Sonja Chiffot
I wines in the world on July 26, 1972 in Dijon of a father plasterer painter and a mother waitress in the family restaurant.
I lived a happy early childhood of small sensitive girl filled with wonder by the beauty of the rural world at Corcelles-les-Cîteaux surrounded of the love of my country family.
I spent my first years the two feet anchored well on this fertile ground of Burgundy to the simple and healthy values and the glance turned towards the abbey of Cîteaux in a dash of spirituality.
I was a child impassioned by the vibrating colors and changeantes which bathed me light according to the seasons, by these forests of Burgundy, such of majestic cathedrals, which offered an infinite variation of tone heats to the autumn. I enjoyed a few simple moments of happiness in company of my paternal grandfather when it invited me to enter his workshop of painter to discover thousand and ones there nuances of coloured pigments which radiated in their small wood racks…
I had fun to create my own pigments in an ancestral gesture which consisted in crushing small deliberately selected stones for their values coloured until obtaining a powder, of which I estimated the treasure, and who was used to me to plot some transitory drawings on the ground in a desire to embellish a space, a surface which seemed to me sad.
My first works undoubtedly were created thus in the magic of my tender years.
I preserved in me all the power and the simplicity of my native soil borrows these moments of color, of harmony with Nature, happiness and spirituality.
An early childhood however too quickly curtailed, stolen, one day of my five years, in a bathroom (which will become a recurring topic with my work) to remain only one small virginal being destroyed by the perverse cruelty of an adult. The heavy weight of the well kept secrecy was right of my words and consequently the only possible expression was that of the drawing and painting. The life continued in this dumbness and I grew by retaining only the beauty of the things, I were useful myself of the colors to give again a little life to my ravaged heart.
My family settled during my sixth year in the South of France, in Saint-Raphaël and I was again filled with wonder by the richness at his contrasted colors, with the tone forts and powerful which cut out the forms distinctly. The Mediterranean landscapes vibrated under this light so much different from that of my native soil.
I passed the greatest part of my time to look at, observe this light, his reflections on the sea, which I hardly discovered, like filling up me of all this new energy, of all this brightness in a communion with this Nature which allured me each busy day.
After all my brittleness discovered I filled up of all this solar power.
I continued my small ritual of creation of new pigments to embellish my new space, a manner of undoubtedly adapting me this new land of welcome.
I discovered the Visual arts with the college and thei...
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I wines in the world on July 26, 1972 in Dijon of a father plasterer painter and a mother waitress in the family restaurant.
I lived a happy early childhood of small sensitive girl filled with wonder by the beauty of the rural world at Corcelles-les-Cîteaux surrounded of the love of my country family.
I spent my first years the two feet anchored well on this fertile ground of Burgundy to the simple and healthy values and the glance turned towards the abbey of Cîteaux in a dash of spirituality.
I was a child impassioned by the vibrating colors and changeantes which bathed me light according to the seasons, by these forests of Burgundy, such of majestic cathedrals, which offered an infinite variation of tone heats to the autumn. I enjoyed a few simple moments of happiness in company of my paternal grandfather when it invited me to enter his workshop of painter to discover thousand and ones there nuances of coloured pigments which radiated in their small wood racks…
I had fun to create my own pigments in an ancestral gesture which consisted in crushing small deliberately selected stones for their values coloured until obtaining a powder, of which I estimated the treasure, and who was used to me to plot some transitory drawings on the ground in a desire to embellish a space, a surface which seemed to me sad.
My first works undoubtedly were created thus in the magic of my tender years.
I preserved in me all the power and the simplicity of my native soil borrows these moments of color, of harmony with Nature, happiness and spirituality.
An early childhood however too quickly curtailed, stolen, one day of my five years, in a bathroom (which will become a recurring topic with my work) to remain only one small virginal being destroyed by the perverse cruelty of an adult. The heavy weight of the well kept secrecy was right of my words and consequently the only possible expression was that of the drawing and painting. The life continued in this dumbness and I grew by retaining only the beauty of the things, I were useful myself of the colors to give again a little life to my ravaged heart.
My family settled during my sixth year in the South of France, in Saint-Raphaël and I was again filled with wonder by the richness at his contrasted colors, with the tone forts and powerful which cut out the forms distinctly. The Mediterranean landscapes vibrated under this light so much different from that of my native soil.
I passed the greatest part of my time to look at, observe this light, his reflections on the sea, which I hardly discovered, like filling up me of all this new energy, of all this brightness in a communion with this Nature which allured me each busy day.
After all my brittleness discovered I filled up of all this solar power.
I continued my small ritual of creation of new pigments to embellish my new space, a manner of undoubtedly adapting me this new land of welcome.
I discovered the Visual arts with the college and thei...
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- Date of birth : 1972
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GALERIE MARAMA - NOUMEA - Nouvelle Calédonie
La galerie se situe dans le quartier Latin, rue Sébastopole à Nouméa en Nouvelle Calédonie dans laquelle mes techniques mixtes y sont exposées...
expositions temporaires saison 2007
Deux lieux d'expositions temporaires sur la Côte d'Azur, lieux de convivialité:
L'agence Bar à Sainte-Maxime (bar à thèmes)
Au rendez vous à Callian (restaurant spécialités italiennes)
Pour allier plaisir de la contemplation et plaisir gustatif!
TECHNIQUE MIXTE SUR TOILE
Ce que j'entends par technique mixte c'est un travail qui mêle plusieures techniques soit un maroufflage sur toile de toile à crue naturelle, une utilisation de la pierre noire pour les traits ainsi que l'utilisation de cristaux de quarts, acrylique, médium naturel, et vernis de luthier, naturels... sans oublier la main de l'artiste! Et voici le résultat de mes recherches picturales tant par la matière que par les thèmes qui ne rstent que prétextes à l'expression personnelle...
HUILES SUR TOILE
J'utilise l'huile sur toile à base de glacis colorés à partir de pigments de couleurs pour le travail de la surface picturale... une préparation de la toile préalable est nécessaire...
BETWEEN BRITTLENESS AND POWER
I wines in the world on July 26, 1972 in Dijon of a father plasterer painter and a mother waitress in the family restaurant.
I lived a happy early childhood of small sensitive girl filled with wonder by the beauty of the rural world at Corcelles-les-Cîteaux surrounded of the love of my country family.
I spent my first years the two feet anchored well on this fertile ground of Burgundy to the simple and healthy values and the glance turned towards the abbey of Cîteaux in a dash of spirituality.
I was a child impassioned by the vibrating colors and changeantes which bathed me light according to the seasons, by these forests of Burgundy, such of majestic cathedrals, which offered an infinite variation of tone heats to the autumn. I enjoyed a few simple moments of happiness in company of my paternal grandfather when it invited me to enter his workshop of painter to discover thousand and ones there nuances of coloured pigments which radiated in their small wood racks…
I had fun to create my own pigments in an ancestral gesture which consisted in crushing small deliberately selected stones for their values coloured until obtaining a powder, of which I estimated the treasure, and who was used to me to plot some transitory drawings on the ground in a desire to embellish a space, a surface which seemed to me sad.
My first works undoubtedly were created thus in the magic of my tender years.
I preserved in me all the power and the simplicity of my native soil borrows these moments of color, of harmony with Nature, happiness and spirituality.
An early childhood however too quickly curtailed, stolen, one day of my five years, in a bathroom (which will become a recurring topic with my work) to remain only one small virginal being destroyed by the perverse cruelty of an adult. The heavy weight of the well kept secrecy was right of my words and consequently the only possible expression was that of the drawing and painting. The life continued in this dumbness and I grew by retaining only the beauty of the things, I were useful myself of the colors to give again a little life to my ravaged heart.
My family settled during my sixth year in the South of France, in Saint-Raphaël and I was again filled with wonder by the richness at his contrasted colors, with the tone forts and powerful which cut out the forms distinctly. The Mediterranean landscapes vibrated under this light so much different from that of my native soil.
I passed the greatest part of my time to look at, observe this light, his reflections on the sea, which I hardly discovered, like filling up me of all this new energy, of all this brightness in a communion with this Nature which allured me each busy day.
After all my brittleness discovered I filled up of all this solar power.
I continued my small ritual of creation of new pigments to embellish my new space, a manner of undoubtedly adapting me this new land of welcome.
I discovered the Visual arts with the college and their discovery charms me. I experienced various techniques, included/understood the plastic facts of the works studied in history of Art. I felt an immense pleasure to answer the various subjects, I could pass a good part of the night to create a drawing, a painting, to seek information on the work of the artists under the benevolent eye of my parents who had seized my passion. I had the chance to be supported by my professor which enabled me to include/understand the importance that Art in my life had since so young person and naturally I undertaken studies of Visual art.
I was Diplômée Faculty of Letters and Social sciences of Aix-en-Provence in Visual arts, I there remained and studied during six years the painting and the history of Art, on the poetic traces of Cézanne. I intended myself for the teaching of this matter but my personal convictions differed from that of national education then I preferred to approach another field of Art. By reaction I posed my brushes to let them rest and not to more paint time to find me, little time was it.
I was then responsible for an art gallery in Nice, and at this point in time I decided to return to the starting point, me to rebuild and I undertaken the way of my personal expression: that of my Painting.
I begun again notebooks of sketch and watercolours, initially, to crunch all these architectures niçoises which I liked for their structures, play of the light on their frontages which restructured space like for the richness of their coloured harmony.
Then came the desire for treating these landscapes which had inspired so many painters, in situ, with always this same research, that of the harmony of the form, the space and the power of the color, the sailing ships and boats for the movement, of the hulls and the veils, the reflection of the light on these spaces of white fabrics just as on this moving vastness and changing sea.
My Art was born slowly, simply of my enthusiasm for the color, the light, space and that in a search of balance and personal harmony without any reference to any school.
Oil became my favorite medium for all its plastic capacities but also for my rapture of the terpentine odor which filled up the workshop very as much as for its sensual texture with the touch.
The life not being more this pink of the beautiful days of unconcern, since good a long time for me, and by experiment I knew which could be quite black sometimes, I put in search of this arc sky of colors which would illuminate my sky, of this interval at the variations of marvellous tone.
It is of this conscience that the life is a multitude of colors oscillating between the Light and Darkness which I sought my harmony, my vibration in
testing, mixing them, of the pigment to the glacis, opacity to the transparency, I created my colors of life.
I tackled then subjects plus intimists, of the subjects of interior with my “alive natures”, compositions of flowers and usual objects transcended with the row of Art, always in this same research structural of a balanced and harmonious composition in which flowers and objects had their space of existence.
The more I created, the more I met and the topic of the masks I choose to treat. For the how much masks it will have been necessary to carry to cross a life… I treated these masks while inspiring to me by this art known as “primitive”, I thought it only symbolic system so close to our unconscious prototypes. I engraved them in the matter, traced contours of black and returned to them their colors by glacis of pigments natural and coloured, they seemed to leave ground of which they took anchoring and transcended the life by their artistic existence.
Gradually my feature was done more flexible and I discovered with rapture the curve, maternity undoubtedly had opened this new horizon to me. It represents with it only the umbilical cord, the bond with the life, just like the spiral of ADN which creates its incarnations.
I placed myself finally in the center of my painting, in the center of my world, I found myself in subjects of intimacy, naked bodies. My work on the topic of
bath, that of naked took all its rise… The naked female one is one of my subjects of predilection. Spaces in which mix force and softness, sensuality and intimacy of femininity in light. Painting as a caress of glacis coloured gives form and life to these bodies, it incarnates them with the directions…
Finally I turned to the human one as my field of conscience and “maternities opened”, of the “families”, “of the couples” took form in my features, by the color and the matter sublimating a few moments of happiness…
The bodies became incarnations, beings related to the world by the love, the friendship, of privileged moments of division of simply human emotions in this movement of curves, matters and vibrations of colors…
The subjects which I tackle in my creations are those of my emotions, those of my questioning on my own working procedure like that of the Human Being.
“Each Man is a humanity, a universal history” Jules Michelet
They are the seed of my impulses of creation whose each work carried out is the fruit. A such life instinct which pushes to me to take fabrics, brushes and colors so that takes form, in a tangible reality, a feeling, a feeling, if abstract and personal it is. It then takes life in an anchoring with reality, that even as the thought has the capacity to transgress, to sublimate with complete freedom. It exists in the world.
Each object, each being laid out in a certain space acts as interdependence of form, matter, space and color. The conscience of this interaction structural of the world is in the middle of my plastic research and is declined in my paintings. By exceeding the stage of individuality, by becoming aware of all the bonds which link the beings in the world, I seek to give this vision of the unit, a form of universality.
Halfway between the figuration and the abstraction of the form my incisive feature takes again that of the basic sketch of work, déstructure and restructures pictorial space in the search of a harmony. The feature of outline is preserved in made final and becomes an important plastic element as well as
matter and the color. It is the bond, the birth and the end, the past, the present, the relation between all its spaces, the wire of ARIANE symbol of life. Each work as each being is built while carrying in him the trace of its own genesis.
“Out the Love and the Friendship, Art is the shortest way a Being towards another. ” Pablo Picasso
My painting is my way of coming into contact with the unconscious one of the other mainly by the perception of felt, thanks to the form, with the color, the matter, the light, the archetypal symbolism of these elements joined together in work.
With the meeting of myself and Other.
The picturality offers to me all the freedom of the feeling of the matter under my fingers, the color and the light under my glance, of the pleasant odor of the oil which floats in the workshop.
A dumb poetry which delivers only the vibration of the feelings.
To sublimate the life, to transfigure the world by the pictorial matter, to seize the harmony and to raise the veil which darkens the hearts and the hearts, such is the testimony of my apprehension of the world through my creation.
Thank you with you to have passed on this page and to have taken the time of a simply human meeting.
- 1993
PremiХre exposure Fayence (83) - France
First price of painting
- 1997:
Gallery ╚ Imagines ╩ - Nice (06) - France
Personal exposure Ю CНteaux (21) - France
Professor of Visual arts for children & adult ╚ Association of Puget on Argens ╩ (83) - France
ConfИrenciХre in history of Art association ╚ Lines ╩ St RaphaКl (83) - France
- 1998:
Artistic MarchИ of Saint-RaphaКl (83) - France
Artistic MarchИ of Agay (83) - France
Personal exposure - Issambres (83) - France
Personal exposure ╚ Beautiful Arts Moors EstИrel ╩ - St RaphaКl (83) - France
Personal exposure ╚ Intersections ╩ - St RaphaКl (83) - France
Living room of contemporary art Aix-Expo - Aix-en-Provence (13) - France
Gallery ⌠ of EstИrel■ - St RaphaКl - France
Gallery Imagines - Nice - France
Living room of the painters and sculptors Ю Longchamp Marseilles (13) - France
First price of painting Ю Ollioules, St Laurent-of-VAr, Draguignan, Cavalaire - France
Professor of Visual arts for children & adult ╚ Association of Puget on Argens ╩ (83) - France
ConfИrenciХre in history of Art association ╚ Lines ╩ St RaphaКl (83) - France
1999:
Exposure Art & Wine - field of Lauzade - Luc-in-Provence (83) - France
Living room of Arts MediterranИens- Mandelieu (06) - France
Living room of the Painters and Sculptors Ю Longchamps- Marseilles (13) - France
Living room of Arts - co. Tulle (84) - France
Living room of Contemporary art Aix-Expo - Aix-en-Provence (13) - France
Gallery ╚ of EstИrel ╩ - St Raphael (83) - France
Personal exposure ╚ the triangle ╩ - St RaphaКl (83) - France
Personal exposure ╚ Intersections ╩ - Roquebrune-on-argens (83) - France
Price of the young talent - Roquebrune-Cape-Martin (06) - France
Professor of Visual arts for children & adult ╚ Association of Puget on Argens ╩ (83) - France
ConfИrenciХre in history of Art association ╚ Lines ╩ St RaphaКl (83) - France
L'Art et la thérapie
Si dans un premier temps l'Art, l'expression de mes sentiments, pensées, bonheurs et angoisses s'incarnaient de cette peau de peinture déposée sur la toile vierge faute de les incarner par mon propre corps en vie par des gestes ou bien des attitudes conscientes; si les maux des mots se dessinaient et ne se disaient pas restant face à moi même dans la solitude absolue de l'atelier d'artiste; Aujourd'hui j'ai appris de cette expérience au combien nécessaire à ma rencontre et me suis ouverte à l'Autre, à tout autre, riche de ce savoir de ce que l'Art met en jeu tant au niveau conscient qu'inconscient, en ayant les mots justes accueil, respect et non jugement, je me dirige vers l'Art Thérapie et ouvre mon champ d'expériences en la matière artistique et thérapeutique à la personne en quête de réponse, dans un désir d'évolution personnelle.
L'oeuvre ne me sert plus de médium d'une rencontre de l'Autre (par effet miroir qui n'est qu'une partie de moi-même) au cours d'une exposition, il était le seul système trouvé pour calmer l'angoisse de la rencontre avec l'Autre érigeant l'oeuvre telle une défense entre nous deux. Je n'ai plus le besoin ni la nécessité de me cacher derrière mon tableau... Je le rencontre en Vérité, en face à face armée de mon expérience vécue et d'une ouverture de coeur afin de l'accompagner et de lui transmettre une expérience de vie, la découverte de ses propres moyens pour s'incarner et se mettre en relation plus harmonieuse avec lui et avec les autres... Bientôt je proposerai des stages en art thérapie, si d'ores et déjà vous êtes intéressé n'hésitez pas à me contacter...