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source: agathedeb

Agathe de Bailliencourt is an artist, born in Paris and currently based in Berlin. She works on canvas and paper, as well as in public space, architecture and nature. Since 2005, her
drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited internationally.
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source: bcontemporary

Born in 1974, Agathe de Bailliencourt’s media ranges from canvas and paper to public spaces and architecture.

Although her drawings and paintings are rather abstract, her work is characterized by a more or less aggressive pressure to be as tangible as possible. She is interested in the act of painting within a concrete context. Creating a personal experience, she emphasizes her freedom and its constraints in a direct and spontaneous way. The works themselves are an attempt to show a total sincerity of self including incidence and failure.

For her installations, de Bailliencourt develops works directly within the perspectives of the urban landscape, within the everyday reality of people. The installations do not follow a precast plan, but emerge in the actual occupation of the space when she begins a project.

Whether her work is a large-scale installation or a work on paper, the research and concerns are the same. Primarily, she is interested in personal freedom and liberation. Therefore, the integral elements of her work are figures of contradiction and repetition, patterns of continuous, countless, irrepressible approach.

Since 2004, de Bailliencourt has been exhibiting internationally; she participated in the Singapore Biennale in 2006 with a site-specific paint installation. In 2007, she completed her first large-scale light projection at the IHZ-Building/Berlin followed by a second light installation in 2008 at the Berliner Dom, as well as an installation for the Shanghai Zendai Museum within the same year. In 2009, she was invited by Mori Art Museum in Tokyo to take part in the Roppongi Art Night and then later that year returned to Japan for the Tokyo Wonder Site Residency. In 2010, she published an artist book with Revolver Publishing and had her first New York solo exhibition at Lu Magnus, Expressway to your Skull, exhibiting works on canvas. In 2011, she completed a permanent public installation for a high school in France. Most recently, de Bailliencourt took part in two residencies; the prestigious nine month residency with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s workspace program and the Art Omi residency in Ghent, New York which she has just completed. Agathe de Bailliencourt had her first solo exhibition with Benrimon Contemporary in Spring 2013.
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source: artisho

Née en 1974, Agathe de Bailliencourt vit à Singapour depuis 2002. Après les beaux-arts de Cergy et l’Ecole Boulle, Agathe travaille en France et en Inde en tant que designer et directrice artistique tout en développant son projet artistique en parallèle.
Depuis 3 ans. Agathe se consacre exclusivement à la peinture.

Qu’il soit sur papier, sur toile ou directement appliqué sur les murs, son travail exprime des conversations et obsessions intimes: “ au c½ur de mes dessins et peintures, il y a l’expression brute, spontanée. Des figures se développent dans « l’instinctivité » de l’écriture manuscrite et des répétitions.”

Agathe prête parfois son univers visuel unique a des collaborations.
Récemment elle a peint son premier mur au Guerrilla Store Comme des Garçons de Singapour.
En 2004 Agathe crée également une campagne d’affichage pour l’agence Ogilvy & Mather de Singapour. Cette campagne a remporté de nombreux prix dont un Lion d’Or et d’Argent au festival international de la publicité à Cannes en 2005.
Aujourd’hui Agathe participe avec le designer Theseus Chan (Work) au design de la première biennale d’art contemporain de Singapour, “ Singapore Biennale 2006 ”, qui se tiendra en septembre 2006.

Le travail d’Agathe a été exposé à la ’Shanghai Youth Biennale’ en juin 2005 (Commissaire d’exposition M. Fumio Nanjo).
Ses peintures sont également exposées à la galerie Taksu de Singapour et Kuala
Lumpur (Malaisie).