{ Galerie Papillon }

Frédérique Loutz manipulates, blurs and abruptly changes forms. Dictated by her drawing, they are most often hybrid. The artist mixes techniques not to associate or confuse them, but so that the contrast distinguishes them. She constantly tries to renew what she draws and succeeds without succeeding. The vocabulary that she uses, repeats and interprets again and again takes us into an often fantastic and phantasmagorical universe where nice monsters and familiar denatured characters cohabit.

Born in 1974, Sarreguemines, France
Lives and works between Paris and Sarreguemines, France

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1997 Diplomed from Beaux-Arts de Paris.
2007 Villa Medici, Rome and participates in Il était une fois WALT DISNEY. Aux sources de l'art des studios Disney, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and Musée des Beaux-arts, Montreal.
2009 Group show La force de l’art 02, Triennale at the Grand Palais, Paris.
2010 Participate in elles@centrepompidou, Paris.
2011 Group show Tous cannibales, la Maison Rouge, Paris et ME Collectors Room, Berlin.
2013 Coup(o)les, end-of-residency exhibition at the Château de Chambord.
2019 Participate in XXL, Estampes Monumentales Contemporaines, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen.
2021 5^th solo exhibition at the Galerie Papillon and publication of a monograph.

"Frédérique Loutz's tragi-comic and surreal world is composed of haunted castles, tarot and circus, grimacing faces and upside down bodies." Roxana Azimi in Le Quotidien de l’Art, Nov. 2019

"Les aquarelles et encres de chine de Frédérique Loutz font jaillir des formes spectrales tirées de la mythologie, des contes, de l’imagerie populaire." Thomas Schlesser in Beaux-Arts Magazine, Apr. 2013

"This little fairy draws and paints large formats where detail can be tracked like in a treasure hunt." Valérie Duponchelle in Le Figaroscope, Nov. 2010

"Until now, Frédérique Loutz had distinguished herself by the strangeness and skill of her drawings, very small or very large, on beautiful or poor paper. She excelled in making grotesque figures appear, disarticulated dolls, obviously artificial flowers, masks or monsters all adorned with diaphanous and slightly faded colors. It was a really successful beginning." Philippe Dagen in Le Monde, June 2007

Solo exhibitions

2021
Flip a coin, Galerie Papillon, Paris

2015
La main chaude, une correspondance avec Dominique Païni, Librairie Mazarine, Paris

2014
Work in Glass, R+1, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris

2012-2018
Drawing teacher, ESADMM, Ecole Supérieure d'art et de design Marseille-Méditéranée

2011 
Intervention à la table ronde "dessiner le musée", Richard Peduzzi, Percussion Discussion, Auditorium du Louvre

2010
Rapporteur for the Villa Medicis
Jury for the 3rd year diploma (Object section ), École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg

Conference, Art Forum, Berlin, Germany

2009
Intervention with Ernesto Castillo (20th anniversary of the fall of the wall) with teenagers from Berlin and France, Institut français de Berlin.

2000-2004
Workshop of the beaux-arts de Clichy (evenings classes for adults)
Art workshops conducted in kindergarten classes of la Haÿ-les-Roses, Cachan, Asnieres, Fresnes

2002
École municipale d'arts plastiques de Saint-Denis (construction workshop)

2000
La dalle en fête, creation of urban art with the inhabitants before the demolition of buildings 3 and 4 of the cité de la Saussaie Saint-Denis

1999
Maison d'art contemporain Chailloux
Plastic arts workshops conducted in the schools of Fresnes, de l'Hay-les-Roses et d'Alforville

1998
Maison d'art contemporain Chailloux
Public order, École Benoît Malon, Kremlin Bicêtre

Studies 

1998-1999 
Formation CAPES arts plastiques Paris 8

1997-1998 
Licence d'arts plastiques Paris 8

1996-1997 
École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris 

1992-1996 
"Le Quai" École d'art et de design de Haute-Alsace Mulhouse
Obtention du DNAP