Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting (BFA-2001) from the prestigious Parsons School of Design-New School University in New York, Anne Beigbeder Sollis teaches painting in an Indian environment in the shanty town of “pueblo joven” in Peru, and participates in the creation of the ‘YACHAYHUASI’ House of Culture for the promotion of Indian arts and culture. She then went on to teach drawing and painting on a voluntary basis at the ‘Los Brasos’ orphanage in the Dominican Republic. After a stint in Montreal, Canada, she organized exhibitions in New York, Shanghai, Bangkok, Spain (group show as part of the international congress on violence against women), Greece, Paris, Biarritz (with Bartholomé Togo, Omar Ba, in collaboration with Philippe Djian) and Brussels. The transmission of art remains an essential part of his life, and he teaches in Bayonne-Biarritz-Anglet and Brussels in the various prestigious European schools in the Belgian capital, as well as in schools with positive discrimination. Welcoming newcomers. Anne Beigbeder Sollis is working on her next exhibition, which will take place this year.

Anne Beigbeder Sollis. Dark Curriculum

Anne Beigbeder Sollis was born on December 28, 1974 in Toulouse, France, and is a blonde French and American citizen.

At the age of four Anne Beigbeder Sollis missed her Flocon because she didn’t understand the test, but a few years later she got her Cabri (the Cabri is just before the Chamois).
before the Chamois).
Anne Beigbeder Sollis never won the Guéthary Duck Club masquerade costume competition.

In Maternelle, Anne Beigbeder Sollis, a tuft of hair in her left hand and round-tipped scissors in her right, the Mistress says to her:
“Anne-Emmanuelle, what have you done to Laetitia Morelli’s hair?”
Anne Beigbeder Sollis replies, “I don’t know, it’s not me.”
Today she says she doesn’t understand what happened.

Around the same time, Anne Beigbeder Sollis’s mother finds her at the apartment window, gazing down three floors below (on the glass roofs of the Grasset publishing house) at Noiraud, the house cat.
Her mother asks: “Anne-Emmanuelle, what have you done to Noiraud?”
Anne Beigbeder Sollis replies, “I don’t know, it’s not me.”
Today, she says she doesn’t understand what happened.

Anne Beigbeder Sollis spends her summers with her father in Connecticut, where he introduces her to the forests, lakes and legends of the American Indian.
She was “baptized” Wawatusee, which means shiny green.
This life in the woods gave her a phobia mixed with a fascination for large insects. Only the glow-worm retains a sympathetic aura.
At thirteen, she will be very sad to learn that elves and unicorns don’t exist. Anne Beigbeder Sollis continued her education at the Lycée Fénelon (Paris 6eme), but not for long. She passed her baccalaureate.
We’ll spare you the excesses of adolescence…

Anne Beigbeder Sollis paints a 3m by 6m mural with Glycero in her bedroom.
Her mother tells her, “Anne-Emmanuelle is beautiful, but it smells strong.”
She decides to move to New York and joins the Parsons School of Design – New school for Social Research. Four years in which she finally understood why she was there and what she was doing.

As an adult, Anne Beigbeder Sollis is a graduate of this prestigious school, still blonde, with long legs and bilingual.
Following her boyfriend’s advice, she takes the Air France stewardess exam “so we can travel for free”, but fails because she doesn’t understand the psycho-technical test.
This time, she says, “I don’t give a damn.”

Because Anne Beigbeder Sollis paints: blood, meat, electric violet.
Coagulated blood. Butterflies gnawing at the meat.
Butterflies with wings, to save themselves.
The strange birth of a being from a piece of entrails.
The birth of a bloody, stained animal.
Rape and disembowelment of matter, which has become an insect and therefore very small to be crushed.
The will to be reborn, even stained and bruised. Blood is as black as death.
Abandonment…

Abandoned perhaps, but reborn in Brussels where she settled with her little family on a whim, after seeing a documentary about Belgians on TV. They seem friendly, free and welcoming. Anne isn’t always focused, but she has insights.

While completing her Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, one of her professors, a bit of a gambler/provocateur, suggested that she put on a new face, forget the darkness of her oil paintings and open up to a new playground. Excited and challenged, the proposal stimulated and liberated her. “I’ll draw and not serve my guts to the public”. That was the contract.

Anne, even in Belgium, is always blonde, and it’s with a baby in one arm and a bic in the other that she throws herself wholeheartedly into drawing. Small formats at first, then larger and larger – so large, in fact, that she won’t discover her complete works until they’ve been hung in an exhibition. Her works are made up of a dozen sheets measuring 100x70cm, superimposed over 3.5 meters in height. Separation replaces tearing, just as Bic replaces paint. All the pieces are whole… but some more than others.

Anne will be blonde her whole life,

when she consciously wants something, she doesn’t get it; on the other hand, if she lets herself go, free, absent, she achieves her non-finishes. She doesn’t think straight, she doesn’t draw straight, she doesn’t write straight, it’s all about suggestion, legibility, chaos and unconsciousness. What fascinates her is the illogical, the unreal, the aberrant unfolding of a logical event, a real human event, inscribed in time and which overwhelms you. She loves the idea of energy wasted.

In the meantime, Anne has spent her flake on a simulator, she dresses up as she pleases around the world, she’s made artworks with hair (maybe even with Laetitia Morelli’s), she has pets, but no cats, because they don’t fly well, she flies sitting in an armchair like everyone else, which is why she always has such long legs, the blondness of her hair turns to Venetian blond.

She still feels as isolated as in a stranger’s dream.

Even today, she says she doesn’t understand what’s going on.

What’s at stake is the unconscious in a work of art.

When Anne Beigbeder Sollis consciously wants something, she doesn’t get it. On the other hand, if she lets herself go, she achieves her non-goals. She works on these moments of absence, mixing intuition and mysticism, and transforming the extraordinary in ordinary things, the infinite in what is supposed to be finite. Her themes are lighter, and so are her working tools, adopting the 4-colour pen. Anne Beigbeder Sollis likes large formats composed of superimposed sheets assembled like a puzzle, or rather a tear, but more aesthetic, fragility laid bare…. The more you look, the more you see.

The question is, what do we see in what we look at?

It’s physical, philosophical, meditative too, ‘If I were given a blank sheet of paper, I’d have a hard time figuring out what to do with it. I need reality, observation”, paradoxically she moves forward blindly. Her drawing is intuitive, instinctive, free of any academic constraint. She no longer draws, she writes her paintings, the relationship with time and distance are inseparable. Her large-format, large-scale “vanitas”, contemporary Gothic stained-glass windows, illegible and chaotic up close, become clearer as you move away from them. Fascinating interest in formatting, symbolic domination, submission? To understand his work, you need to step back, as you do in life.

Anne Beigbeder Sollis doesn’t think straight, draw straight or write straight – it’s all about suggestion. She loves the idea of energy expended “at a loss”.

Drawing becomes writing, underlining the narrative and symbolic aspects of her work. Each stroke, each color, becomes a word in a personal language that she invents. Anne Beigbeder Sollis appropriates space and gives form to her thoughts, creating a sensation of depth and duration. Time seems to stretch, space to expand.

2023 – Chesterfield, Paris Design Week, Bienvenue Design, Hotel La Louisiane

2022 – Elle, Cube Gallery, Patras,Grèce

2017 – Vivant, Hôtel Bouriennes, Paris

2017 – Zoocryptage, Crypte Sainte Eugénie, Biarritz (group show with Bartholomé Togo, Omar Ba, in collaboration with Philipe Djian – French Writer).
2016 – A night with Miki, Marienia, Guéthary (1month residency)

2016 – Vivant, Hotel Bourrienne, Paris
2016 – 4 couleurs, Eglise Saint Merry, (solo) Paris
2013 – Moite, moite, moite, Espace13, Bussdels(solo)
2012 – Moite, moite, moite, Musée de Guéthary, France (solo)
2010 – End of Education, Recyclart, Brussels (group show).
2009 – De Genero, Ernest Lluch Kultur Etxea, San Sebastian, Spain.
( collective exposition violence against women)
2008 – Blue Bruise, Carré Bonnat, Bayonne, France.
2006 – Novart , Biennale de Peinture, Bordeaux (group show)
2002 – Space Contemporary Gallery, Bangkok (duo)
2001 – Artitude gallery, Paris (group show)
2002 – La Coupole Montparnasse, Paris (solo)
2001 – Shangshan Art Center, Shanghai (group show)
1998 – Current under-current, Brooklyn Museum , USA
1998 – Parsons Gallery, New York, NY. USA (group show)

2019 – 2022– Art education teacher, European schools, Brussels
2018 – Socio-cultural education teacher, Athénée Royal André Thomas, Brussels
2017 – Mural for the Impasse de la Défense showroom Par
2011-2012
-Art education teacher, Lycée Émile Max, Brussels
-Teaches and commissions the exhibition: “Paroles d’élèves hors des murs”,
Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek.
2009 – Mural for the Impasse de la Défense showroom Paris
2007-2008
-Art teacher, private lessons
-Dossier preparation, drawing and painting courses for admission to art schools.
2006 – Illustrations for the magazine Hermes-Fondation Sabino Arana, historical issue (n° 20)
on the theme of “E.T.A.’s permanent ceasefire”. Bilbao, Spain
2005 – Mural for the House of Culture, Paramonga, Peru
2004-2008
-Art teacher, Bayonne-Biarritz-Anglet Art School
-Teaches painting theory and practice to students preparing for the grandes écoles d’art.
-Teaches live models and painting for adults, workshops with a theme and group critique.
Follow-up of baccalaureate students in visual arts, elaboration of their port folios, critique and oral
and oral presentations.
-Creation of a pedagogical project for the Biarritz DNAP (national school of applied arts), drawing and color courses, construction of theoretical and practical courses.
-Thematic workshops, drawing and painting, for teenage students.

2003-2004 – Creation, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2000-2001
-Volunteer art teacher (painting and drawing), “Los brasos” orphanage,
Dominican Republic
– Art teacher (drawing and painting), Paramunga, Peru
1997 – Mural for La Moquette, premises of the “Les Compagnons de la Nuit” association, Paris
1996 – Mural for the House of Culture in Paramonga, Peru

2009-2010
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Master 2 specialisation drawing option.
Thesis: “Moite, moite, moite. Hair as a support for the capillarity of dreams”.
Research theme: the unconscious in the creative process.

1995-2001
Parsons School of Design-New School University, New York NY, USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts painting option (BFA) 2001.

1996-1997
6-month BFA internship in Paramonga, Peru
Teaching in an Indian environment. Participates in the creation of the “Yachayhuasi” House of Culture to promote Indian arts and culture.