ANDRÉE PHILIPPOT-MATHIEU was born in Vienne, France, in 1946.
She has lived in Lyon, Barcelona and Ivry-sur-Seine, and is currently based in Paris.
After many years devoted to painting, in 1990 she began turning towards work in urban contexts, installations, photography and writing.
Her interest in museums and museography has led to extensive travel in Europe, the former Eastern Bloc countries and the United States.

 

RESIDENCIES:
As invited artist in residence for periods of several months, she has worked and exhibited in:

• 1986 at the Halle Sud, Geneva
• 1989 at the Villa Arson, Nice
• 1990 at Cadaquès, Catalonia (at Catherine Sagnier's loft)
• 1991 in Barcelona.

 

TRAVEL AND FIELD TRIPS:

1981	Russia (Moscow and Saint Petersburg)
1986-1987	Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Italy
1989	U.S.A. (New York, Philadelphia, Chicago), Hamburg and Berlin (November) London
1990	Catalonia, Italy
1991 à 1992	lives and works in Barcelona and Lyon
1992	settles in Barcelona
1994	visits Romania
1998	leaves Catalonia and returns to Lyon, France
2001	lives in Ivry-sur-Seine
2005	settles in Paris visits Egypt
2006	visits Prague, Vienna, Budapest
2007	visits China

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS in France, Switzerland, Spain.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS in France, Switzerland, Spain, United States, Japan, Canada

 

LARGE-SCALE WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR:

• 1990 Le corps et l’esprit : Two-part ceramic mural at the Charles Baudelaire secondary school at Cran-Gevrier (Haute Savoie, France)
• 1991 Parcours For an insurance company in Mulhouse, France
• 1997 & 2000 Le chemin du Rosaire in the gardens of Fourvière Basilica in Lyon

 

INSTALLATIONS:
Lieux de passage:

• Installation in GENEVA at the Hôtel des Bergues, 1999
• Visual and sound installation in NICE at the Hôtel Windsor, since 1998
• Installation in BARCELONA at the Hotel Majestic, since 1998

Red Frontal:

• A series of Nomadic portraits exploring the interaction between painting and photography

 

COLLECTIONS HOLDING HER WORK:

• public collections in France
• private collections in France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, United States and Japan
• various art lending libraries

 

VIDEOS:
by:

• Jean Lucien GUILLAUME, 1985
• Jean Michel PELERIN, 1989 exhibition Works on Wood
• Jean Michel PELERIN, 1990 Le corps et l’esprit (large-scale work for the Charles Baudelaire secondary school in Cran-Gevrier, France
• TLM, 1990: RUCKRIEM, MORELLET, PHILIPPOT-MATHIEU
• EURO NEWS, 1997
• Jean-François ROBIN, 2006 Red Frontal

 

PRINTS AND PUBLICATIONS:
Lithographs in Lyon, Villeurbanne, Barcelona and Paris.

Inferno: catalogue of the exhibition at the HALLE SUD in GENEVA, 1987
Le corps et l’esprit: catalogue published by the Rhône-Alpes Region, 1990
Passeigs:set of silkscreens, exhibited at the Maison de la Catalogne in PARIS, 1999
Catalunya: portfolio, drawings and texts, exhibition at the Maison de la Catalogne, 1999
Paseos: volume of photographs and bilingual texts (Editions e-dite), November 2003
Sans fard ni honte: narrative published by Jean Christophe Pichon, May 2004
Itinérance: : volume of texts and photos (Editions e-dite, in preparation))
Réflexions sans conséquence: volume of texts and photos (Editions e-dite, in preparation)

 

STATEMENT:
"For more than twenty years travel has been an integral part of my work and my life. Travel as a metaphor for knowledge. Change of context, language and habits. A noting of differences. A more critical eye for one's own culture. Shifting of ideas. Cultural cross-fertilisation.
Projects for urban settings, installations, paintings, photographs, writing – all channels for my exploration of identity, whether individual or collective. Quest for identity or cultural identification. Traces one leaves behind or signals embedded in the collective memory.
Within, without. From the personal to the communal.

Travel, Memory, Identity.

Urban projects like Le corps et l’esprit and Chemin du Rosaire draw on the memory of place, a memory past or to come.

The installation Lieux de passage created in Geneva, Nice and Barcelona, and later in Lyon, embodies my memory of these cities where I have lived and where I have left traces of my presence.

The project Convergence highlights cultural cross-fertilisation.

Serres and Cadres are like signals challenging the eye.

The installation Paris, mythe, symboles, objets and the photography series Cities, identy and perception bring a fresh eye to the way big cities signal their identity.

In the series Frontalement rouge I speculate about the identity of the artist, taking the point of view of a portraitist; and about the identity of the people I have met in the course of my life and travels, whom I photograph or paint. These are nomadic portraits exploring the interaction between painting and photography. The paintings are photographed as a means of maintaining objectivity and stressing certain questions:

• What identity signals can be discerned in a portrait?
• What degree of empathy is required for a painting to convey the subject's interiority?

 

The book of photographs Paseos Paseos (Editions e-dite) reflects my dual perception of Catalonia while I was living there. From within and from without. In close-up and from a distance. A dual culture – Catalan and French – and a vision both "emotional" and "analytical".

Sans fard ni honte (Editions e-dite) recounts my experience of an extremely rare form of leukaemia caused by repeated use of benzene-based art materials. In my book I examine the social image of Cancer, its prevention, psychological training for doctors, euthanasia and other illness-related social issues.

Itinérance (Editions e-dite) is a collection of texts written in different cities over a period of twenty years (1976–96): echoing my travels, encounters and states of mind, the pieces are a response to the need to keep a record, as one does via photographs or written notes. These are fragmentary records of a quest in which the ceaseless interweaving of art and life are part of an ongoing, open-ended adventure.

Incorporating the notion of travel into my work and life has allowed me to broaden my field of activity: to use places, encounters and events as inspiration for works that function as pointers or mnemonic reminders, while I continue my autobiographical explorations. .