Caroline Demangel

Caroline Demangel

As a self-taught artist, drawing came into Caroline Demangel's life, like this sudden and obvious encounters. “In the following months, she writes, I kept isolating myself to reproduce visions that I didn’t even imagine a moment before. […] It was the unfolding, the hatching of something that I am still exploring at the moment”.
Multi-faceted characters emerge from the circular movements of her pencil, jostled by the energetic and fragile strokes of pastel, in a collision of violent and contradictory emotions. Duplications, juxtapositions, crossing-outs and tint areas constitute the elements of her syntax. In the colourful proliferation of her drawings, signs and words are an integral part of the composition and loudly express the urges of anger, anguish, and desire.
Born in 1977, Caroline Demangel has been exhibiting her sketches for several years, first at the Christophe Gaillard gallery in Paris, and especially in Lyon at the Chartier gallery. Since 2012, she is represented by the gallery Polad-Hardouin.

Exhibitions

2015
dRAW Institute, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago
Rhizome : New Growth, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York

2014
Souffle, Gallery Polad-Hardouin, Paris (solo show)

2013
Mi-Temps, Gallery Polad-Hardouin, Paris

2012
Catharsis, Gallery Polad-Hardouin, Paris
40 artists 40 works, Galery Henri Chartier, Lyon

2011
Gallery Henri Chartier, Lyon 

2010
Gallery Christophe Gaillard "Eros", Paris

2009
Museum d'Art Brut Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris

Fairs

2016
Outsider Art Fair New York, Galerie Polad-Hardouin

2015  
Outsider Art Fair New York, Galerie Polad-Hardouin

2014
Outsider Art Fair Paris, Galerie Polad-Hardouin