(article in Var-Matin, November 5, 2005)

Meet the artist-sculptor Josée-Christine Garnier

Diving in sculpture, Josée-Christine Garnier seems to have always been. Born in Marrakesh, she left her native palm grove at the age of 13 years and moved to Toulon with his family in 1956. Eight years passed, she became a teacher and devoted to training children in pre-elementary school.

But Josée-Christine Garnier has a passion for the arts. She then attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Toulon, where she made a few canvases painted with a knife. Ensuire She puts up a workshop awakening from school The Floran, Toulon before work for a research group at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) on the theme The Image . A job that will make particular reference to the Educational Center of Nice.

In 1998, Josée-Christine Garnier abandons teaching to devote himself to painting with Philip Meyer and sculpture with Marie-Ange Fernandez, always at the Beaux Arts de Toulon. This new mode of expression will transform the artist of Six-Fours. «The sculpture is a moment of intense happiness. I forget my worries and when I arrive at the conclusion of a work is like childbirth, it is a wonder that gives you chills.» Of classical in its infancy, Josée-Christine Garnier worked sandstone, red clay of Aubagne. Gradually, his style while pleasure in refined sensuality. Research movement, volumes, work forms makes it more refined, more daring. «Waiting», «Frivolity» or «Offering» terra cotta patina attest.

A first success in the Salle Lauzet-Ainé in Sanary in 2004 with Maryse Bérisot encourages it to continue. The sculpture festival Carqueiranne (August 2005) and Ollioules (September 2005) confirms it in his choices.

Today, Josée-Christine Garnier combines this love of sculpture, a passion that is not ready to die.

EXPOSITIONS

          * June 2014 : Personal Exhibition (duet with painter Christian Hibon)
             Espace Jules de Greling (Six-Fours les Plages)

          * September 2013 : First Exhibition of Maison des Arts et des Artistes de Provence
             et Méditerranée (La Garde)

          * September 2008: Fourth Exhibition of Sculpture - Espace Pierre Puget (Ollioules)

          * September 2007: Third Exhibition of Sculpture - Espace Pierre Puget (Ollioules)

          * August 2006: Second Exhibition of Sculpture - Espace Pierre Puget (Ollioules)

          * August 2006: Ninth Exhibition of Sculpture - Salle des Fêtes de la Mairie (Carqueiranne)

          * March 2006: Exhibition "Women ... I love you "- Bourse du Travail (La Seyne sur Mer)

          * September 2005: First Exhibition of Sculpture - Espace Pierre Puget (Ollioules)

          * August 2005: Eighth Exhibition of Sculpture - Salle des Fêtes de la Mairie (Carqueiranne)

          * March 2004: Personal Exhibition (duet with painter Maryse Bérisot) - Salle
             Lauzet-Ainé (Sanary)

          * June 2003: Exhibition of artwork VLC - Maison du Patrimoine (Six-Fours les Plages)


(article in Ouest-Var.Info, June 19, 2014)

Sculptures, painting and prints at Espace Jules de Greling

Until June 29, Espace Jules de Greling welcomed Josée-Christine Garnier (sculptures) and Christian Hibon (painting, printmaking, stained glass).
Visitors came to this vernissage in the presence of the director of the Plastics Arts Center Dominique Baviera and the councilors Denis Perrier and the young Stéphanie Cassar.
Denis Perrier has lent himself with humor to the exercise of presentation of the artists. Concerning Josée-Christine Garnier: "This designer who studied the art of painting, drawing and sculpture at the Beaux-Arts of Toulon and La Seyne as a free pupil, has always been sensitive to the first sensuality Of the touch of the earth.It is constantly in search of forms and movements.The human body is frequently at the origin of its inspiration ". Works mastered, oscillating between figurative and abstract. Christian Hibon is a renowned artist, initiator of the association "Artists of Provence and Mediterranean", a company that distinguishes itself in different national and international shows. Painting, prints, stained-glass windows, "the multiplicity of the techniques used have led the plastic artist Gardeen to variants sometimes very surprising". A quality work of an artist mastering his art perfectly.

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