Louise Giamari 
Introduction
In her sculpture, Louise Giamari renders the tangible bonds, links that tie the vegetable and the animal to the vast realm of the living in nature. Her creatures have the gift of nothingness because they belong to a peculiar no man's land, an unusual transversal border beyond time and space.
Louise Giamari : a few landmarks
Since her first shows which took place at the end of the 1980's, Louise Giamari's compelling works have been displayed in important theme related exhibitions in France, Belgium and Japan.
Curriculum vitae
Exhibitions
2008
Louise Giamari - Sophie Rocco, “La Traversée du miroir”, galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris
2007
“La Part d'ombre”, galerie idées d'artistes, Paris
“Duo”, centre d'art de Thann, France
“Intranquille Amour”, galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris
Mammuti, île de Ré, France (collective exhibition)
“L'usine de Zabukovec” (collective exhibition)
2006
Abbaye de Auberive, J.C. Volot's collection
Artists in Residence “Mino Paper Village Project Japon” for the 10 year celebration
Galerie Ardital Aix en Provence, France
Cloître des Billettes (collective exhibition)
2005
Pontigny abbey, France
“La nuit blanche “, cloître des Billettes, Paris townhall
Fondation Taylor
2004
Galerie Pascal Van Hoecke at Lathams et Watkins's Quai d’Orsay 75007 Paris
Festival d’Art contemporain of Normandie, France
Collective exhibition, cloître des Billettes, Paris
2003
Artsénat “Animal et territoire “, Paris
“La Faune et la Flore “, musee d’Histoire naturelle “La Faune et la Flore “, Paris
Townhall of Tremblay-en-France
2002
St’ Art with Pascal Van Hoecke gallery
"Végétal", centre d’art de Verderonne, with Caroline Corre
Exhibition of the prize-winners of the Prix Jean Renoir Galerie du Minotaure, Paris
Exhibition of the prize-winners of the Prix Jean Renoir, Galerie du passage, Troyes
2001
Bazouges/Pérouse, France
“Au-delà du corps”, Aixes/Vienne, France (collective exhibition)
“Les rencontres du cadran” initiated by Lydie Arickx, Saint-Geours-de-Marennes (collective exhibition)
2000
“Village d’artistes”, Rablay sur Layon, France
“Traverses”, Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Lizier, Ariège, France
Exposition personnelle Galerie Lillebonne, Nancy, France
Bad Oeynhausen Symposium, Allemagne
1999
Artists in Residence “Mino Paper Village Project”, Japon
“Coup de coeur”, Espace Cardin, Paris
Association Renoir, Essoyes, France
Contemporary sculpture, Riviers castle, France
“Animal”, musee Bourdelle, Paris
Galerie Pascal Van Hoecke, Paris
1998
Winner of the Fondation Renoi, Essoyes, France
Prix Christiane et Charles Oulmont, Paris
Biennale d’Art contemporain, Nîmes, France
Townhall of Lillebonne, Seine-Maritime, France
Artmalgam : “Du vegetal à l’animal”, Cloître des Billettes, Paris
Contemporary Art Fair of Gand with Pascal Van Hoecke gallery
“Animal”, Tremblay-en-France castle
1997
“Le Nu”, Galerie Nicole Buck, Strasbourg, France
“Les Chiens d’artistes”, Galerie Brûlée, Strasbourg, France
St’ Art, with Arlette Gimaray gallery
Centre d’Art Espace Saint-Jacques, Saint-Quentin, France
Biennale de Tenri, Japon
MAC 2000, Paris
1996
Salon Art ’95
Galerie L’Autre Musée, Bruxelles
Galerie Art et Patrimoine, Paris
Salon de Mai, Paris
1995
Salon d’Art contemporain de Bagneux, France
Salon d’Art contemporain de Montrouge, France
Biennale les “109”, Paris
Salon “Jeune Peinture”, Paris
Centre regional d’art contemporain de Rosny-sur-Seine, France
1994
Galerie Arlette Gimaray, Paris
Salon de l’Ephémère “Les découvertes”, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
Salon d’Art contemporain de Bagneux, France
Salon “Jeune peinture”, Paris
“L’Art dans L’Orne” au Château de Sérans, France
Animal biennial, Rambouillet (Prix “Jeune Talent”)
1993
Galerie Arlette Gimaray, Paris
“Jeune Peinture” show , Paris
Salon de l’Ephémère, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
Hanoï with Fine Arts School of Hanoï and Alliance Française
1992
Salon Comparaisons, Expressionism group of Lydie Arickx
Biennial of the William Harvey Centre, France
1991
Internationale Contemporary Art Biennial, Brignoles, France
XVIIIe Art, Paris
1989
59th “Printemps de Clichy” show
Galerie d’Argenson, Paris (collective exhibition)
10th Salon d’Art Plastique de Marne-la-Vallée
1988
Mediterranean Biennial for Modern Art
1987
Galerie de la Maison des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Salon “Juin”, La Celle Saint-Cloud, France
Publishing
"Stultifera Navis", août 1999, exhibition catalog, Essoyes
"Les Contre-feux", 2003, exhibition catalog, Tremblay-en-France
Chat
Statements
"No angel made by Louise Giamari, but infinitely crushed creatures, in human semblance, surviving of dismay. They populate a heavy, first, colossal art, where the man and the animal are indistinct, love and support each other, in the sexual height of horror and sweetness. Louise Giamari gets rid of almost everything, and, at first, of the overflow of the human being, crushed by gadgets and by surfaces which are the killers of the soul. Utterly destitute, where the poverty of materials imposes a striking dry contemplation, stunning by strength and dull emotion."
Christian Noorbergen
"The artist delivers no message. She doesn't want to be situated and by this way, she finds the thread of the history of sculpture which goes from grace to gravity, borrowing in Arte Povera the sinuous forms of deprived bodies and recumbent figures, between the register of the formless and the representation."
Bernard Goy, general delegate of the FRAC Ile-de-France
"The characters of Giamari can easily form groups. They can be solitary also, and always, they have the power to magnetize the surrounding space. We really see only them, and we cannot cut off from them because they are certainly not representations but surely presences."
Jean-Luc Chalumeau
"Her works, these characters stemming from a strange bestiary, seem to have stopped, congealed, as if, in an unconscious geography, they had finally found their place. Whatever they are, centaurs, dogs, gooses, rats, men-birds, these ambivalent beings appear like some mummies of the memory, put back in clay to mean better the unstoppable fragility of the human being."
Anne Le Moal
