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BIOGRAPHY Mystical painter
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An
aesthete……. A
Poet… Isabelle
de Kervalec paints the invisible
transmuted into fantastic characters of animals.
Selftaught… she claims her art is suggested by
mysterious forces from heaven. Her
delirious imagination and the sumptuousness of her colours animate her pictures
with an intense vividness and an original and particular richness.
Her
difficult childhood, her
extreme sensitivity make her into a "woman out of
the ordinary" surrounded by an an "aura", coming from elsewhere.
This elsewhere is the source of her inspiration.
Her
criteria : "mens sana in
corpore sano"
"to be or no to be"
"between being and having she prefers being."
Freedom
and rigour have ruled her life. Fleeing away from photographers and
the Parisian society-life, Isabelle
de Kervalec
was devoting her time to what for her represented her "secret art"
when painful family circumstances brought about a radical change. She
then accepts "to expose publicly her anguish" as she puts it.
In
1970,
Général Billotte gives her the opportunity to accomplish this feat and it is
the occasion for her first exhibit.
While she had been so afraid of this confrontation, she meets with
unexpected success.. She receives the warmth and complicity of the attending
crowd as a present from heaven! This
is a great step forward which opens the door to a new horizons.
Exceptional people come to her, reassure her, and fill her need to be
loved intelligently.
So, here I am propelled again in front of the footlights. It is my destiny, I cannot help it. Art oblige!
1971
: After
this success,
Henri Dumont
(public relation place Vendôme) organizes for me a very Parisian exhibit.
Numerous personalities participate as Sergio Gobbi (Italian cineast), comte of LaFayette,
Pierre Mazeau (soon minister) and so on.. as many stars of the movies, theatre,
T.V. and litterature whose names are impossible to enumerate all ; I am
dumfounded by this new feat and deeply moved by the ardent welcome given to me !
1972
: I
participate in numerous exhibits.
1973
:
Galerie Harriet Katz in le Marais. Private exhibit.
T.V. makes a film rather important presented by Micheline Sandrel.
1974
:
Galerie Claude Keslassy in Beaubourg. Private exhibit.
1975
:
Galerie
Braün, avenue de l'Opéra. Exhibit organized by Xavier Moreski, International President of CORSICA in
Paris. Numerous
personalities, stars, T.V., Medias, etc...
1976
:
Various
"salons" Léonard de Vinci
organized by Princesse Yasmine d'Ouezzan in Rue du Faubourg St Honoré and
others..
I work in litography
in the same "atelier" as Gérard di
Maccio and we expose together several times. He remains one of my favorite
painters.
Always the same
year I receive the "Great humanitary Price of France" with "diplome"
and silver medal.
I meet Hervé Sérane (galerie Râ)
who wants to expose my paintings. He likes my pictures, I like his galery, but
we do not get to an agreement. He exposes Gerard di Maccio and makes him famous.
1977
:
Exhibit
and "vernissage" gorgeous in l'Hôtel des Beaux Arts of Guy Louis Duboucheron.
Great collective exhibit in Centre International de Sèvres of Marylise de
Vilmorin. Two thousands magical guests.
1978 :
Very smart "vernissage" " rue Montpensier". A great number
of actors from "Comédie Française" as Robert Hirsh, Jacques Toja and
so on..
1979
:
First
reward in a competition of paintings made in public in "club Le Privé."
1980-81
: Various
T.V. shows, (Michel Lancelot, Micheline Sandrel, Alain Bougraing-Dubourg etc..). Exhibits
in museums, castles, antiquarys, private properties, theatrical and cultural
happenings, in Paris, Cote d'Azur etc..
Louvre des Antiquaires.
1982
: Enormous
particulary exhibit, fabulous "vernissage" in "C.I.S.P. Porte de
Vincennes". Sixty paintings exposed. I build "le temple du messie"
with four meters high columns, candles, candelabrums, etc.. I named this exhibit
"The Marionnettes de Sylphidias", (title of a novel I should write
about the story of my life).
On the invitations it was written :// Night gown requisited.// I wanted that
night to be a fire-work gorgeous : I was granted ! I like my
"vernissages" to be more than the hanging of pictures, my guests to
"play the game" and participate completely in the show ! In that
evening I was honored to welcome personalities of the Town of Paris, political
people, writers, stars, journalists etc.. A picture was made which is keeped in
the archives of Val de Marne in Créteil.
1984 :
Art
déco, Louvre Museum, important cultural happening under the patronage of
"Ministre de la Culture" which keeps
the 20th anniversary of
"Nouvel Observateur." Public painting sitting, collective exhibit
2.000 personalities, 5 ministers. It brought to me 3 T.V. canals, flowers,
cables, it was unforgettable.
1985 :
Participation
to exhibits in famous Parisian Hotels like "Georges V, Niko,
Warwick" etc...
1986
: Exhibit
in "Cercle des créateurs, quai de la
Tournelle". Thema : the cats.
1987
:
Another exhibit in "Cercle des
Créateurs". Thema : houses and gardens.
Particulary
exhibit in "Club des Poètes".
1988
:
Gallery "Arts Tournelle" collective exhibit. Thema : the woman.
1989-90
: Various
"salons", museums, : "St Germain-en-Laye, St Cloud, La
Varenne, Bry sur Marne, Sucy en Brie, Créteil, Val d'Oise."
I
sculpt "les
statuettes de Sylphidias". At
that time, I start a new painting period ; deciding to get out of my
intellectual turmoil, I paint only beauty ; which leads to exposition 2 of the
site "sublimated woman."
2000 : For
the time being, I am taking a break. I don't know where life will be taking me.
This time will internet allow me to pursue my career alone on my rock while at
the same time connected with you, the world ? Ideal, isn't it !
2001
: virtual exhibitions : France (Aspect), Australia, Canada, Brasil, USA, Italia.
I receive the awards : "World Web Award of Excellence."(CANADA)
"World Web Award of Excellence."(BRASIL)
"International Artist Award."(USA)
2002
: "World Web Award of Excellence."(CANADA)
2004
: "World Web Award of Excellence."(CANADA).
2005-06
: "Imageries
Fantastiques"
SOME PRESS SAMPLES :
//Self taught
painter inspired by psycho tragical subjectivity with dantesc symbolism,
Isabelle de Kervalec retired in a novelistic world, paints expressionnist
pictures for their shape and subjectivity. She likes to conceive works which
evoke medieval Mystic and characters who reflect the inside psycological storm.//
Vallobra.
Apollo 1976.
//Painting
of our nowaday's world, every one feels differently these pictures which
sometimes evoke Surnatural ! Isabelle de Kervalec exposes actually in the "Centre International de Sèvres."
Her youth was not particulary dark : à 18 years old, she was a
star
model !..
"May be it is a contraste with this atmosphere of lights that my first
picture was a black man's face !"
"Though a woman very courted and photographied, I needed loneliness to
create. I did not go to a painting school because everybody told me not to, so
that my personality may not be influenced. I do not miss it because painting's
technic can be adquired by touchs. Today people live only for money and I hardly
get used to this realistic way of life"//
Patrick Forestier.
Nostra 1977.
//This woman out of the ordinary, mystical painter
in love with Wagner, became a producer for the love of her son Stéphane Bonneau,
a very talentuous guitarist, she allows to record... forsaking her personal
carreer for a while..//
Lionel Rotcage.
Libération
1982.
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