Eva Nielsen (artist) explained

Eva Nielsen (born 1983) is a French-Danish visual artist who currently lives and works in Paris. She is known for mixing screen-printing techniques with oil and ink on canvas to create large paintings of contemporary suburban landscapes.[1] [2]

Biography

After a BA in Modern History and Literature, Eva Nielsen received her MFA from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2009 with a one-year Socrates scholarship at Central Saint Martins, London (2008). Upon graduation she was the recipient of the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts / Thaddeus Ropac Prize (2009) offering support and exhibition opportunities to young artists,[3] followed by the Art Collector Prize in 2014. Her work has been shown in institutions such as Mac/Val, BNKR München, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Louis Vuitton Foundation, Kunsthal Charlottenburg. Her work was included in the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art: Manifesto of Fragility.

In subsequent years, Eva Nielsen's work has been short-listed for AWARE[4] and Meurice[5] prizes in 2017 and nominated for the 23rd Foundation Pernod Ricard Prize in 2022.[6] She was the recipient of LVMH Métiers d'Art Grant and Residency program in 2021, allowing her to work closely with artisanal silk and leather printing techniques.[7] [8] In 2023, she was the recipient of BMW Group's Art Makers Program with French curator Marianne Derrien to create a series of works with a focus on the Camargue territory, with solo exhibitions at Rencontres photographiques d'Arles and Paris Photo (2023).[9] [10]

Eva Nielsen teaches at Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2022[11] and has been represented by The Pill Gallery since 2015.

Work

Eva Nielsen uses silk-screen printing in her paintings in order to fragment and rearrange imagery from built environment, abandoned suburbia and desolate infrastructures.[12] The hybridity of her gesture has been described as both "human and mechanical, producing a sensitive complexity".[13] French art critic Anaël Pigeat wrote in 2012 that this contributes to a fragmentation on the painting's surface that acts "literally and metaphorically as projection surfaces, windows on the world both concealing and revealing".[14] In 2014 she was cited by Arts Magazine among the forerunners of the "new wave" in French painting centered around a shared "spectral quality".[15] According to art ciritic Clément Dirié, by using screen-printing, emphasizing negative space and blur, "Eva Nielsen offers traps for the eye, receptacles to project yourself into cognitive instruments against which we measure ourselves". In her "Insolare" series, combining "optical and hydrogeological phenomena with exposure to light, a technique used in screen-printing",[16] Nielsen references "the incredible complexity of loss in nature".[17]

Exhibitions

Eva Nielsen's solo exhibitions include:

Her work has been included in institutional group shows such as

References

  1. Web site: Eva Nielsen — Art [] Collector ]. 2023-12-10 . art-collector.fr . fr-FR.
  2. Web site: ElaineAlain Eva Nielsen . 2023-12-10 . elainealain.fr . fr.
  3. Web site: Ses actions . 2023-12-10 . Les amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris . fr-FR.
  4. Web site: Eva Nielsen . 2023-12-10 . AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes . en-US.
  5. Web site: Shurvell . Joanne . One Of Europe's Most Generous Art Prizes Celebrates 10th Anniversary . 2023-12-10 . Forbes . en.
  6. Web site: 23rd Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize "Horizones" The Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard . 2023-12-10 . www.fondation-pernod-ricard.com.
  7. Web site: 2022-05-12 . LVMH Métiers d'Art and Eva Nielsen present Intarsia exhibition . 2023-12-10 . LVMH . en.
  8. Book: Nielsen, Eva . Chroma: Tanneries Roux, Twinpix . 2022 . 978-2-492175-13-8.
  9. Web site: BMW ART MAKERS: INSOLARE by artist Eva Nielsen and curator Marianne Derrien at Paris Photo 2023. BMW France is official partner of the fair and presents the project of this year's winning duo. . 2023-12-10 . www.press.bmwgroup.com . en.
  10. Web site: d'Arles . Les Rencontres . Eva Nielsen and Marianne Derrien . 2023-12-10 . www.rencontres-arles.com.
  11. Web site: & Eva Nielsen . 2023-12-11 . BA . en.
  12. Book: Dirié . Clément . Eva Nielsen . Derrien . Marianne . Riff . Joël . 2019 . Manuella éditions . 978-2-490505-06-7 . Paris.
  13. Web site: 2016-02-03 . Eva Nielsen : plasticienne hybride et sans bride . 2023-12-10 . www.telerama.fr . fr.
  14. Pigeat . Annael . January 2012 . Eva Nielsen . Art Press . 385.
  15. Berland . Alain . October 2014 . Hantologie de la nouvelle peinture . Arts Magazine . 91 . 92–97.
  16. News: Stone . Mee-Lai . 2023-07-04 . Eye catching! Arles festival of photography – in pictures . en-GB . the Guardian . 2023-12-10 . 0261-3077.
  17. Web site: Sophie Gladstone . 2023-11-09 . Paris Photo 2023: Eva Nielsen puts our impact on the Camargue in dynamic focus . 2023-12-10 . wallpaper.com . en.
  18. Web site: Eva Nielsen The Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard . 2023-12-11 . www.fondation-pernod-ricard.com.
  19. Web site: Immortal . 2023-12-11 . www.moco.art.
  20. Web site: Eva Nielsen . 2023-12-11 . Biennale de Lyon . fr.

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