BIOGRAPhy.
Pascale Stalder was born in 1960 in Geneva, Switzerland. Her father was a painter and professor of Fine Arts, her mother became an eminent Swiss Ikebana artist. She had a constant interest in drawing and writing from an early age.
Attracted by her father’s model, she studied at the artistic section of the Voltaire school to obtain her baccalaureate and then at the Esav, (Geneva Fine Arts), with the idea of becoming a teacher of Fine Arts.
In 1981, she married a Spanish citizen named Perez with whom she made her first big trip to Asia, during a semester. This experience was very important for her vital and artistic concept, with the discovery of poverty on the one hand and colour on the other.
In 1984, with a visa in her pocket but no husband, she left Switzerland with the intention of settling in Spain. After a few years of nomadism and another semester in Asia, she settled in a small village in the province of Cádiz, Arcos de la Frontera, to start what would become her trade and her livelihood until 2014, painting on ceramics. The famous tiles from the south of the Iberian peninsula, popularly used for decorating homes, shops and restaurants, allowed her to practice drawing and painting on a daily basis, to learn little by little the thousand techniques of ceramics, to exhibit regularly, to export works and to be mentioned in numerous Spanish decoration magazines.
In 1999, after his move in 1995, he inaugurated the «Taller de Cerámica Pascale» in the city of Cadiz which would become, during its fifteen years of existence, a place known throughout Spain for its permanent exhibition and its excellence in ceramic production in the execution of tile commissions and other creations. It was also a place of teaching and artistic exchanges. During this period, it was able to maintain its course without marketing its products elsewhere or generalising its ceramics classes, but the 2008 crisis made this unfeasible.
So in 2010, she began to return regularly to Geneva to work as a substitute teacher at the public school, which welcomed her warmly. Today she continues this activity, giving private drawing lessons and ceramics courses. Her experience with tiles enabled her to create in Geneva, thanks to Philippe Homère, a ceramist, who took her into his workshop. She was selected for the Carouge international competition in 2013.
At the end of 2016, his main activity shifted from ceramics to watercolour, especially during his long summer stays in Cadiz. The regular and intensive production of drawings and paintings, as well as exchanges with Cadiz-based artists and painting, allowed him to quickly develop his style – a style that had been present in his creative work since his youth – and to enter other creative dimensions. His first exhibition of watercolours in Geneva took place in June 2021 with great success.
STATEMent.
«My way of seeing the world always tends to two points: the first is to find the beauty in it and to represent it as it is when I draw it; the second is to reinvent that world and make it my own».
Finding beauty and putting it on paper has allowed me to make a living, but reinterpreting reality in an artistic way has been present in my life since its inception in 1986.
But a few years ago I found its maximum expression thanks to watercolours, Chinese ink and a mental freedom finally found.
I paint landscapes.
They are landscapes observed with innocent eyes and transformed, recreated.
They are playful, amusing, tender, luminous, rarely threatening.
In these landscapes, objects – houses, trees, animals, human beings, lampposts, bridges – undergo a process of purification, they are distilled until a few quick strokes are enough to reveal their essence, their symbolic presence.
Each graphic element is for me like a child, and I want to make the world full of those children, that those children, side by side, write the history of that world, contained on a sheet of paper of a few square centimetres.
And as this sheet of paper is only two-dimensional, so are my landscapes.
Its colours, arranged with very little reference to the real, form another symbolic ballet, another story that comes to interact with the first, to reveal and sublimate it.
This way of doing was not born by chance; during my Art studies in the 1980s, questions of wise art were raised as opposed to the art that was still called «primitive» at the time, in an effort to define what art is.
In contrast to the very sectarian and sexist art of wisdom, to which I was a natural heir without being sure I could aspire to it, I turned my gaze to the folk arts for which I felt great admiration and curiosity:
How did those Indian women manage to combine an apple green with a bright pink?
My Swiss gaze, born in the grey uniformity of the 1960s, was surprised and seduced by this freedom.
These observations, combined with the work of Paul Klee or Kandinsky, allowed me to enter little by little into the vertigo of colours without limits.
And if the ability to draw the world is part of my genetic background, the ability to master colours and to recreate the world according to my own codes is the result of a lifetime of work…
After the complexity and heaviness of ceramic techniques, the modesty of media such as watercolour, ink and pencil, the simplicity of the paper support, its liveliness and warmth, gave the optimum response to my concept.
Using them is almost as easy as painting with pigments on a cave wall or drawing on sand with ease.
Without the pressure of a supra-developed society and art, without commercial issues, without prejudice, I can finally let my gaze evolve freely between me and the world, as humans have done throughout the ages.
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Pascale Pérez Stalder
phone: 078 729 55 65
email: [email protected]
address: 1 rue des Grand’Portes 1213 Onex
birth: 10 April 1960, Geneva.
academic education:
1979: Graduated with honours from the Collège Voltaire.
1984: ESAV B Diploma (HEAD) in painting and art history.
languages:
French; mother tongue.
Spanish; fluent.
English; fluent.
IT:
Photoshop, Procreate.
professional activity:
1988 – 1995: collaboration with «Galeria», Arcos de la Frontera.
1992–1996: permanent exhibition «Parador de Arcos de la Frontera».
1993–1996: permanent exhibition «Parador de Cádiz», Cádiz.
1995–1998: permanent exhibition «O sole mio» Gallery, Madrid.
1999–2014: permanent exhibition «Taller de ceramica Pascale», Cadiz. Creation, orders, training, continuing education, sales.
2010–currently: teaching in the substitute teacher of visual arts at the DIP.
2012–currently: ceramics courses «Les Créateliers» and Philippe Homère Workshop, Geneva.
2017–currently: private drawing lessons, Geneva.
2010–currently: permanent exhibition «Tienda-Museo Cadi-Cadi», Cádiz.
continuing education:
– Art course taught by Alba Soto University of Cadiz 1-6 July 2019.
– Collaboration «Tharsis Collection» with Manuel Montalvo, United Nations High Commissioner for Crafts, Madrid.
Painter,
ceramist,
teacher.
solo exhibitions:
Ferme Rosset Troinex,
4 to 20 June 2021
El Palillero» Cultural Centre,
Cádiz City Council.
12 to 28 March 2006
Cabaret-theatre «le Pay-Pay»,
Cádiz.
5 November – 6 January 2005
«La Canela» Cultural Centre,
Cádiz.
6 November – 4 December 2003
Gallery «O sole mio»,
Madrid,
27 September 1997 – 6 December 1998
Municipal centre «El Castillo»,
Arcos de la Frontera,
24 May – 20 June 1992
collective exhibitions:
«Trazos y movimientos»,
Contemporary Culture Space ECCO.
6 July – 5 August 2019
Workshop «La Plaza»,
Geneva.
17 February 2017 – June 2018.
Gallery «Rare series»,
Carouge. «Various»,
24 December 2016
«Unexpected clay»,
Ferme Sarrasin, Meyrin,
16-18 May 2014
«Del Natural»,
Group exhibition
Restaurant «El Faro»,
Cádiz.
August 2009
Inaugural exhibition
of the cultural centre «La Canela»,
Cádiz.
May 2002
ESAV Exhibition,
Rath Museum.
June 1983
competitions:
Carouge International Ceramics Competition,
2013.
Selection.
«Derib and Job» comic strip competition,
1974.
2nd prize (category 13-17 years).
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