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Béatrice Bissara has lived in the world of art since she was born. Her childhood spent in museums, flea markets and the atmosphere of auction rooms with her father, a classical art connoisseur, forged her taste for classical beauty.
Yet, though she never left that familiar world far behind, it took her several years to discover her creative vocation.
After studying finance and management, political science and the history of art, she went to work for a modern art dealer and then began appraising old pictures, especially from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at Sotheby's.
Being thoroughly trained in the History of Art but self-taught in practice, she did not begin painting and sculpting until 2000, without forsaking her 10-year-old interest in wet-plate photographs developed primarily in black and white.
Her passion for volume and color even prompted her to take evening stylism courses at the Chamber de Couture and modeling courses at the Rose Bertin High School in Paris.
In that period she frequented the ADAC (City of Paris) and other studios in search of a teacher of the art of design, painting or sculpture. But she wound up learning her craft "on the job" by working with models and by means of meetings which had a decisive impact on her vocation.
Her meeting with the sculptor Petrus, who devotes himself almost entirely to stone-carving in his studio in the Bastille district of Paris, initiated her into anatomy and measurement.
She has been exhibiting since 2002 in galleries and shows, including the Independent Artists' Shows.
Now concentrating on sculpture in bronze and sometimes transparent resin, she pursues her quest for beauty, balance and harmony of bodies, faces and souls in figurative art.
Still desirous of giving her work a spiritual dimension, she is working on a set of sculptures revisiting the faces of biblical characters.
Marie Deparis
BEATRICE BISSARA
Born on June 26th, 1972
beatrice@bissara.com N° siret : 50345424100012
+ 33 (0)6-13-35-10-04
WORK EXPERIENCE
Self-taught sculptor since 2002 :
Has worked during 8 months in the studio of the sculptor Petrus in Bastille (Paris)
Has worked frequently between 2002 and 2004 in some studios of Paris’s city (pastel with Laurent Guiré, workshop on nude and alive model) ... Works since 2005 in her studio in Saint-Maur des Fossés (near Paris)
Presentation of her work :
Figurative inspiration on feminine nude, portrait and bust
Works focused on 5 themes: « a star is born », « reflecting the soul », « awakening of feminity »,
« the eternal east », « meditation », « inner beauty »
Materials of preference : clay, plaster, composite, bronze
Sizes : any sizes, life-size, possibility of very big sizes
Previous work experience :
1999-2000 : Sotheby’s Paris, expertise of paintings from XVIth to XVIIIth century.
1998 : Gallery Gianna Sistu, Paris (impressionistic and modern painting), assistant of the gallery owner
Follow-up of the clientele , work of sale and brokerage on the international stage
1997 : Assistant of Laurence de Beaufort, expert on modern and contemporary painting
Preparation of expertise, preparation and follow-up of the sales at Drouot Richelieu
Assistant for the expertise cabinet Eric Turquin S.A
Authentification of paintings, filing, cataloguing
UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME
1997 : University of Paris IV Sorbonne, Master Degree of History of Art and Archaeology, grade B Pass
Specialisation XVII-XVIIIth centuries –Report followed by the professor Schnapper « The work of Nicolas de Nicolay and the diffusion of the image of the Ottoman Empire in the French art from 1550 till 1680 »
License of Art history and Archaeology: arts of the Modern West, medieval Art of West, Archaeology and Art history Greek .
1995 : University Paris I Sorbonne, Master Degree of Political Communication, mention Assez Bien
Report followed by the professor Jambar : « The laborious birth of a political communication on AIDS »
1994 : University Paris IX Dauphine, Studies of the sciences of management (specialisation international finance)
Evening class Rachel Boyer, Ecole du Louvre, Paris
EXHIBITIONS
2011 :
Galerie Rocha, Barbizon
Galerie Frédéric Got Fine Art, Paris
Galerie Frédéric Got Fine Art, Saint-Paul de Vence
Galerie Marie-Christine Grulier, Avignon
Galerie Marie-Christine Grulier, Courchevel
Gallery Beshara, Atlanta
Galerie Saint Martin, Brive la Gaillarde, Arcachon, Saint Jean de Luz
Next Galerie, Toulouse
Galerie des Beaux Arts, Heeze, Hollande
Kunst & Antiek Weekend, Naarden
Palm Beach, Jewelry, Art & Antique Show, February
Sofa New-York, Park Avenue Armory, April 16-19
Art & Antique Fair, Hertogenbosch, 18 au 25 avril, Hollande
2010 :
Gallery Rocha, Barbizon
Gallery Frédéric Got Fine Art, Paris,
Gallery Frédéric Got Fine Art, Saint-Paul de Vence
Gallery Marie-Christine Grulier, Avignon
Gallery Marie-Christine Grulier, Courchevel
Gallery Beshara, Atlanta
Gallery L’Ermitage, Le Touquet
Gallery du Château, Auray
Gallery Saint-Martin, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Arcachon
Gallery Hoche, Versailles
Palm Beach, Jewelry, Art & Antique Show, February
Sofa New-York, Park Avenue Armory, April 16-19
Gallery des Beaux Arts, Heeze, Nederland
Art & Antique Fair, April 18-15, Hertogenbosch, Nederland
Gallery Egregore, Lyon
2009 :
Gallery Rocha, Barbizon
Gallery Frédéric Got Fine Art, Paris
Gallery Frédéric Got Fine Art, Saint-Paul de Vence
Gallery Marie-Christine Grulier, Avignon
Gallery Marie-Christine Grulier, Courchevel
Gallery Beshara, Atlanta
Gallery L’Ermitage, Le Touquet
Gallery du Château, Auray
Gallery Saint-Martin, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Arcachon
2008 :
Gallery Rocha, Barbizon
Gallery Frédéric Got Fine Art, Paris
Gallery Frédéric Got Fine Art, Saint-Paul de Vence
Grand Palais, Paris, Art en Capital, Salon des Artistes Français
2007 :
Gallery Castiglione, Paris
Gallery Rocha, Barbizon
Chicago SOFA Show
New York Sofa Show
Miami Art Show
Washington Art DC Show
Grand Palais, Paris, Art en Capital, Salon des Artistes Français
Carrousel du Louvre, SNBA
2006 :
Gallery Frédéric Got Fine Art, Paris
Chicago Sofa Show
Miami Art Show
Carrousel du Louvre, SNBA
Espace Châtelet, Salon Violet
Grand Palais, Paris, Art en Capital, Salon des Artistes Français
Collective exhibition, New York, Waldorf Astoria & Beverly Hills
Salon des Indépendants, Espace Champerret
Private collections :
France
United States
Private orders:
France
Member of the foundation Taylor