Marie-Anita Gaube(b. 1986, France) began painting following a scholarship to the Centro national de las Artes in Mexico in 2010-2011; then she graduated from the Ecole nationale des BeauxArts de Lyon in 2012. Due to so many stories fuelling her imagination, at an early stage Marie-Anita Gaube chose painting in its most figurative dimension. Since the very outset in 2012, the artist has produced bright and colourful paintings, buzzing with a myriad of details filling her favoured large formats, immersing viewers in her world to the maximum. An Edenic world where everything seems to serve as a reminder of the joys of being alive: lush environments, strange trees and birds of paradise, surnatural waterfalls, transparent lakes and sun loungers form the recurring settings of idyllic scenes. Her compositions juxtapose heterogeneous elements. Eisenstein’s movies made a big impression on her work; like this filmmaker she speak of his desire to create a visual frenzy through her editing. This hysterical, restless and somewhat disturbing dimension is evident in the way she creates her paintings. The notion of rhythm and musicality is essential in her compositions and the chromatic dimension of her painting. Her work questions notions of heterotopias, which, as defined by Michel Foucault, represents “other spaces” inscribed in reality.s. rather than an utopian dream. Living in her imagination is not a means for escape or withdrawal, but in fact a response to the world surrounding us. Painting becomes a space of protest, a place for utopian projections or fantasies within society. By linking these disseminated worlds, she accommodates contradictions and tensions. Imbued with perceptible vital energy, more hidden concerns seem to pervade her work. Something strange emanates from these people captured in positions with obscure purposes; these bodies that are a little lost in the landscape absorbing them at times to the point of concealment.
Solo exhibitions include Troubles fêtes- Galerie Veyssière (Tours, France) (2023); Landscapes of the soul- Anne+ art contemporain (Paris) (2022); Odyssées- CCC OD (Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France) comissariat Isabelle Reiher (2020/2021); Passeurs-Vog centre d’art contemporain de Fontaine (Isère,France) (2020/2021); Meeting point- Galerie Françoise Besson, Lyon (France) ( 2017); At the landscape’s corner-Progress Gallery, Paris (France) (2016);
Out Of Place Esox-Lucius Château de Grandvaux, (71) ( 2016); Nouvelles Aires- Galerie Françoise Besson - Lyon ( France) (2015); Dérives- Progress Gallery - Paris (France) (2014).
Group exhibitions include à venir: lkon Gallery, Birmingham (Royaume-Uni), 25 /09/2024 au 23/02/2025 (2024-2025); Friends in Love and War-L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es- MAC LYON (Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon(france) Comissariat Marilou la Neuville et Melanie Pocock (2024); Rencontre., duo show, Le Garage, centre d’art d’Amboise , 28/06 - 15/09/2024 (37, FR) comissariat Clémence Thiebaud (2024); Illusions- Fondation François Schneider (Watwiller France), comissariat Marie Terrieux (2023-2024); De l’autre côté du miroir, galerie le Réservoir, Paris, France (2023-2024); Varia” Centre d’art contemporain de Meymac, Meymac, France, comissariat J.Paul Blanchet (2022); Secrets de fabrique, musée Paul dini (69) comissariat Sylvie Carlier (2022); Constellations, DDA-RA, Bourse du travail, Valence (2021); De la peinture, espace 29, Bordeaux (2021); 10 ans de Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Maison du Livre, de l’image et son (Villeurbanne, 69). (2020); Nature et figure, oeuvres de collection du musée paul Dini, 28/03/ au 20/09, Musée Paul Dini (69), comissariat Sylvie Carlier (2020); Elles, question de genre?», 21/03/ au 22/09/, Musée Paul Dini, Villefranche sur Saône, (France). Commissariat Sylvie Carlier, Fanny Robin. (2019); Chacun son trait, 11/04 au 08/06, Galerie Françoise Besson, Lyon (France) (2019); Commissariat Sophie Matter, Françoise Besson (2019); Invitations, 28/04 au 25/08, Centre d’art de Lacoux, Hauteville Lompnes (France) (2019); Commissariat Marc Desgrandchamps et Djamel Tatah (2019); Du voyage, l’oeuvre», (06/19) Archipel art contemporain, Saint Gervais (France) Commissariat Emma Legrand (2019); Les nouveaux sauvages, halles du Faubourg, Lyon, (France) (2018); Un peu avant la traversée, Fonderie du Péroux, Biziat, (France) (2018); Accross the landscape, Den nordiske ambassade, Copenhague, (Dannemark) (2018); Exposition inaugurale, Hors Cadre, Bastille designe center,Paris (France) (2018); Throught the mirror, duo show, Next Level galerie, Paris (France) (2017); Le vent souffle où il veut, Galerie Françoise Besson ,Lyon (France) (2017); Exposition de fin de résidence/ Ateliers du Plessix Madeuc- Abbaye de Lehon (22) (2017); Art Paris Art Fair / Galerie Françoise Besson (2015); Slick Art fair, Paris / avec Progress Gallery Paris (France) (2015); OV galerie- Lyon (France) (2014); Uncivilized Festival - Lyon (France) / Sub-situ - Lyon (France) (2013); Sub-situ - Lyon (France) 2011 -Galeria de arte contemporaneo Veracruz (Mexico) (2012); Cenart Mexico (Mexico) (2011);
Highlights and collections
She has recently featured curated shows at the François Schneider Foundation, MAC Lyon, CCCOD in Tours as well in England (IKON gallery, Birmingham), Denmark, Mexico and France (art gallerys and institutions). In 2022 she was awarded a prize by François Schneider Foundation and by the Colas Foundation in 2015.