Claudine Loquen
{{short description|French painter and sculptor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Claudine Loquen
| image = Claudine Loquen artiste peintre.jpg
| caption = Loquen in 2018
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1965|2|22}}
| birth_place = Sainte-Adresse (Seine Maritime), France
| nationality = French
| field = Painting, sculpting, drawing
| movement = Naïve art, outsider art
| awards = Jean Anouilh award;
Naive Art award
}}
Claudine Marie Claire Loquen (born 1965), known as Claudine Loquen [Klodin loʊkən], is a French painter in the naïve style.Bible of singular art (La bible de l'art singulier), Ed. Lelivredart, 2011=isbn 978-2-35532-076-7
Several of her works are held in French and foreign museums (Musée Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise, Musée international d'art naïf in Magog, Musée d'art spontané in Brussels).{{Cite web|url=https://musee-art-spontane.be/claudine-loquen/|title = Loquen Claudine|date = 18 February 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnaifmagog.com/collections/index.php/Search/objects/Index?search=Claudine+Loquen+|title=Musée International d'Art_Naïf de Magog : Search Objects : Claudine Loquen}}
Biography
=Early life=
File:Au café des joues rouges - Claudine Loquen.jpg
Loquen is born in Sainte-Adresse (Normandy) on 22 February 1965.Luis Porquet, Les affiches de Normandie, 2018-issn=1145-8488 She studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Le Havre.[https://www.claudine-loquen.com/biographie.htm Biography]
=Career=
Image:Les Deux Magots, 25 September 2019.jpg
In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café Les Deux Magots in Paris.Café Les Deux Magots, Paris
Colombe Anouilh, on 8 December 2014, awarded her the Jean Anouilh prize for her work on canvas Young women with wolves (Jeunes filles aux loups) presented at the Salon d'automne, in Paris. In 2021, still at the Salon d'Automne, she was awarded the Naive Art prize for a painting
In the shadow of the flowering maidens (A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs).
From 2021, she presides over the Naive Art section at the Salon d'automne in Paris, bringing together some twenty artists from the naive art
=Themes=
Loquen mainly paints women and historical figures, drawing her inspiration from literature, history, poetry and fairytales.
She has made the wolf her animal symbol.{{Cite web|url=https://musee-art-spontane.be/claudine-loquen/|title = Loquen Claudine|date = 18 February 2021}}
Gemellity and sorority are also recurring themes in her work.
Selected exhibitions
=Solo exhibitions=
- 2023 : Sisters...and stories, Centre Culturel Jean-Pierre Fabrègue, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France
- 2021 : Wolves, Les peintres du Marais Galery, Paris
- 2019 : La maison de l'Etang, Louveciennes, France
- 2019 : The ladies of the Andelys, Musée Nicolas Poussin, Les Andelys, France{{Cite web|url=https://www.lelivredart.com/2019/03/22/exposition-claudine-loquen-au-musee-nicolas-poussin-les-andelys/|title=Exposition Claudine Loquen au musée Nicolas Poussin (Les Andélys) | Les éditions Lelivredart}}
- From 2018 to 2023 : Galery Rollin, Rouen, France
- 2016 : As long as there are wolves, Museum of Spontaneous Art, Brussels, Belgium
- 2011 : Singular portraits, Sénat, Pavillon Davioud, Le Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
- 2003 : Café Les Deux Magots, Paris
=Paris salons=
- 2024 : Salon Figuration Critique, Bastille design Center, Paris, France
- 2019 : Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, France
- From 2017 to 2025 : Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- From 2015 to 2016 : Salon des artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- From 2010 to 2019, 2024, 2025 : Salon d'Automne, Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
- 2021, 2022 : Salon d'Automne, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
=Group exhibitions=
- 2023 : Edith Stein Museum, Amplitude project, Salon d'Automne, Lubiniec, Poland
- 2023 : Masta Jaworzna Museum, Amplitude project, Salon d'Automne, Jaworzno, Poland
- 2023 : International Museum of Naive Art of Magog, If I were told the story of France..., Canada
- 2022 : The National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne, Tokyo, Japon
- 2019 : International Children's Art Museum, Salon d'automne, Xi'an, China
- 2016 : National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne à Tokyo, Japon
- 2016 : International Museum of Naive Art of Magog, Imaginaïves, Canada
- 2012 : Hainan Museum, Salon d'automne, Haikou, China
- 2011 : Museum of Spontaneous Art, Evere, Belgium
See also
Bibliography
- Frédérique-Anne Oudin (preface), 2020, Les oubliées, Tome 1, éditions La Grisette, 36 p {{ISBN|978-2-9557039-1-5}}
- Luis Porquet (preface) 2018, Loquen, 18 p {{ISBN|978-2-9557039-9-1}}
- Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, (preface), 2011, Claudine Loquen, Portraits singuliers. Paris : éditions Lelivredart, 28 p
- HeleneCaroline Fournier, (preface), 2011, Sénat, Portraits singuliers, Claudine Loquen. Québec : Art Total Multimédia, 20 p {{ISBN|978-2-923622-11-8}}
- IIeana Cornea, (preface), textes de Sylvie Loquen, 2008, Claudine Loquen. éditions Lelivredart, 40 p {{ISBN|9782355320187}}
- HeleneCaroline Fournier, (preface), 2008, Claudine Loquen. Québec : Art Total Multimedia
- Jean-Louis Redval (preface), 2004, Loquen, éditions Sémios, 44 p
Notes and references
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External links
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- [http://www.claudine-loquen.com Official website]
- [http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/auteurs/claudine-loquen Ricochet.org]
- [http://data.bnf.fr/15621107/claudine_loquen/#rdt440-15621107 BnF]
- [http://www.art-culture-france.com/fiche_artiste.php?id_artiste=22644#ad-image-0 ''Art-Culture-France']
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