Hermes
Technique: Mixed media on paper and plexiglass
Size: 150x120 cm
Private collection
Christine Comyn
°Tielt, BE, 1957
Education: Saint-Luke Academy, Ghent Professional artist since 1983
Short video "La douceur de L'ignorance" - Versailles
Video "The Myth of The Ultimate Creature": views in the artist's studio and exhibition views in the gallery in Knokke
WORKS IN PUBBLIC COLLECTIONS
City of Tielt (B)
Museum of the city of Lien (NL)
WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Members of the Belgian royal family; major member of the Château de Versailles’s management committee; the “Consul Général de France” in Belgium; Belgian top-class sportswomen Kim Clijsters and Kim Gevaert; and many others private Belgian and foreign collectors.
PUBLICATIONS
“Christine Comyn”, Ars Libris, 1997
“Christine Comyn”, Art In Belgium, 2000
“True Colours”, Museum Van Lien, 2003
“Christine Comyn”, Art In Belgium, 2006
“Marie Antoinette & La Douceur de l’Ignorance”, Lanoo, 2010
FILMS
“Horae”, 2007
“La Douceur de l’Ignorance”, 2010
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Agenda
| 2013 | Christine Comyn show new work, at Denise Mannaert, Dendermonde |
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| 2013 | Lille Art Fair |
| 2012 | Winter-Expo, Knokke & Bruges |
| 2012 | Art Gent, Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Ghent |
| 2012 | The Myth of the Ultimate Creature, at Denise Mannaert |
| 2011 | Winter-exhibition Knokke & Bruges |
| 2011 | Lineart Art Fair, Ghent, Flanders Expo |
| 2011 | Opening exhibition Zeedijk 806 |
| 2011 | Christine Comyn, The Myth Of The Ultimate Creature, Knokke |
| 2011 | Art Paris, Grand Palais, International art fair in Paris |
| 2011 | Galerie Mark Peet Visser, Eindhoven (NL) |
| 2010 | Lineart International Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Gent, BE |
| 2010 | Lineart International Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Ghent (B) |
| 2010 | Consulate of France in Antwerp (B) |
| 2010 | Rittarihuone (in collaboration with Breguet), Helsinki (FIN) |
| 2010 | Leonhard’s Gallery, Antwerp (B) |
| 2010 | “La Douceur de l’Ignorance” Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke (B) |
| 2010 | "La douceur de l'Ignorance", Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles (FR) |
| 2009 | “The Twilight Zone”, Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke (B) |
| 2009 | Galerie MPV, ’s Hertogenbosch (NL) |
| 2007 | Rittarhuset (in cooperation with Breguet), Stokholm (SWE) |
| 2007 | Leonhard’s Gallery, Antwerp (B) |
| 2006 | “Horae”, Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke & Brugge (B) |
| 2006 | Rittarihuone (in collaboration with Breguet), Helsinki (FIN) |
| 2006 | Galerie Elysées, Paris (FR) |
| 2006 | National Museum of Copenhagen (in cooperation with Breguet), Copenhagen (DNK) |
| 2004 | New York Art Expo, New York (USA) |
| 2004 | Ambiente & Tendence, Franfurter Messe, Frankfurt (DEU) |
| 2003 | “Retrospective exhibition”, Museum Van Lien, Fijnaart (NL) |
| 2002 | Ambiente & Tendence, Franfurter Messe, Frankfurt (DEU) |
| 2002 | “True Colours”, Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke & Brugge (B) |
| 2001 | Kunstrai, Amsterdam (NL) |
| 2000 | Manoir de l’ Engagiste, Orbec (FR) |
| 1999 | “Amazing Graces”, Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke & Brugge (B) |
| 1999 | Holland Art Fair, Den Haag (NL) |
| 1999 | Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida (USA) |
| 1998 | Palm Desert Art Gallery, Palm Desert, California (USA) |
| 1998 | Le Prix International d’ Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 1997 | Retrospective exhibition with first monograph in the Casino of Ostend (B) |
| 1993 | Miami Art Fair, Florida (USA) |
| 1993 | Art Gallery Villa d’ Arte, Barranquilla (COL) |
| 1992 | Europ Art, Genève (CHE) |
| 1988 | Thermae Palace, Ostend (B) |
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In the press
25 June 2011
Internet Magazine 7x7.com
The New Guard: 5 of the City's Most Exciting New Galleries
Article dealing with five new galleries in San Francisco, where The McLoughlin Gallery exhibits the work of Christine Comyn and Renaud Delorme.
Read more on the 7x7.com website
1 July 2010
Exit Magazine
Article
Interview with the artist about the exhibition "La Douceur de l'Ignorance".
Exit.pdf
7 May 2010
De Morgen
Marie-Antoinnette
Article dealing with the exhibition La Douceur de l'ignorance
Morgen.pdf
1 May 2010
Isel Magazine
La Douceur de l'ignorance
Text by Kristien Hemmerechts in Dutch and French.
Isel magazine.pdf
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