- Born in 1978, Christine Auger is a French painter of Contemporary Abstract Expressionism based in Paris. After studies at ESAD (École supérieure d'Art et Design de Reims), Atelier de Sèvres (Paris) and ESADS (École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg) in mid-1990s, she pursued a career of painting and graphic design. In early 2000s, she developed a unique blend of traditional pigment-based techniques with every-day materials like scotch tape and digital acquisition / printing technologies, in order to create transparent miniatures which are then printed or projected at any size. A process explored in the 2015 short documentary "Christine Auger", directed by Anatoly Ivanov. Her work focuses on the relevancy of abstract painting in the post-modern world and on the non-intellectual interaction with art.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anatoly IVANOV .com
- Parents used to scotch tape her mouth shut in childhood, she now uses scotch tape as the main substrate of her paintings.
- Developed the idea to use scotch tape as the canvass of her paintings while watching Anatoly Ivanov, who, as a still photographer, in 1999, was developing his 35 mm film in rolls and then editing it with scissors. 15 years later, as a cinematographer / director, Anatoly Ivanov shot a documentary "Christine Auger" about the whole process.
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