Monique Orsini was born in 1937, in Quercitello, Corsica, to parents who were teachers. Monique was raised in French Algeria. Her father dedicated his spare time to painting, delighting himself notably by reproducing the works of famous artists. From a very tender childhood, the young girl was naturally attracted by the visual arts, encouraged by a fatherly complicity at every instance.
Monique Orsini is mostly self-taught.
Monique participated in numerous artistic training courses, and came into contact with art in general, galleries and museums in particular. This environment became indispensible to her. Monique has been an artist for more than 45 years. Backed by her self declared status, Monique Orsini later taught many artistic disciplines and this lead to numerous workshops for children. The artist gained a lot from these teacher-student experiences, immersing her students in the syntax of her own creative vocabulary.
The circumstances of her life as an artist allowed her meet and rub shoulders with artists such as Karel Appel, Kijno, Chu The-Chn, Olivier Debré, Bram Van Velde, Hertung ou Pierre Soulages and Pierre Gastaud. Bent Lindstrom has a particular place, as a Swedish artist with whom she will exhibit many times in Sweden, a supporting force, and will push her to show her work.
For both canvas and paper, Monique Orsini most often works on a series, making it her principle task to paint in order to help people live, proposing to communicate the same source of transcendent emotions. Her works is the informal world. Beyond group exhibitions in which the artist has taken part, and numerous solo exhibitions in France and abroad – notably in Sweden, the Far East, Japen and Istanbul – have marked, over time, the artistique journey of Monique Orsini. The artist currently lives and works near Paris.
Shangaï
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Volcanic lands
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Composition VIII
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Composition III
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Composition I
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Composition VII
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Noir d'ivoire IV
Noir d'ivoire III
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Silence vert
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Noir d'ivoire I
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Shangaï
Noir d'ivoire II
Flowered flavor
Composition II
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The painting of Monique Orsini is informal, but does not break with the real and its hidden riches, which has nourished French painting from Hartung to Debre via Bazaine. Sensible perception plays an important role in her engagement, which is receptive to wonderment, and its power of inspiration. The work comes to the artist in a twofold movement of accomplishment and transcendence.
