Annick Gendron was a French abstract painter, (1939 Châtin,

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Art

In the 1970s Gendron’s innovative way of using and manipulating industrial material and tools as plastic, glass, hydraulics press and centrifuges. Gendron’s painting and thought process has always revolved around using often surprising materials

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, fossils,

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, glitters, sponges. Uncommon themes such as the limits to scientific knowledge and the

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are central to her work. Annick Gendron has been painting and exhibiting since 1965. Her work has been shown at the Raymond Duncan Gallery, at the

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Gallery, at the

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and Surindependant at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at the

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at the Grand Palais and the

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in Paris.

Spin painting

At the end of the 1960s she was one of the first artist to use centrifugal force to produce large-sized artworks. Inspired by children's games :

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, spin painting, her goal was to transcend this modest use to get the most spectacular effects from it.

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got the same idea in the 1990s, as her he transcends the original practice, by the use of more spectacular materials, sizes, shapes, and skill improvement.

Gallery

After winning the ORTF prize in 1971 and the Art Society Medal for Science and Literature, Gendron opened the Annick Gendron Gallery in the

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in 1973. During a period of 10 years, Gendron exhibited with artists and friends such as

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and 1940s artists and designer as Chana Orloff,

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, André Arbus.

Notes and references

* ''Galerie des arts'' (magazine) 1970 * '' L'Amateur d'Art'' (magazine) N° 525 - 18 October 1973

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gendron, Annick 1939 births 2008 deaths People from Nièvre French women painters Abstract expressionist artists Modern painters 20th-century French women artists

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Spin painting

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