Nolvenn Le Goff

Nolvenn Le Goff - Paris

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Biografía del Artista: Nolvenn Le Goff is a French artist born in Mexico City in 1975. She began her artistic training in Paris, where she studied printmaking at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. She also completed a study abroad stay at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work is characterized by being multidisciplinary, using diverse media and techniques such as drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. Le Goff is interested in social and political issues, and often addresses themes such as identity, memory and history. In her work, she uses a minimalist and refined aesthetic, which can sometimes be described as cold or distant. However, her pieces can also be emotive and evocative, using materials such as glass, porcelain and cement to create a dialogue between form and content. Le Goff has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in France, Germany, Mexico and other countries. He has also received numerous awards and recognitions, such as the Grant for Artistic Creation from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico in 2003, the artistic residency award from the Casa de Velázquez in 2006 and the Research Grant from the French Institute of Latin America in 2009. His work is part of public and private collections in Mexico and in other countries.

PAPER CITIES Cities have always been considered symbols of the greatness and power of the Human Being. The need to dominate and subdue nature in order to favour comfort has been taken to the extreme, distancing it further and further from our daily lives. We have created a “bubble effect” where our perception of reality has been deeply affected. Human beings have ceased to be human and have become an omnipresent, dominating and transforming God. They no longer have to compete with nature to survive, but with other gods like themselves, in a fierce struggle to accumulate material goods and comforts. But this is an illusion, even if we feel safe in our concrete paradises, it is the hand of nature that truly sustains us. We must learn to look beyond the bubble, recover our role in the balance of nature and appreciate the comforts offered to us at their true value. IF THIS CONTINUES, WE WILL DISCOVER THAT OUR BIG CITIES ARE AS FRAGILE AS PAPER. Nolvenn Le Goff Of Mexican and French origin, Nolvenn traveled to Barcelona in 2005 to complete a Master's degree in Marketing after completing a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and two specialties at the School of Design of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico in Editorial Design, Multimedia and Advertising Creativity. In 2010, Nolvenn decided to test herself and begin her formal journey into the art world. She questioned the role of the artist, the themes that interested her and how to reflect them in her future projects. This year, two of them were born based on her environmental concerns: one with a playful approach based on artistic recycling and Paper Cities. These Paper Towns have been one of his most rewarding projects, both on a technical, aesthetic and conceptual level. The cities won an international contemporary art competition (bARTcelona, ​​2010), allowed him to spend 2 months of artistic residency at the La Papeterie de Vaux ecomuseum in France (2012) and to participate in the Art Capital art show at the Grand Palais in Paris.