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

movement.{{Cite web | url=https://www.salon-automne.com/fr/le-salon/2022/art-naif | title=Le Salon d'Automne | Art naïf }}

=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=

=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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