Turtle

Artist
Géraldine Beigbeder
Turtle (2005) Mixed media (oil pastel, pigment, collage)
  • Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm
  • Framing : No
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Aditional Information
Period Contemporary (1945-today)

The vermilion red background and fuchsia tones give a sophisticated side to the surrealist subjects and makes one think of the cobra current.

The mobile collages give a contemporary look.

Old contemporary work in excellent condition, found in the workshop during the lockdown.

Artist Biography

Profession : Writer, screenwriter, director, visual artist and curator of exhibitions of British rock stars Peter Doherty, Norman Reedus and Robert Farber.

BIOGRAPHY

Origins

Géraldine Beigbeder was born into a family of Bearnaise origin that founded a consortium of clinics. Her father Gérald Beigbeder is half American by his mother, descendant of one of the presidents of the United States John Adams. Geraldine Beigbeder's mother, Katarina Veljkovic, is Serbian.

Her brother Eduard Beigbeder is an ambassador to UNICEF. She is the first cousin of Frédéric Beigbeder, also a writer, and of Charles Beigbeder, a businessman and politician, founder of the online brokerage company Selftrade, then of the Poweo company.

Education and background

She spent her childhood in the privileged setting of Villa Navarre, the family home of her grandfather Charles Beigbeder. A man of letters, he introduced her to literature. Jean Cocteau, the poet Jean Paul Toulet, Colette the writer, the musician Maurice Ravel, the philosopher Gabriel Marcel and many other intellectuals and artists are close to her grandfather and have spent or have spent time in the family home.

At the age of 13, a precocious pupil, she left her home in Villa Navarre and the Béarn region and moved to Paris. After a baccalaureate in classical literature, she defended a master's degree in history before Jean Tulard at the Sorbonne Paris IV and obtained a very good mention with congratulations from the jury for her thesis mixing history and cinema and focusing on the Italy of the Risorgimento seen through two films Senso and Visconti's Cheetah.

At the same time she enrolled in the Florent course with her friend Edouard Baer and found herself in Isabelle Nanty's class. In order to pay for the classes she will be an intern and then second assistant director on many feature films such as those by Fabien Onteniente, Luc Besson, Claude Lelouch and Jean Paul Lilienfeld.

She then began a career as a screenwriter with Jean-Luc Azoulay and she wrote numerous sitcoms for TF1, France 2 and M6. She also worked as a reader and scriptwriter - doctor at Gaumont on first feature films with Sidonie Seydoux.

With her companion, the plastic artist Alain Lame, she directed a short film entitled Une famille à bon prix with the actor Philippe Nahon and a medium-length film Belgrade, un allez- simple.

She exhibits her first works, collages, at the Antoine Laurentin gallery in the free expression movement which also brings together artists such as Kriki and Francois Boisrond.

She meets Victor Maymudes in Los Angeles, one of the creators of Woodstock, Bob Dylan's road manager and producer of music bands. She met actor-director and painter Dennis Hopper and actor John Voight and frequented many personalities of the rock and roll and Underground art scene. She co-wrote a film script with Victor Maymudes about the wandering of two marginalized people through the United States, who are prey to illicit substances.

In 2007 she published her first novel Sponsors with Ramsay Publishing about post-communist Yugoslavia, the story of the Veljkovic House, the family home of her mother née Veljkovic, a descendant of Knez- Prince Hajduk, and the story of a fantastic film shoot sponsored by mafia and a producer who is a fan of Hedy Lamarr. The novel, which describes the situation in the countries of the former communist bloc, will be translated into Russia and Croatia. She also becomes a publisher at Ramsay Publishing.

In 2011, she publishes Larguée en périphérie de la zone politique et autres petits désordres organiques (Larguée on the periphery of the political zone and other small organic disorders) with the Albin Michel publishing house. A funny and sharp criticism of the society of the image and politics as a society of the spectacle. Her novel, which takes up the same themes as those of Russell Brand, is currently being translated in England.

In 2013 she meets rock star Peter Doherty in London and becomes the curator of his painting exhibitions in Europe, notably in Paris, Geneva and Barcelona. The vernissages are real happenings mixing paintings and concerts of rock bands such as Spark in particular. She is the curator of the exhibition of Peter Doherty's works at the Rimbaud Museum in 2018.

She created the artistic movement S.N.A.F.U (situation normal all fuck up), an artistic current stemming from free expression with a rock tendency. She makes the official announcement on the radio RTS of Geneva on the program Entre nous soit dit.

She is also the curator of the American star and photographer Norman Reedus known in the series Walking Dead and of the New York photographer Robert Farber whose exhibitions she organizes.

In 2015, she exhibits her ARTEFACT PHONE SKETCHES drawings in Brussels and Paris. Then she makes ART BASEL MIAMI.

October 2016: her drawings are exhibited at the Yia fair in Paris.

June 2017: YIA fair in Brussels.

June 2018: Frame Art Fair/Art Basel Basel then Artbasel Miami. Hotel Sagamore.

January 2019 : The Visitors exhibition first edition of Frieze Los Angeles.

April 2019: Frame Art Basel

Exhibition Pelagos Project Kardamili

At the confluence of two rivers, Pelagos Project 7th Town Hall

Exhibition Gallery of Bellechasse

November 2019: Artbasel Miami, Frame Art

March 2020: Exhibition Basel Art Center

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