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April 19 to 21, 2012 Isabelle Bonzom will participate in the international symposium "Hors Cadre" ( out-of-frame, out-of-bounds), that will take place at the arts research center, Iselp, in Brussels. This symposium will deal with art in the public space, it will be about mural art. Isabelle Bonzom will talk about her experience as a muralist. |
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Off with their heads! Isabelle Bonzom discussed her research, both as a painter and a scholar, on the representation of the flesh based on two iconographic characters: Judith and Salome. Through dramatic images showing women with male heads, Isabelle Bonzom talked about the cutting. Her lecture tackles the notion of fragmentation of the body and the image. How the touch, the picture and the character are cut. She talked about her own experience as a painter. Then, she examined how Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Rubens, Veronese and Klimt treat those subjects and how Brancusi, Matisse and Fischl evoke the question. Watch the video of the lecture For more info: The New York Academy of Art
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among the artists of this group show are Sabine Weiss, Peter Bond and Isabelle Bonzom from
November to December 2010 Galerie Peirce
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From May 22 to August 29, 2010, the City of Les Herbiers, in Vendée, western France, has proposed an unprecedented exhibition Jouvences “Although our show gathers artists of various generations and styles, all those artists have one thing in common: a rejection of the prevailing morosity. All reflect a vitalist contemporary art that is an art provoking intensely lived perceptions. Faced with the death wish that surrounds us, "Jouvences" does not, however, oppose it with a superficial hedonistic euphoria, for there is gravity in the joy that is shown in this exhibit”, writes Pierre Sterckx
For this special exhibition housed in the city art center, the Ardelay Castle, were gathered for the first time some of the most renowned contemporary living artists such as Wim Delvoye, Tony Cragg, Julie Mehretu, Christopher Wool, Charles Sandison and Eric Fischl. Among the 23 artists of different nationalities selected by Pierre Sterckx was Isabelle Bonzom. In 2003, she already had a solo show at the Ardelay Castle. For the Jouvences show, Pierre Sterckx's choice has focused on her recent paintings from her Cascade series. |
| Pierre Sterckx writes: “Isabelle Bonzom has developed over two decades themes as varied as urban architectures, urban forests, subway systems, meats and nudes. But the invariant thread woven through all her work is her concern with incarnation. How to incarnate the movement of life and intensity of the flesh? More precisely, Isabelle Bonzom paints the fluid evolution of the flesh, the turmoil of bodies and their passages. She extends a quest that started with Caravaggio and Gentileschi and continued with Chardin and Bonnard."
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Delicious Gravity, jubilation in painting |
"Jubilation in art is a serious matter", says Isabelle Bonzom. She talked about her approach as a painter and provided her thoughts on the notion of vitalism in art. She also discussed her correspondence on the matter with painter and sculptor Eric Fischl, while commenting on his “Tumbling Woman” |
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In Paris, from November 26, 2009, to January 21st, 2010, The Winter Show a
collective exhibition of both historic and living artists, such as Léger, Dufy, Doré, Balthus, Vieira da Silva, Bond and
Bonzom
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| Previous exhibitions, read CV and see the 2007-2009 Exhibitions |
