Born in Strasbourg in 1985, in 2011 and 2012 Flore Sigrist was one of Artprice's 30 most highly-rated artists under 30 in contemporary painting, reaching second place in 2012.
Nothing in her immediate environment foreshadowed the exceptional destiny that was to follow. Her entry into the world of life threw her brutally into the world of suffering: she spent her first three years between home and hospital, which may well have been the origin of her remarkable predisposition for painting and her true vocation in the field.
One of her first works, a gouache on paper produced at the age of 8, stunned the public at a children's exhibition.
In March 2013, a 150×150 cm work fetched $134,500 at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
Buoyed by the success of its first exhibition in Lyon, Galerie des Tuiliers has chosen to showcase the remarkable work of this young and talented artist in a new solo show in Brussels, where Flore's talent and expressive power will be expressed.
From her quasi-monochromatic canvases to the explosions of color in the Jardins series, Flore Sigrist's painting leaves no one indifferent. The eye is sometimes drawn to geometric shapes, reminiscent of the figures and beings who populate her canvases, though it's hard to be certain.
Her strong, moving art straddles the border between the abstract and the figurative.
“Flore Sigrist is the most unusual artist I have come across in my career as an artist. There is no common denominator with other painters, no possible connection; she remains alone in her often dreamlike visions, for which her formidable memory gives her genius impulses. She has never learned technique, and she possesses it to the hilt; she has never learned colors, and she combines them to perfection; she has never learned divine proportion, and we find it in every one of her paintings.
Any viewer of Flore's work enters a world of creative magic, where joy, anger, sadness and melancholy mingle, but above all a ferocious appetite for life, a rage of love for all that surrounds her: people, nature, modernity. Let's let ourselves be led through these artistic meanderings and open our eyes wide, rediscovering the naive gaze of a child discovering a treasure”.
Alain Renner (Vice-President, Sotheby's France)
