She says she wants, with her organic forms, to “sow confusion”, “give rise to polysemous interpretations”, “spread ambiguity”. And she succeeds very well, halfway between Bellmer and the dolls of her “a little flabby” by Nathalie Sarraute in Childhoodeven if it remains strictly non-figurative… Chantal Tichit, a graduate in engraving from the Beaux-Arts of Montpellier, then chose the path of textile Art because “it allows us to understand the volume in a complex way”, giving it a density, a materiality undoubtedly nourished by her childhood in Aubrac, with a peasant grandfather who loved carving granite… She was one of some 130 artists to exhibit this year at the Salon des artistes French, the first edition of which was held in 1946, at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (then called the Palais des Beaux-Arts) and which has been defending the cause of abstraction for 78 years. After having occupied the Parc floral de Vincennes for a while, it has returned since 2020 to intra-muros Paris, at the same period as Art Basel Paris, splitting into the left bank (at the Cordeliers convent) and the right bank (Espace Commines) . Chantal Tichit received the prize of Daily Art (among 10 critics’ prizes, from the Art Absolument prize to the Taylor Foundation prize), succeeding Bosnian artist Sladana Matic Trstenjak in 2023.
The Salon des Artistes Français was held from October 17 to 20.
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