From February 6 to March 3, 2006, the artist decorated the lobby and lounge of the Beau Rivage. Eight works featuring the Nice Carnival and travel diary entries depicting New York by the creator of the “gene glue” float. A condemnation of the excesses of cosmetic surgery inspired by “those women who no longer have a square centimeter of naturalness.”
Virginie works with mixed media with dexterity, she dresses the paper. Forms and colors overlap, collages here and there, a transparent material. The colors expand like our pupil under a white sun. A veil that both covers and unveils, at once modest and immodest. A superimposition of various elements that seem to float by the effect of the draping. The body is refined by the collected memories.
This entrepreneur’s daughter did her early education at Villa Thiole before joining the Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg. In 1993, she won the “Alph’Art” prize in Angoulême. She made a detour to Florida before returning to Nice, where she now lives with her 9-year-old son. “When I announced that I had been selected for the Carnival, there was a burst of joy throughout the house,” she confides. But before becoming the first woman to create a float, she had time to gather her inspiration from the four corners of the world… Istanbul, Bollywood, Beijing, Dakar… From travel diaries (including one in collaboration with Richard Borhinger on Saint Louis of Senegal) to exhibitions, press illustrations to satirical drawings, Virginie has built a solid reputation as a societal observer.
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