Contact: Line Bonnef, 279 chemin de la Font du Midi, 83136 Neoules, France
Tel: +33 (0) 4 94 72 77 56 / + 33 (0) 6 20 32 63 09 Email: bonnef.line@wanadoo.fr
Studio visits by appointment
Contact in Switzerland: artnet.ch – Christiane Franquin, 1268 Begnins, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 22 366 42 22 / +41 (0) 76 521 50 60 Email: info@artnet.ch
Biography
For many years, I danced (ballet and modern dance) at a near-professional level.
Later, my studies of the history of art led to an abiding interest in sculpture. The people I chanced to meet and my move to Provence combined to give me an opportunity to practise this art.
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I subsequently spent seven years training in a sculptor’s studio in Marseilles, familiarising myself with a great variety of materials and techniques, which today provide me with true creative freedom.
When in the process of creating, you delve deeply into yourself to rediscover buried emotions, memories or experiences you have completely forgotten. So, something had to attract me to movement in sculpture. And when I discovered contemporary calligraphy, I knew that this was it, that I could express it.
I particularly admired the shapes that the calligrapher Hassan Massoudy outlined so freely with his gestures; he had acquired the art of creating volumes by moving his hands in what seemed a subtle range of colours and shadows. Everything is movement, shape and meaning.
Drawing inspiration from Massoudy’s aerial calligraphies and rearranging them in three dimensions, I created the “KALLI” series.
These sculptures draw kinetic, harmonious lines in space, proceeding from an empty to a full space, always according to a musical rhythm.
Movement is present, at the same time rooted to the ground and stretching towards the sky, in an uncertain, open and fragile balance.
Like Mozart “who sought notes that went together”, I seek lines in harmony with one another.
The KALLIs’ shaped metal framework supports glass fabric and polyester resin forms. Resin gives the sculptures their solidity while ensuring their light weight.
These works are at home both indoors and in a garden, where they fit perfectly with the vegetation.
They usually feature a base which can be removed to facilitate transport.
* In Hindi, the word “Kalli” means “moving poem”.
Exhibitions – France
- LA SEYNE SUR MER, Galerie du Bosphore, Festival des Arts Croisés
- VENTABREN, IIe Biennale Internationale, Calligraphies et Ecritures du Monde
- LA SEYNE SUR MER, Galerie des Arts Contemporains
- CANNES , XIe Grand Prix International du Monde des Arts
- PERPIGNAN, Salon International des Arts Plastiques
- TOULON, Concours des Arts
- PARIS , XIIIe Concours International des Arts Plastiques, Centre Ch. Peugeot
- LA SEYNE SUR MER, Forum de la Sculpture
- NICE, Exposition dans le Parc Phoenix, avec le groupe Abstrax
- SAINT- TROPEZ, Ambassade du Tourisme, Rencontre d’Art Sémiotique
- GRIMAUD, XIIe Salon de Peinture et de Sculpture
- HYERES, Forum du Casino, Salon de la Sculpture
- TOULON, Galerie du Four à Pain
- MARSEILLE, Salon du Palais Longchamp
Awards
- Médaille d’Argent : Cannes – XIe Grand Prix International du Monde des Arts
- Prix de l’Expression Artistique : Toulon – Concours des Arts
- Mention Spéciale : Paris – Centre Christiane Peugeot
