Fabienne Verdier

Fabienne Verdier (born 1962, Paris, France) is a painter who lives and works in France.

Fabienne Verdier's artistic path has taken her through successive phases of research, all focused on her fundamental areas of interest, including the dynamism of forces of nature, the instantaneous and enduring, and movement and immobility. By adopting new tools and ever-larger brushstrokes, she proposes to enable viewers to better access the infinite world of energy and transformations she extensively explores.

Her latest research into the dynamics of forms has led her to explore possible links between music and painting, specifically between pictorial and sonic lines. As an artist in residence at the Juilliard School in New York City for several months, she worked with some of its foremost faculty members, including Darrett Adkins, Kenny Barron, William Christie, Philip Lasser and Edith Wiens, as well as with many students. A documentary by filmmaker Mark Kidel relating the extensive experiments carried out in Verdier’s studio-laboratory at Juilliard is expected to be released in 2016.

In 2014, the Pinakothek der Moderne of Munich invited Verdier to create an installation of seven works on the theme of transformation. Entitled Mélodie du réel, it was presented at the Herrenchiemsee Palace, together with key works by German and American artists from the museum’s permanent collection. Also that year, the city of Hong Kong organized the first retrospective of Verdier's work: over thirty-five paintings and drawings, loaned mainly by public and private collections and covering the last thirty years of her career, were exhibited at Hong Kong City Hall with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Finally, 2014 saw the completion of a 13-meter-high monumental painting inside the entrance to the new Majunga Tower at La Défense in Paris. The work was commissioned by Unibail-Rodamco, under the aegis of architect Jean-Paul Viguier.

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