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Nina Childress
Nina Childress (born Christine Childress, 1961) is a French-American visual artist, based in Paris, France. Life and work Born in Pasadena, California, United States, she studied in Paris at the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD). At the end of the 1970s, she took an active part in the French punk movement with her group, Lucrate Milk. She started painting at the same time and, from 1985 to 1989, joined the street artist collective Les Frères Ripoulin. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, art centers and galleries. In 2012, the MAMCO, Museum d'art moderne et contemporain (Geneva) held a major exhibition of her paintings. In 2013, the Palais de Tokyo commissioned her ''Green Curtain'': a large ''in-situ'' installation for the entrance of the museum. Childress teaches painting at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts since 2019. She was teaching before at the École nationale supérieure d’art (ENSA) in Nancy, France. Solo exhibition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
