Biography
Fabienne Verdier’s artistic path has been marked by encounters with systems of thought from diverse eras and cultures. Her creative process is nurtured by a hybridisation of knowledge and manifests itself through technical innovation, from giant brushes to alloys of glazes.
After graduating from the École des Beaux-arts in Toulouse, Fabienne Verdier studied with masters in China from 1983 to 1992. She then spent years immersed in the oeuvres of Abstract Expressionist painters, and created a series of paintings for the Fondation Hubert Looser in Zurich. Between 2009 and 2013, she researched the work of the Flemish Primitives – Van Eyck, Memling, Van der Weyden – and made paintings in dialogue with the masters for an exhibition at the Groeningemuseum in Bruges. In 2014, she set up a studio in the Juilliard School (New York), which accepted for the first time the creation of a research laboratory on music and painting.
From 2015 to 2017, Fabienne Verdier worked with Alain Rey for the 50th anniversary edition of the Petit Robert dictionary, and produced 22 paintings celebrating the creative energy of language. In 2019, the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence dedicated to Fabienne Verdier a retrospective exhibition, retracing the artist’s career from her return from China to the latest creation she made facing the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Also in 2019, one of her paintings, made in a series of twelve, was chosen by the French postal office, La Poste, to be used on a stamp.
Fabienne Verdier’s work is regularly exhibited in Europe and Asia. It features in many important collections, including the MNAM – Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich, the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar; the Fondation Hubert Looser and the Kunsthaus in Zurich; and Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.
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