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  • Source: Karen Joubert Cordier
  • Karen Joubert Cordier, born on August 29, 1954, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French-American artist known for her distinctive contributions to the art world.


    Early life


    Joubert Cordier's father was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique navy captain and her mother was a model. Joubert Cordier had opportunities to explore the world and meet many luminaries, including Coco Chanel, Charlie Chaplin, and Leopold, King of Belgium.


    Career


    Upon completion of her studies at the Academy Charpentier in Paris, she was mentored by a famous art dealer, Daniel Cordier. Her first show was at the Gallery Beaubourg, Paris, and was followed by a permanent exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Museum.
    She has received praise from art critic Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Jean-Pierre Thébault, Consul General of France in Hong Kong and Macao, and Henrietta Tsui, the Director of Galerie Ora-Ora.
    One review suggests that Joubert Cordier has embraced the surrealist and disturbing side of Dalí, the colours of Le Douanier Rousseau, the technique of Arcimboldo and the modernity of Robert Combas.


    Style


    Her art draws on movements such as expressionism, fauvism, pointillism, postmodernism, and surrealism. She deals with themes of travel, nature, and plant life.
    Joubert Cordier tends to use the entirety of her canvases, filling them with detail.


    Collections


    Le Dechainement de Vegetal (translation: the unbridled vegetation) is an accumulation of details of flowers and plants exploded by the use of fluorescent colours and freedom of composition.
    Her L'Exotism series features canvases full of plants and animals.


    = La Narrative Figurative

    =
    More recently, Joubert Cordier's paintings are inspired by her travels. Being the daughter of the Chief Purser of the liner France, she is widely traveled and has crossed the Atlantic Ocean 49 times. Each of her journeys is a "true source of inspiration". Her work starts on a point where she sketches cartoonlike images of days that pass by. She completes these in her workshop where her brushes will interpret all the knowledge she had assimilated throughout her travelling, transporting the eye into different worlds. The collection could be subdivided into two genres:


    French Prestige


    This series draws on Joubert Cordier's travels as a child. These encounters marked a unique impression on her and have reinforced a unique vision in her illustrative work. Joubert Cordier translated her experiences with collage of memories, from glamorous Europe to the wave of Pop art and icons of the time.


    Romantic Rivera


    This title greets the arrival of English and American residents in search of a quiet place at the beginning of the last century. It is the Golden age of "Cote d'Azure" that Joubert Cordier feels. She expresses this feeling in colours of the quiet blue of the sea, the intense and warm red of the sun and especially by Sienna dust which stresses the romantic, nostalgic and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of these subjects in black and white. In these peculiar settings, she introduces people who are the stars in business, movies, arts and novels.


    = Pop

    =
    Joubert Cordier's Pop collection is a reminiscence of the comic strips of the childhood days, the American dream, and the chewing gum societies. From economic intelligence to Andy Warhol's Marilyn, from Mickey Mouse to Superman, from Norman Rockwell to Bill Gates, her world is colourful in pure pop art tradition.


    Collectors


    Joubert Cordier's works are collected by the Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris, which houses the largest collection of modern art in Europe. Her works are also collected by many others, including former French Prime Minister Jean-Francois Girard, entertainer Elton John and the Rockefeller Foundation.
    Many of her paintings are now collected and showcased in national museums, including the Art Modern Museum in Toulouse, and are in the hands of international collectors.


    Exhibitions


    2010

    Shanghai "My City Our Dreams" Gala Auction, Shanghai, China; 5 May
    Lifeline Express "The Beauty of Nature" Charity Painting Exhibition, Pacific Place, Hong Kong; 16 - 19 Apr
    Christine Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
    2009

    Alife Fresco 7th Anniversary, Tokyo; 28 August


















    Festival de Cannes; 20 May
    Le French May, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; 1 – 7 May














    Galarie Marie Ricoo, Calvi; 11 – 30 April
    Les désordres du plaisir, Musée des abattoirs, Art Moden Museum, Toulouse (new donation Daniel Cordier); 24 Jan – 19 April
    2008

    Hong Kong International Arts and Antiques Fair, Hong Kong
    Fresco on wall: CERAM Business School, Sophia Antipolis
    Museum of Perfume, Grasse
    Gallery Take 121, Nashville, USA
    Happy Art Gallery and Rotshield Bank, Cannes; 8 Oct
    Galerie Geraldine Zberro, Paris
    Galerie Onega, Paris
    Chicago Sister cities international, Chicago, USA; 8 Oct
    2007

    Galerie Pelissier, Nice
    Grand Hotel St. Jean cap, Ferrat
    Galerie de l’eveche, Vence
    2006

    Raffles Museum, Singapore
    Ode to Art Gallery, Singapore
    Negresco Hotel, Nice
    Kieba Gallery, Vence
    Karement Karen College Nikide, St Phalle
    2005

    Dream and Passion, Singapore
    French Affair with Singapore, Singapore
    Villa Durazzo, Santa Margarita, Italy
    Les Abattoirs, Art Modern Museum, Toulouse
    Beaubourg Gallery, Vence
    Negresco Hotel, Nice
    Château Ste Roseline, Draguignan
    Cultural Center, Roquefort les pins
    2004

    Business Center, Nice Airport
    Galerie Loumani, Valbonne
    2003

    La Verand’anne, Gstaad, Switzerland
    Referencing at Georges Pompidou Library
    Fifth Gallery, Paris
    Galerie de l’eveche, Vence
    SNCP Champs Elysees, Paris
    2002

    Cultural Center, Roquefort les pins
    L’Abbaye, La Colle sur Loup
    Mas d’Artigny, Vence
    2001

    Gallery Aurora (William), Shanghai, China
    Navy Museum, Le Havre
    Mas d’Artigny, Vence
    Negresco Hotel, Nice
    Tatina Tournemine Gallery, Paris
    Beaubourg Gallery, Vence
    2000

    Chateau des fleurs, Marianne and Pierre Nahon, Vence
    L’Ile en terre Gallery, Vence
    1991 - 1999

    99: L’Abbaye, La Colle sur Loup
    98: Chateau Str Roseline, Draguignan
    98: Consulat du Canada, Chicago, USA
    96: New Eastside Art Works, Chicago, USA
    96: Nicole Gallery, Chicago, USA
    94: Majestic Hotel, Cannes
    1980 - 1990

    89: Art Honction Nahon, Nice
    88: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
    87: Galerie Beaubourg, Paris
    86: Henry Clew Foundation, Mandelieu
    Permanent exhibitions

    Les Abattoirs, Art Modern Museum, Toulouse
    Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris
    Galerie Onega, Paris
    Navy Museum, Le Havre
    Galerie Marie Ricco, Calvi
    Happy Art Galerie, Cannes
    Ode de Art Gallery, Singapore


    Products


    Karen x Feria Design Closet has produced a line of products, including perfume (in collaboration with Givenchy), handbags, porches, keychains and T-shirts.


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