Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine
1 artwork(s)A multi-talented artist, Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine is a writer, singer-songwriter and painter. This artistic multi-disciplinarity is initially the fruit of an education valuing creativity and then of an exceptional path, from Sciences PO Paris to HEC, through the Choir of Radio France.
If a great number of stage performances at the Folies Bergères, at the Zenith and on M6 as well as the publication of the trilogy « Les Brumes de Grandville » and the novel « De Poudre, de Cendre et d'Or » have revealed the artist, it is in painting that Gwendoline emancipates herself. Self-taught, the artist-painter invents a technique with Chinese ink, halfway between graffiti and calligraphy, which she calls « caviar ink ». This intimate form of expression, which has become Gwendoline's trademark, is inspired by the Cubist and Surrealist movements, by the artists Man Ray and Akinori Haga, by African art, and by the 1920s, while retaining its originality by drawing on the artist's musical and literary background.
Convinced that hyper-creativity knows no boundaries, Gwendoline has multiplied unconventional projects by trying her hand at Urban Art over the past two years. The artist realised the monumental fresco « Hold On! » on the wall of the Sorbonne University in collaboration with the association Arsso which fights against student precariousness. She was selected to paint a 3.5m high tank designed by Philippe Stack in the Carmes Haut-Brion cellar. Gwendoline also created the triptych « Les Ailes d'HEC » for the 140th anniversary of the campus and is back for a very ambitious project paying tribute to Josephine Baker.
She is currently represented by the Ellia Art Gallery in Paris.
A multi-talented artist, Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine is a writer, singer-songwriter and painter. This artistic multi-disciplinarity is initially the fruit of an education valuing creativity and then of an exceptional path, from Sciences PO Paris to HEC, through the Choir of Radio France.
If a great number of stage performances at the Folies Bergères, at the Zenith and on M6 as well as the publication of the trilogy « Les Brumes de Grandville » and the novel « De Poudre, de Cendre et d'Or » have revealed the artist, it is in painting that Gwendoline emancipates herself. Self-taught, the artist-painter invents a technique with Chinese ink, halfway between graffiti and calligraphy, which she calls « caviar ink ». This intimate form of expression, which has become Gwendoline's trademark, is inspired by the Cubist and Surrealist movements, by the artists Man Ray and Akinori Haga, by African art, and by the 1920s, while retaining its originality by drawing on the artist's musical and literary background.
Convinced that hyper-creativity knows no boundaries, Gwendoline has multiplied unconventional projects by trying her hand at Urban Art over the past two years. The artist realised the monumental fresco « Hold On! » on the wall of the Sorbonne University in collaboration with the association Arsso which fights against student precariousness. She was selected to paint a 3.5m high tank designed by Philippe Stack in the Carmes Haut-Brion cellar. Gwendoline also created the triptych « Les Ailes d'HEC » for the 140th anniversary of the campus and is back for a very ambitious project paying tribute to Josephine Baker.
She is currently represented by the Ellia Art Gallery in Paris.
