Isabel COBBI-CALLEN
Contact: Isabel COBBI-CALLEN, rue Marterey 19, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 21 711 22 33 Email: isabel@cobbi.com
Biography
Born in Barcelona, Isabel Cobbi-Callen now lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.
She taught herself painting, working alone for many years before embarking on a full-scale study of engraving in 1993, finally combining the two techniques.
Over the years, Isabel Cobbi-Callen has developed a personal, non figurative artistic idiom incorporating allusions to the past, a variety of signs and traces, fossils and wall fragments.
More
Deftly, subtly, she tears, colors and mixes all sorts of pieces of paper then combines them with printed traces and signs to form collages. Restless research leads to play on the shapes, traces and colors she invents, wedding her chosen materials to engraving, painting and coloring techniques. Imaginative virtuosity guides her hand as she engraves and inks copper plates until textures and materials, colors and shapes come together in an intuitive artistic exploration that, in manner and style, pays tribute to her native Catalonia.
Exhibitions
- 1996 – Forum de l’Hôtel de Ville, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1996 Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1997 Ecole d’études sociales et pédagogiques, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1998 Miniprint International de Cadaques, Spain
- 1998 Ateliers sylvagnins, Savagnier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 1998 Galerie Collis, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1999 Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1999 Galerie du Castel du Bois-Genoud, Crissier, Vaud, Switzerland
- 1999 Bobst-Foilmaster Forum, Prilly, Vaud, Switzerland
- 1999 Miniprint International de Cadaques, Spain
- 1999 Galerie Cour St-Pierre, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2000 Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2001 Galerie Farel, Aigle, Vaud, Switzerland
- 2002 Fondation Saner, Studen, Bern, Switzerland
- 2003 Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2004 Galerie Allegri, Gstaad, Bern, Switzerland
- 2005 Galerie Arfi, St-Sulpice, Vaud, Switzerland
- 2005 Miniprint International de Cadaques, Spain
- 2005 Galerie 2016, Hauterive, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 2005 Villa Dutoit, Genève, Switzerland
- 2006 Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2006 Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006 Musée de Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
- 2007 Espace culturel, Assens, Vaud, Switzerland
- 2008 Musée Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2009 Espace Artnet, Begnins, Suisse
- 2010 Galerie Catherine Niederhauser, Lausanne, Suisse
