Fossils Dance: French Artist Delphine Courtillot?s Sculptural Masterpiece
Artist Delphine Courtillot seeks to reconnect her viewers to the primitive state of our human nature.
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You were born in Paris and studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver and at the Ecole Nationale Supeìrieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. You now live and work in Amsterdam. Can you tell us about how you started out as an artist"
After my graduation from art school in Paris, I shared a studio with three artist friends in a big old warehouse in an artistic suburb of Paris ? it was very exciting and scary at the same time. At night, I worked as a bartender in an American bar and in the day I worked hard to develop my artwork.
In Paris, at that time it was not easy to get into the art world, so I organised shows with friends where we could showcase and sell our work.
Then I met my boyfriend, the Dutch artist Folkert de Jong, and I moved for love to Amsterdam. The art scene there, thankfully, was much more open. A lot of artists ran spaces and provided opportunities for young artists like myself. We moved to New York City shortly after, and that was where we lived and worked for a time.
The city was amazing! I got in touch with curators and galleries, and I was greatly inspired by the art scene there. To work with two galleries in Los Angeles and New York was a real breakthrough in my career. After that, I travelled ...
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You were born in Paris and studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver and at the Ecole Nationale Supeìrieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. You now live and work in Amsterdam. Can you tell us about how you started out as an artist"
After my graduation from art school in Paris, I shared a studio with three artist friends in a big old warehouse in an artistic suburb of Paris ? it was very exciting and scary at the same time. At night, I worked as a bartender in an American bar and in the day I worked hard to develop my artwork.
In Paris, at that time it was not easy to get into the art world, so I organised shows with friends where we could showcase and sell our work.
Then I met my boyfriend, the Dutch artist Folkert de Jong, and I moved for love to Amsterdam. The art scene there, thankfully, was much more open. A lot of artists ran spaces and provided opportunities for young artists like myself. We moved to New York City shortly after, and that was where we lived and worked for a time.
The city was amazing! I got in touch with curators and galleries, and I was greatly inspired by the art scene there. To work with two galleries in Los Angeles and New York was a real breakthrough in my career. After that, I travelled ...
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