Stunning French Stitchery ~Incredible Work~ Elisabeth Baillon Signed

Biography
Elisabeth Baillon "embroidered inks"
1962 / 1972 At La Ferté-Milon (Aisne) creates naïve and affectionate works using an embroidery machine. Self-taught personal technique. Numerous exhibitions both in France and abroad.
1963 Prix de la Vocation
1972 Moves to Larzac (Aveyron) to live in an isolated fortress which will be threatened for 10 years by a military camp project. She loses the thread of her creation…
1975 Inspiration returns: unrecognizable! the naive aspect has disappeared, there remain solid defensive armor like the house and Larzac
1982 Creation of the Larzac Ecomuseum
1985 Technical transformation: the wool embroidery is associated with a pen drawing. Dialogues or mimicry between wool and ink, flesh and bone
1989 to 1995 Mandate of deputy mayor for culture of the city of Millau
1996 Return to the web where the characters of yesteryear reappear. Familiar mythology…
2007 New metamorphosis: photos are transferred and stitched on the canvas
In parallel with her creation as a visual artist, she pursues literary research on various trades and the material roots of their imagination: the earth and the peasants of Larzac, the skin and the glovemakers of Millau, the sea and movement among fishermen, yarn and time in textiles. etc…

Embroidered Route

“For me, embroidering is traveling on fabric! For twenty years mine was a deep black. At the start a drawing, clean, precise like a map of staff. From the embroidery machine emerges a chain of wool, a tiny road, as fine as a pencil, as agile as a paintbrush. All forms will be surrounded, plowed in concentric rhythms. Incessant circulation bringing each of them back to its core. Point by point under this colored network the black canvas will disappear. The speed of the machine, its alert course on the web will lead to all wandering daydreams. Its noise of a small tractor will drown out all other noises, giving my walk the solitary joy of a long-distance runner.
For three years the journey stops or rather continues on another territory, for another memory, this one collective: creation of the Ecomuseum of Larzac.


Back to the canvas, but there, surprise! Lost the desire to fight against his darkness, lost the will to cover him with light. This time starting from white, taming the whiteness of the host. Dare to stain it not without remorse and soak it with various juices and inks. It overflows without discipline and quietly capillaries in your back. But the drawing floats, it is constructed; then it is scratched, shaded, scratched like a kind of pen tattoo. The chain surrounds this framework, it borders and embroiders it with its woolly material. Like a good sea, it no longer covers its interior geography. » Elisabeth Baillon



Personal exhibitions (summary)

2013 Mac 2000 Salon, Paris
2012 Queen Bérangère Museum, Le Mans (Sarthe)
2012 Mac 2000 Salon, Paris
2011 Costantini Room, Millau (Aveyron)
2007 St Cyprien Cultural Center, Toulouse
2006 Ganges Media Library
2004 Lefor-Openo Gallery, Paris
2000 Fourmies Ecomuseum
1999 Carré St Anne, Montpellier
1994 Poisson d'Or Gallery, Lyon
1987 Agnès Stacke Gallery, Auvers/Oise
Grenier de Villatre
1985 Aurillac Museum
1984 Goya Museum, Castres
1983 Blankenese Gallery, Hamburg
1982 Grüner Panther Gallery, Frankfurt
1980 Brouzes du Larzac
1977 L'Angle Aigu Gallery, Brussels
1969 Horses of the Sun Gallery, Paris
Former Customs House, Strasbourg
Astrée Gallery, St Etienne
1966 Siècle Gallery, Paris
1965 St Dominique Gallery, Lyon
1963 Gallery of the Iron Hand, Perpignan
Art and Christian Traditions Gallery, Paris

Group exhibitions

2006 Contemporary Art Center of Beaulieu Abbey
2004 Ingres Museum, Montauban
2000 Sylvanès Abbey
1999 Argo Gallery Knokke-le-Zoot (Belgium)
1999 Seneffe Castle (Belgium)
1988 Contemporary French textile art, Tokio
1981 Linz Biennial
1979 Paris City Hall
1977 Museums of Annecy, Calais, Angers, Mulhouse, Brussels
Cantini Museum, Marseille
Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
1976 Ingres Museum, Montauban
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
1970 Vocation Foundation, ORTF House
1969 Contemporary Christian Art Gallery, New York
Gallery III, Charlottesville (Virginia)
1967 Montreal International Exhibition
1966 Hôtel de Sens, Paris
1963 Sacred Art Salon, Paris

Public orders

2005 Stained glass, in collaboration with Claude Baillon, Church of La Couvertoirade (12)
1995 River map of Lozère, General Council, Mende (2.15 x 1.64 m)
Embroidered binding, Pleated Deserts by Jean Tardieu, National Library
1994 Triptych , Rodez Town Hall (6.30 x 3.50 m)
1979 1% in Rodez, Baraqueville, Villefranche de Rouergue, Millau
1978 The Resurrection, St Joseph Church, Béziers (6 x 3m)
1967 The history of oil and of Bearn. Five hangings (2.50 x 7 m) for the Société Nationale des Pétroles d'Aquitaine, Pau
1963 The life of St Corbinien, church of St Germain les Arpajon (1 x 10 m)


Price

1963 Foundation of the Vocation


Film

1977 The enclosure, short film in 35 mm by Pierre Pommier

$900 - $1,500

Fine Art, Other

18%

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