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The missing piece
CELESTE BOLLACK
AVM Gallery
Contemporary Art Paris
Since its founding in 1991, the AVM contemporary art gallery has always supported the work of artists who do not submit to the dictates of trends or the market.
Céleste Bollack exhibits "The Missing Piece"...
not to be missed!
All exhibitions
From September 8 to October 2, the AVM Gallery presents "The Missing Piece," engravings and collages by Céleste Bollack, an event that marks her return to solo exhibitions, highlights her talent as an engraver, and at the same time celebrates ten years of continuous collaboration with her gallery.
More than thirty works on the theme of the missing piece, a void, a hollow in us, in our life, this absence from our puzzle with which to compose, and which, also, constitutes us.
This theme fits very coherently into Bollack's work, which has never ceased to transcribe onto canvas or paper, from the deepest black of the engravings to the vibrant colors of the paintings, the strangeness of a daily life populated by herself and her loved ones, familiar and unfathomable figures, where everyone can nevertheless perceive the reflection of their own humanity, their fragility.
Nicole Coudert
"It's a man from behind walking on a railway track, it's a child sleeping, a man in the shower, a woman in front of her library. Each of them, in their life, in their being, has a hole, a lack, a void with which they must come to terms. It's the missing piece. In her engravings, Céleste Bollack symbolizes it with a puzzle piece. The artist thus marks her characters with a hot iron and in a single movement frees them and shows us the way. For the missing piece rubs shoulders with others and, in an improbable way, assembles with them. Then, the unexpected and the magic emerge. It's a patchwork of red and mauve flowers that enhances the black of a life and a face that is too smooth, it's the blue of a night of dreams carried by birds that transcends a destiny. The missing piece becomes master and illuminates our lives."
Emilie Lançon
"A bathroom of opposing waves... Entering this room every morning means, along with your clothes, throwing away all your pretenses and agreeing to look at yourself in the face. Naked, in front of this uncompromising mirror, magnifying at will our pride and our shortcomings. Planted as an offered and resigned prey in front of this portrait of us, framed like a slide, we always end up thinking about that little something that is missing from our image!
ļ»æThis missing and central piece, which we imagine becoming more and more significant as elixirs of youth and the razor blade glide over still docile skin, is the unfinished, the botched, missed appointments... and life passing by to the rhythm of its imperfections... it is also: "how much longer to make up for it?" The hope that is reborn when a pleasing face then appears. Us in a better way, hairless, made up, restored, revealed, who knows? Then what was missing becomes a trophy, unsuspected beauty... in this foggy mirror... the singularity that we were missing.
Marie Micouleau-Masuyer
Biography
Born in 1971 in Paris, Céleste was influenced by her mother, Sofi Bollack-Klarwein, who was also a painter. Céleste grew up in a melting pot of intellectual and pictorial influences. Colors, brushstrokes, the bohemian lifestyle in a pretty Parisian neighborhood, and freedom of expression fueled Céleste's heart, a little girl who was already extraordinary and drew full-time.
She entered the Beaux-Arts in 1994, in 1996 she was at the Royal College of Art in London then at the Staede Schule in Frankfurt, in 1997 at the Athens School of Art. Her first exhibition took place in 1998 at the L'oeil du 8 gallery. Her meeting with the gallery owner Georges Detais was decisive for the rest of her career. Part of the Narrative Figuration movement, she exhibited in the French capital as well as in London, Stockholm and Zurich, winning the enthusiasm of her first collectors and making people talk about her.
ļ»æThe exhibitions of paintings will follow one another in France, Switzerland and even in Pondicherry (Kalinka Gallery) without Céleste forgetting to exercise her talent in engraving, collage, works on paper which always reflect this same creative universe, a sort of personal diary in which she appears as well as those close to her, sometimes droll, joyful or melancholic, resonance of all her emotions.
The year 2012 marked the beginning of her collaboration with the AVM Gallery, which represents her permanently.
Epersonal exhibitions
2019 — The other's share, Galerie Six Elzévir, Paris
2017 — Galerie Six Elzévir, Paris
2017 — The Chapel of Saint Sauveur, Issy les Moulineaux
2016 — Galerie Six Elzévir, Paris
2016 — Kalinka Gallery, Pondicherry
2012 — «Bollack at Bollag » Bollack Galleries at Livingcase, Zurich
2012 — “Alice, Frida, Jeanne and the others “, seen by Céleste, AVM Gallery, Paris
2011 — L'Oeil du Prince Gallery, Paris
2009 — Minsky Gallery, Paris
2008 — Quai Est Gallery
2007 — Céleste BOLLACK, The Carmel — Tarbes
A Christmas with Léontine, Calesta Kidstore — Paris
2006 — Léontine’s Dream Life, Purée Jambon Kidstore — Paris
2005 — Bollack at Bollag, Bollag Galleries — Zurich
2002 — Bollack at Bollag, Bollag Galleries — Zurich
2001 — Leontine 2001, Galerie GeorgesDetais — Paris
2000 — Celeste Bollack, Art in Stalls Gallery — Pouzac (Bagnères-de-Bigorre)
Léontine on the run, Tadros Gallery — Paris
1999 — Celeste Bollack, D-Suite Gallery — London
1998 — Celestial Creatures, Studio Angel's — Paris
Céleste Bollack exhibits herself, l'oeildu8 gallery — Paris
Expositions collectives
2022 — Black and White, AVM Gallery, Paris
2022 — Print Days, Paris
2021 — Print Days, Paris
2019 — Spring Collective, AVM Gallery, Paris
2019 — Print Days, Paris
2018 — The "Great" War, in duet with Hortense Godfroy, Galerie AVM
2017 — Party collective, AVM Gallery, Paris
2015 —
Ouch, that color!, AVM Gallery, Paris
2007:
Bollag Galleries — Zurich
A taste of vacation, at Marie-Claude Le Floc'h's (private workshop) — Neuilly-sur-Seine
Alice in Wonderland, Atelier Oz, Virginie Boissière — Paris
2005:
Dangerous Girls, Studio Angel's — Paris
Around the Georges Detais collection, The Carmel — Tarbes
Around the Georges Detais collection, Art in Stalls Gallery — Pouzac (Bagnères-de-Bigorre)
2004:
Galerie W. Eric Landau — Paris
Reserves are deployed, Art in Stalls Gallery — Pouzac (Bagnères-de-Bigorre)
Maremonti, Bollag Galleries — Zurich
2003:
Portraits, Art in Stalls Gallery — Pouzac (Bagnères-de-Bigorre)
Galerie W. Eric Landau — Paris
2000:
Celeste Bollack and Tord lager, Mowestor Gallery — Stockholm
Architecture in the plural, Art in Stalls Gallery — Pouzac (Bagnères-de-Bigorre)
2000 in bloom, Art in Stalls Gallery — Pouzac (Bagnères-de-Bigorre)
1999 — Angel's, Studio Angel's — Paris
1997 — Creator's studio — Deauville
1994 —
New York—Paris, Maui's Most Exciting Gallery — Island of Maui (Hawaii)
