Anne Rochette
Anne Rochette : écarts, Espace d’art contemporain Camille Lambert, Juvisy-sur-Orge (November – December 2012)
→Anne Rochette : une jour après l’autre, Maison de la culture d’Amiens (March – Mai 2002)
Olivier Kaeppelin, Claude Jean, Sandrine Mahieu et Agnès Desarthe, Anne Rochette : Pierres galantes [publication à l’occasion de la commande publique à Dives (Oise)], Paris, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Délégation aux arts plastiques, 2008
→Anne Rochette, (Entre), exh. cat., Maison d’art contemporain Chaillioux, Fresnes (May – July 1995), Galerie J. Rabouan-Moussion, Paris (August – September 1995) et Musée des beaux-arts, Le Quai… de Mulhouse (March – April 1996), Mulhouse, Le quai, 1996
→Joan Simon et Philippe Cyroulnik, Anne Rochette, exh. cat., École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (April – May 1994), Paris, Ensb-a, 1994
Anne Rochette | L'atelier A
French sculptor.
This artist, who focuses primarily on sculpture and drawing, has a unique place in the field of French art. After studying and working in New York, Anne Rochette pursued her formal and aesthetic research in France. Very quickly the universe created by the ensemble of her sculptures became the occasion to evoke a troubling memory and each of her pieces – places of echoes and dialogue with the environment – are reminiscences of it. Since the end of the 1980s her travels to China, India and Australia have played a significant role in her imagination: poetically resonant works born from these intuitive encounters invite the viewer to contemplate a new reality and to connect their story to that of the earth and humanity. After these journeys, she discovered new artistic practices and experimented with different ceramic techniques. In this vegetal and mineral universe, her ring and bulb sculptures transformed into elliptical and organic forms, and her ceramics mutated into amorphous and troubling bodies.
Amongst various public commissions she received is Comptine (2000), composed of four small polychrome bronze sculptures including a central fountain and a mushroom which are placed between the flowerbeds of a vegetable garden in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. The ensemble recalls the tale of Alice and Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. She also created a group of six sculptures for the region of Picardy, Pierres galantes, composed of carved Mello limestone. In contrast to the troubling atmosphere of the vegetable world, the white of the stones in La Goutte d’eau, Le Banquet and Le Banc au collier de perles (Pierres galantes series, 2007) appears as a gentle reminder of earthly immutability. A. Rochette has been teaching at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris since 1993.
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