Description
Through her work as a mosaicist, Béatrice Serre enjoys exploring civilisations, myths, nature and space. Her approach to her work can be summed up in the following quote : ” Stones are the messengers of time and mosaics are its history”.
For Béatrice Serre, art is first and foremost a philosophy. Her art is undoubtedly steeped of spirituality. The idea is to break the material to create chaos in order to rebuild, reassemble. To bring out and reveal something new and greater, something that will simply overwhelm us.
Her preferred materials are glass that she sculpts with japanese pliers, minerals with dreamy hues, slate and lava.
Sometimes other more original material colour her creations, such as shells, coffee beans or semi-precious stones. What is important is to make the artwork come alive, like an explosion, a pulse of life. The idea of Creation then takes on its full meaning.
Béatrice Serre likes to handle the most surprising materials with this underlying idea of texture. The artwork is brought alive thanks to the touch which goes from hot to cold, smooth to granulated or even grainy. For her, touch is essential because it contains all the other senses. In this sense, her works are fundamentally sensual.
Working simultaneously on volumes and materials, she practices visualization for a most hypnotic result.
She sees the work emerging and growing. From then on, the process is no longer mental but physical, when the hand overtakes the imagination. The gesture follows the thought, and sometimes precedes it, and thus the art of mosaic takes on its full meaning.
The Cosmos is intrinsically linked to her work. If mosaics are about details, the very small and patience, it is to bring it closer to what is bigger, to space.
The immensely big is linked to the very small, and when ceramics are made, even the smallest of the piece has its place.
Telluric, her work springs up, radiates, emits energies and invites us to dreamlike escape. Béatrice Serre works on each one of them with passion and instinct to create an alchemy and harmony in order to offer us works full of surprise that never cease to enchant and amaze us.
Training :
1991 High School of Sèvres, Applied Arts Tapestry option
1992/1994 National School of Applied Arts and Crafts, Paris, Diploma of Crafts in Architectural Decoration (fresco, lacquer, mosaic) – With honors
Exhibitions :
2022
Art Deco mosaic for the Manoir Cartier, New York, 2022
2021
AD in arteriectomies – Palais d’Ieana – Paris, September 23, 2021
2020
« NIGHT AND DAY, Tribute to Cole Porter and his piano,
Waldorf Astoria Hotel “The Towers”, New York Park Avenue, 09.02.20
2015
“BIG-BANG”, Michèle Hayem Gallery, Paris
2014
Realization of 12 monumental mosaics for an apartment in New York, collaboration with the decorator Jean-Louis Deniot
2013
International Contemporary Art Fair (SIAC), Marseille, France.
LA MAJD 7 ARTS, Victoria Continental Hotel, Dharampur, India
2012
International Contemporary Art Fair (SIAC), Marseille, France.
LA MAJD 7 ARTS, Victoria Continental Hotel, Dharampur, India.
Art in Capital, Grand Palais, Paris, France
“Artist of the World”, International Exhibition, Cannes, France
2011
Art in Capital, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
“Artist of the World”, International Exhibition, Cannes, France.
“The Painters of the Show”, Maison Radio France, Paris, France
2010
Gold Medal of French Merit and Dedication, Unesco Palace, Beirut, Lebanon
“Le Nu”, Pavilion of Contemporary Art, New York, USA.
World Expo, Shanghai, China.
Waldorf Hilton, London, UK.
“The Painters of the Show”, Maison Radio France, Paris, France
2009
“The Great Masters of Tomorrow” – Honorary Artist, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2008
Armed Forces Crafts Fair
2006
“The Painters of the Show”, Maison Radio France, Paris, France
2005
“The Painters of the Show”, Maison Radio France, Paris, France.
International Academy of Lutèce, Gold Medal, Paris, France
2002
International Contemporary Art Fair (SIAC), Marseille, France
Salon Lucie Faure, National Assembly, Paris, France
Armed Forces Crafts Fair
Fine Arts Fair, Mosaic Prize, Toulon, France
2001
Salon Lucie Faure, National Assembly, Paris, France
National Maritime Museum, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France
French Academy ARTS-SCIENCES-LETTERS, Bronze Case, Paris, France
2000
International Exhibition of Contemporary Mosaic, Strasbourg, France
International Mosaic Fair, Chartres, France
1999
International Academy of Lutèce, Vermeil Medal, Paris, France
Grand Prize at the Salon des Créateurs d’Aujourd’hui, Vichy, France
Riviera Painting and Sculpture Academy, Prestige Cup, Nice, France
Armed Forces Crafts Fair
Fine Arts Fair, Mosaic Prize, Grand Prix, Toulon, France
1998
Grand Prix de Prestige of the Salon des Créateurs d’Aujourd’hui, 1st Prize, Lyon, France
Armed Forces Crafts Fair
Salon des Beaux-Arts, Mosaic Prize, 1st Jury Prize, Toulon, France
International Mosaic Fair, Chartres, France
1997
1st Decoration Prize for Mercure Hotels, Paris, France
1995
Peace Movement “Arts and Peace”, 1st Public Prize of the City of Nanterre, France
1993
Salon des Artisans, Neauphle-le-Château, France.