This exhibition brings together Denise Brimson’s sculptures inspired by living forms, Hélène Bascoul’s prints exploring light and shadow, and Pierre Laigret’s monumental paintings imbued with vibrant energy.
Hélène Bascoul (printmaking) Hélène Bascoul earned a degree in Visual Arts from Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1993. Alongside her work as a printmaker, she runs workshops for a wide range of participants (teenagers, people with disabilities, prisoners, vulnerable communities…). In 2024, she received a Taylor printmaking prize at the Salon d’Automne. Created using etching and aquatint on copper, Hélène Bascoul’s prints engage in a constant interplay between light and shadow, presence and absence. She depicts lived-in places, faces, emotions, and intimate moments. Over the years, the printmaker has made everyday life her main source of inspiration, portraying it with subtlety, contrast, and poetry. Pierre Laigret (painting) Pierre Laigret began his training at the École de Beaux-Arts d’Orléans. He then further developed his printmaking and fresco techniques. Since the 1980s, his work has regularly been featured in exhibitions in Bretagne, Paris, and throughout France. In 2021, he received the Fondation Taylor’s Fernand Cormon painting prize. In his very large fresco-painted works, Pierre Laigret boldly reimagines the great narratives of our history, whether mythical, religious, or secular. Drawing on a palette of muted reds, blues, and grayish whites, he creates paintings filled with vitality and energy. Denise Brimson (sculpture) Originally from La Réunion, Denise Brimson took drawing classes at Hertfordshire College of Art in the United Kingdom before joining the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la Celle-Saint-Cloud, led by Jacqueline Georges Deyme and Jean-Marc Lange, where she trained in sculpture. Since 1994, she has exhibited her work in France and abroad and takes part in the leading Paris art salons each year. Denise Brimson explores the interaction between species and between the plant and animal worlds. The voluptuous forms of her sculptures evoke fruit, female figures, or both at once. Poetry, irreverence, tenderness—everything in her work celebrates life.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Fondation Taylor