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- Caroline Achaintre (born December 1969) is a mixed media artist living and working in London.
- Born in France in 1969, raised in Germany and based in England, Caroline Achaintre attended the Kunsthochschule in Halle, then the Chelsea College of Art and.
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Artist, born in Toulouse, France, who graduated with a master’s degree in fine art from Goldsmiths’ College in 2003. Her group exhibitions included Acid Rain, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France; Contropop, Vamiali’s, Athens, Greece; and The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. She also made solo shows for spaces including Lawrence O’Hana and Mirko Mayer Galerie, Cologne, Germany. In 2005, she had her first major solo exhibition in a publicly funded gallery with DEEDIE, at The Showroom. Achaintre’s work was described as “portraiture of near monsters”, as a result of her development of twisted and glamorised imagery from horror films and heavy metal graphics. The Showroom exhibition included two large-scale, hand-tufted rugs, gestural woodcuts and subtle digital and watercolour drawings.
Achaintre lived in London.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
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File Note 88: Caroline Achaintre
Caroline Achaintre: People Today
So many masks lie at the roots of modern art! Les Demoiselles d’Avignon would not exist as we know them without the African masks that Picasso saw at the Palais du Trocadéro ethnographic museum, which inspired the faces of two female figures in that legendary painting. In the same period, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other artists in Die Brücke group gave the faces they painted the jutting features of other tribal masks seen in anthropological museums: not just from Africa, in this case, but also from Inuit tribes and Oceania. Traditional Japanese masks were used to illustrate the Almanach (1912) of the other great German Expressionist group, Der Blaue Reiter. In Russia, Natalia Goncharova and other artists from the avant-garde group Jack of Diamonds turned their backs on Western figurative culture and sought inspiration in the kindly or terrifying expressions of Chinese masks, or the solemn features of the ritual masks used by Siberian shamans. But even before European artists discovered ‘primitive’ art, masks
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Caroline Achaintre
German-British artist
Caroline Achaintre (born December 1969) is a mixed media artist living and working in London.[1] Her work draws heavily on Animism, Expressionism, Theatricality and the Handmade .[2]
Born in Toulouse and brought up near Nuremberg, Achaintre obtained a scholarship at the Kunsthochschule in Halle, then came to London to study at the Chelsea College of Arts and then at Goldsmiths, University of London before establishing a studio in Homerton, East London.[3]
Much of her earlier work was in textiles, particularly wool, and Primitivist in style, though she has also worked in installation, and also in ink on paper and ceramics.[4][5] Much of this work draws on traditions of carnival and tribal masks and the potential to both attract and repulse through the materials.[6] She has held a number of residencies and exhibited in a number of locations, including London's Saatchi Gallery, Cell Project Space (London),[7][8] Birmingham's Eastside Projects, and as part o
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