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Sylvie Auvray

BornNationalityBased In
1974FrenchParis
Biography

Sylvie Auvray is a visual artist based in Paris. Auvray plays with different materials and techniques including paintings, bronze, plaster and aluminium sculptures and ceramics. Working on various scales ranging from the large to the miniscule, she combines primitive forms with sharp and strident colours. Ceramics allows Sylvie Auvray to model with vivacity ductile and pleasant volumes, while the textures can be strained, curled, triturated, and the shiny enamels can be painted, poured and interpenetrated, with the bonus of the excitement of the magical surprises that will be brought by the firing. Her works, including wearable items such as jewelry and masks and totems taking on human and animal forms, have a nostalgic narrative quality, and at the same time are imbued with energy by the formless childhood fears, barbaric experiments, and destructive joys evoked by their bizarre wounds and disturbing deformations. ...

Selected Artworks
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Sylvie Auvray
Untitled, 2021
230 x 100cm
Devil
Sylvie Auvray
Devil, 2023
34 x 9 x 2cm
Untiled
Sylvie Auvray
Untiled, 2018
61 x 10 x 10cm
Platre 3
Sylvie Auvray
Platre 3, 2023
50 x 48 x 5cm
Oiseau
Sylvie Auvray
Oiseau, 2024
15 x 6 x 6cm
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Sylvie Auvray
Untitled, 2024
45 x 20cm
Gallery Representation
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