Barbara d'Antuono
Paris From June 2, 2022 to July 13, 2022
Strange, mischievous and disturbing creatures besiege my mind.
They seem determined.
I let them guide my gestures, mechanical with a repetitive, hypnotic, cadenced rhythm:
Scissors, threads, needles, seams, sutures, overlays, repairs...
They are embodied in the moment creating their story and tracing their way on the cotton weft.
I don't know if it's me who pulls the strings or they who lead the dance.
They tell of journeys without return, they speak of distant lands, of what unites us and what separates us, of our demons and our gods, of our sorrows, and of other possible shores.
They are my inner chaos, my reflection in the mirror, the sum of all my fears, my doubts and my hopes...
....the creatures of the mined lands...."
Barbara d'Antuono, May 2022.
Sewing by hand like others recite mantras and deciding nothing in advance, Barbara d'Antuono lets images emerge without any particular coherence with each other, but to which she gives shape in a kind of urgency. Her meeting in Haiti with Baron Samedi and the mythology linked to voodoo, as well as the traumatic splashes of the 1986 coup d'etat and the abuses she witnessed, precipitated her into a need to say the unspeakable:
“Sewing, suturing, closing these wounds, grafting one fabric onto another, but also “embroidering” to give meaning, sometimes to testify to my deep desire to bring together the two cultures that inhabit me”.
Globe-trotter, she nourishes her work with her travels, particularly in Africa where she finds voodoo and on the slopes of all the volcanoes of the world. Creator of imagination, she gives birth under her fingers to a jubilant, dreamlike, ironic, carnivalesque and sometimes naive world. Impregnated with this delicious mixture all his work condenses in a flamboyant baroque syncretism, where humor is never far away and Haiti always present.
Corsican of Italian origin born in 1961, Barbara d'Antuono left France in the 80s for the West Indies and Jamaica. It was in the artistic abundance of Haiti, where she stayed for 5 years, that she learned about painting and sculpture, notably in the studio of the Haitian painter Ronald Mevs. The magic, her inner demons and the aesthetics of her work as a visual artist are revealed to her. She began her artistic career with assemblages of wood and bone, collages, totems, fetishes... Babette El Saieh, daughter of the great collector Issa El Saieh, gave her her first chance to exhibit at the Olofson hotel in Port au Prince. After several exhibitions in Haiti, she left the island following the 1986 coup. Back in France, she developed her own technique combining sculpture, painting, graphics, sewing, poetry and music.
From 1995, she exhibited regularly in Paris, Germany... She participated in several group exhibitions, including one in tribute to Wilfredo Lam at Unesco. Recognized by the Art Factory and Art de Rien galleries, she has exhibited several times at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien as well as at the Chapelle du Collège de Carpentras.
In 2014, she presented a few magnetic paintings, textile paintings and fetish dolls in the group exhibition Follow my gaze, which marked the birth certificate of The eye of the bearded woman. After a first exhibition at the Claire Corcia gallery in 2019 entitled "Outsider art III", then a second in 2021 with the exhibition "Vagabond spirits" at the Claire Corcia gallery in collaboration with L'œil de la femme à beard, here is his third exhibition “Creatures of mined lands” at the Galerie Claire Corcia, in collaboration with L'œil de la femme à beard.
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323 rue Saint Martin
75003, Paris
France
06 62 84 03 74
Details
Pensées chaotiques et autres perturbations cérébrales
Barbara d'Antuono
Painting - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$3,126
Pensées chaotiques et autres dérives métonymiques
Barbara d'Antuono
Painting - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$3,126
Pensées chaotiques et autres divagations décousues
Barbara d'Antuono
Painting - 68 x 104 x 5 cm Painting - 26.8 x 40.9 x 2 inch
Sold
Journal d'un confinement ni fait ni à faire
Barbara d'Antuono
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$5,916
Barbara d'Antuono
France
Exhibitions in Paris
Galerie Art Jingle
Solo Show - Yrak 2024
From April 23, 2024 to June 14, 2024
H.D Galerie
Urban art fair 2024 x H.D galerie / solo show Rafael sliks
From April 24, 2024 to April 27, 2024
Art Field
SOMEBODY
From April 23, 2024 to April 28, 2024
Galerie Art Jingle
Mathieu Piffeteau, nouvelle exposition
From March 18, 2024 to April 22, 2024
Galerie Claire Corcia
Iranian servants and their fantasy world
From February 24, 2024 to March 18, 2024
Galerie Art Jingle
Nebay 2024
From February 28, 2024 to March 28, 2024
Art Abstrait Safia WOSTH
Galerie Libre Est L'Art
From February 16, 2024 to February 26, 2024
La Galerie d'art du Studio Idan
Beyond Dreams by Brooke Shaden
From March 11, 2024 to May 13, 2024
193 Gallery
Memory of the World
From January 3, 2024 to February 21, 2024
193 Gallery
Interlaces
From January 3, 2024 to February 23, 2024