallery / Saint Malo

1990 Lavoir theater space / Epinal

1990 The Prémontrés Abbey /Pont-à -Mousson

1990 Etienne de Causans Gallery / Paris

1989 Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations / Nancy

Posters for cultural events

1989 Nancy / Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations.

1990 Epinal / Rencontres théâtrales "Les Larmes du Rire".

1990 Strasbourg et Nancy / Bourse aux Disques.

1991 Saint -Malo / 25ème Congrès de l' Illusion.

1993 Nancy, Lille et Toulouse / Goethe Institut / " Les Femmes dans les films de Max Ophuls".

1994 Paris / "Dans la solitude des champs de coton / B. M. Koltès"/Thèâtre en Mai de Dijon.

1994 Villerupt / Festival du film italien.

1994 Paris / "Chambres" / Philippe Minyana / Compagnie Boomerang.

1997 Lannion / Festival Frissons d'Avril / Le Carré Magique.

1998 Lannion / Festival Frissons d'Avril / Le Carré Magique.

2000 Nancy / Du Frioul en Sicile avec l’ange Sérafino / Primo Basso / Compagnie Les crieurs de nuit.

2002 Nancy / Le Livre sur la Place / Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Nancy.

2002 Nancy / La Deesse Lare / Andrée Chedid / Compagnie Les crieurs de nuit.

2004 Nancy / Plakat Polski / Médiathèque de Nancy

2007 Bitche / Estivales de Bitche / Ville de Bitche

2008 Nancy / Les années Guinguette / le Grand Sauvoy

2008 Nancy / On s’expose / Batigère

2008 Nancy / Corneille / La troupe de tous les plaisirs

Orders / other realisations

2001 Stained glass for the Beer Museum / Saint Nicolas De Port

1994 Mural paintings for interior courtyard of Central Hospital / Nancy

1991 Design for interior mosaic fountain (45 square meters ) / Evry

Collective exhibitions

2013 Italian terrace / TEM Gallery / Goviller

2012 Mythologies / Gallery Socles et Cimaises de Desforges, / Nancy

2011 The laundry , installation / Hors des sentiers battus / Laxou

2007 Hotels / Galerie TEM / Goviller

2003 Six engravers from Nancy/ Ligny en Barrois

2002 Six engravers from Nancy/ Mediacenter / Nancy

2002 Art’gonne / Evres en Argonne

2000 Paper, papers /Mediacenter / Laxou /

1999 Regain / Galleries Poirel / Nancy

1997 Fab’market Place Carrière / Nancy

1995 Center Isabelle Romée / Neufchâteau

1994 The Images Room, from the legend of Tristan et Iseult / Galleries Poirel./ Nancy

1993 Heart artists : Sale for Restaurants du Cœur / Vittel

1992 Grand palais / Salon des Indépendants Paris

1990 Le Samouraï / Cergy Pontoise

1989 Festival d'art contemporain / Nancy

1989 Tour Eiffel / Espace J.F Guyot / Paris

Possible Serenity

In Sophie Guinzbourg's paintings, human relationships, a look, a gesture, movement and expressions combine to create a world of her own. A table, an armchair or a glass suffice to give a place in time to these ordinary, beautiful heroes, who exemplify not Olympian perfection, but human failings and frailties.

As in genre painting, this is a calmly affectionate world, where people spend time together, love and value each other, though they sometimes experience solitude. These people and their stories bear witness to possible serenity.

Colour and line are the means to this end. Light is evenly diffused over the surface of the paintings, where sometimes a patch of brighter or more intense colour highlights a hand, a face or an object, to create a dramatic effect that catches the eye and feeds the imagination. Outlines are fluid but solidly drawn and the compositions play with perspective without ever distorting it.

This is the work of a calm and thoughtful artist, who offers the unpretentious example of a human and tenderly joyful universe, for the pleasure of all who care to encounter the dialogue of colour and line.