Artists from La Ciotat
LA CIOT'ART
Bring art into your company.
Our aim: to make art accessible!
Art Investissement is pleased to announce a new partnership with La Ciotat Entreprendre, a dynamic association that brings together more than 300 Ciotadian businesses.
Stimulate emotion in your daily life with works of art that will make your workplace as unique as you are!
That's the challenge we're taking on by launching.
La Ciotat'Art,
The concept is simple:
We display selected works of art free of charge and under our responsibility for a period of 2 months, so that you can share them with your employees, partners and customers.
At the end of this period, it's up to you to continue the adventure by renting, leasing or simply purchasing.
You can also return the work, but you should be aware that you will be making a lot of people unhappy.
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Philippe Le Guillou
This Breton is fascinated by stones, menhirs and dolmens, which stimulate his imagination and inspiration. His father, often away at sea, left him his workbench and tools. At the age of 17, he tackled an oak log with a chisel and a drill - his first sculpture. At 24, in the magical forest of Brocéliande, he carved tortuous stumps. After many long journeys, he settled in La Cadière d'Azur.
It was through his many travels that Philippe found his inspiration. In the USA, he discovered the art totems of the native Indians, and in Morocco, the craftsmen of Essaouira encouraged him as an artist.
The art of sculpture is present everywhere: Sri Lankan temples, Polynesian tikis, Madagascan mahafale tombs and Maori pirogues.
The masks of African art have deeply moved him with their emotional and mystical charge. Ever since he was a child, he has observed the sky, the geometry of stars and galaxies as well as molecules, a question of scale. For him, the best artist is Nature, and the wind-sculpted rocks of Antarctica, the rock formations of Tassili or a simple pool of dried mud offer as much inspiration as the sea.
He admires artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Matta, Eduardo Chillida, Archipenko, Constantin Brancusi, Marx Ernst, César, Antony Gormley, Armand..., and the masters of contemporary Aboriginal art.
He is passionate about all materials, each with its own specificity.
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Philippe Arène-Domenge
I've been drawing since I was a child and painting since I was 16, having studied at the Atelier Penninghen and the Académie Julian.
I've explored figuration and abstraction in different styles and techniques, but in 2014 I voluntarily questioned my work, deciding to go for the essential: to paint what I love, emotions, and to do it with exacting standards to force myself to seek and move forward... therefore, confronting facture and representation, abstraction and emotion.
So as not to lie to myself by painting the same picture several times in different formats, thereby putting off the real work of research for the sake of convenience, I have decided, on the one hand, to paint faces and their emotions, and on the other, abstractions and abstract landscapes in a style consistent with the portraits, using the same technique, the same manner, always in a square format of one metre by one metre.
So these strict requirements force me to be inventive all the time, without being able to use too many tricks.
I hope this method bears fruit!
Philippe ARÈNE-DOMENGE
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Céline Sassatelli
Collage is "art in movement that challenges painting", as Aragon put it.
For me, it's the result of an irrepressible impulse and a vital drive that draws on my personal mythology.
Tearing, crumpling, gluing and folding means writing with images, painting without drawing, inventing a world, 'sticking' to the world.
As a self-taught artist, I've always collected images, using old newspapers, magazines and books from which I draw my models.
I always find the need to compose with 4 elements:
posters or magazine pages that have been torn up, cut up and broken up
graphic backgrounds from the 50s and 60s, with their geometric shapes, colour harmonies and universal aestheticism
women (from the 30s to the 70s) -
Odile Eckenschwiller
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Michael Viviani
Michael Viviani was born in La Ciotat in 1981.
In 2003, he obtained a diploma in visual communication and graphic arts from the Axe Sud school in
Marseille.
His work is heavily inspired by film and music posters, which he uses to meticulously reproduce the life of a street billboard. His practice, notably laceration, has developed through a myriad of painting techniques combined with text. Navigating between the present and the past, his work pleases our eyes with the illusion and superimposition of collages. Viviani succeeds harmoniously in fusing an abundance of torn posters into a new narrative, sincerely presenting a frozen moment in time to the viewer.
The artist has branched out into new mediums such as sculpture and furniture, with a nod to technology.
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Gilbert Ganteaume
Gilbert Ganteaume is a French painter and sculptor born on 12 October 1932 in La Ciotat. His work develops in a representative intention by using the means of abstraction and matierism. Gilbert Ganteaume came from an old Ciotadenne family and was born in the workers' housing estate (demolished in 1974). In 1946, he enrolled at the shipyard apprenticeship school where his father taught. There he learned to work with metal, cutting, welding, drilling and shaping iron at the forge, and obtained a CAP in hull tracing. At the age of 35, he was awakened to culture and his wife gave him his first paintbrushes. His artistic soul revealed itself and he created his own style, which would constantly evolve. His strength: materials, layers and collages. His paintings and sculptures reflect the history of La Ciotat. A dozen of his works are displayed around the town (memorial for asbestos victims, paintings in the church. Monument for peace etc)
In 2023, the giant ships he built during his working life came to life as sculptures, and the transformations of the converted naval site came to life in his optimistically coloured paintings, echoing the rebirth of the site.
