Agathe de Bailliencourt is a French artist born in Paris in 1974. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
Her work features on paper and canvas, as well as directly applied to walls & architecture. Agathe attempt to show a total sincerity towards herself, which includes the part of incidence, fate, error in the passing of life. Her art answers the need to accept how things really are and the fact that perfection does not exist in humankind. She utilizes disorder, spontaneity and urgency to attain a freedom untainted by reasoning and restraint. Agathe's drawings and paintings are built spontaneously, upon the process of leaving marks, such as hand-writing, drawn patterns or large burst of primary colors.
Over the years, Agathe has been seeking to expand beyond her initial framed medium of paper or canvas. For the Singapore Biennale 2006, she painted on the entire surface of a three dimensional space, achieving a new sense of freedom. In Indonesia for the French cultural center, she went a step further and painted directly on a crossroad in Yogyakarta. In Berlin, she’s participated in the 48-Stunden Neukölln festival with "La vie en rose", a giant pink painting installation in the courtyard of a building. At the same period, she was part of the "Backjumps Live Issue #3" exhibition where she ‘s painted directly on the pavement of Karl Marx Allee, in front of the Gallery Tristesse deluxe.
Agathe's work is represented by Galerie Catherine et Andre Hug in Paris and Taksu Gallery in Singapore and Malaysia.
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