Ciou exhibition at the gallery of in the museum  » la Halle st Pierre », Paris, this show take part to the  » Hey! modern art & pop culture/ part 2″

For this show , twenty pieces of Ciou will be exhibited, 16 paintings and 4 drawings from 2012  to 2013

Halle st Pierre Museum : http://www.hallesaintpierre.org/

Ciou at the gallery of the museum La Halle St Pierre –  4 june- 7 july-

Opening 6th june PARIS, 18h30-21h

2013 : –  » The Witches Convention » –  » the Enchanted Ribbon  » – Mister Wallace ‘ Magician company –  » Le chaudron magique »- « Heart Spell »  -  » skull Spell » – « Moshi Moshi »  -

Ciou’s wondrous drawings are a recurring phenomenon on the walls of the KochxBos gallery. On Saturday, March 23rd, she will personally attend the opening of « A Spell on You », her third solo exposition in Amsterdam.
A spell On you, solo show :  23 rd march-20th April
Ciou’s scintillating darkness
Ciou (1981) was born and raised in Toulouse, the city in southern France, where she still lives and works. Her first important exposition was in 2004 in the Flux Factory in New York, after which shows followed in Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin and Seattle.

As was shown in the VPRO documentary « Sarah’s Barbaren », Ciou is inspired by a wondrous mix of music, pin ups, manga, primitive and religious art, art nouveau, tattoos, old toys and mexican culture. She succeeds brilliantly in melding all this into her own unique chimerical world which, despite its dark edges, has a scintillating character.

She often uses old books and writings as a canvas and paints over them in pen, ink and acrylic. For the pieces in « A Spell on You » she found an illustrated book, about magic , from 1924. Hereon she made a series of spectacular drawings, in her trademark style, with a dominant black delineation and small surfaces with brilliant colours. In this way Ciou combines an old fashioned technique with forms from our lightning-fast popular image culture.

As we can surmise from the name, the work in Ciou’s « A Spell on You » is about magic. Let yourself be enchanted by her precise pen-and-ink drawings of little girls and monsters, Ciou’s dark antithesis to all the My Little Pony and Pet Shop friends. As cute as children’s toys, but with jet-black eyes and razor-sharp teeth.

Ciou is represented by Kochxbos Gallery, if you want more info , purchase original artwork, please contact : gallery@kochxbos.nl

see the show online : http://www.kochxbos.nl/now.html

A Spell on you, solo show at kochxbos gallery, Amsterdam, NL,  opening 23 march

It will be the third solo show at Kochxbos gallery. For that show Magic, witches, spell and enchanted animals are represented on painting and drawing.

The Magazine zone 5300 from Netherlands made a publication about ciou and the upcoming show for their 100th issue.

Het Parool, National Newspaper from Netherland,  little text on the exhibition part

Ciou upcoming Sunday  9 dec, at 18.50 on VPRO Netherlands 2

From Sunday 11 November, journalist Sarah Meuleman presents a second season of the series VPRO Sarah’s Barbarians. In this six-part series Sarah visits six international ‘barbarian’ artists whose work provoke, challenge and stimulate the definition of art dare to stretch. Sarah is a guest in their studios and at home, where they not only acquainted with the work of art, but also and especially how it comes about.
The reason for the series is the book The Barbarians by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco, in which he describes how our perception of culture changes. According to the ‘barbarians’ of our time, culture is no longer deep and complex, but accessible and widely as possible. Spectacular and noisy, not quiet and sterile. But is this really change?

VPRO, December 9 – Ciou (Toulouse)- documentary 35 min – Vpro, NL, national TV
The French Ciou makes using an ultra fine pen and lots of small dashes beautiful, manga-style graphics. She combines old-fashioned and very time consuming technique forms from our fast popular visual culture.

here is the link to see the documentary :  http://programma.vpro.nl/sarahsbarbaren/afleveringen/ciou.html

First Ciou’s  Catalogue, « Necro Kawaï »,  edited by Mondo Bizzarro, 50 pages.

The catalogue of the show  is available in two different editions, limited and standard. The limited edition is printed in only 30 copies, signed and numbered by the artist and with a small original drawing inside.

Text by the art critic Valeria Arnaldi :   »The global underworld of Ciou : Duality and ecstasy of heaven and hell »

more info : http://www.mondobizzarrogallery.com/shop/details.asp?id=276