Anne Pantillon
Hailing from a musical background, through her family and her training as a violinist, Anne Pantillon came into the fine arts with a sense that a new area of freedom was opening up for her. That being said, neither music nor dance have disappeared. Indeed, they infuse her painting to such an extent that her work is built by listening to sandbanks and painting on the floor using her whole body – arms, elbows, and hands, whose movements are shaped by the sound vibrations. One such example is the series entitled Oscillography, echoing Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. But it is also the sounds of nature, of the wind and sea, which – like a breath – inform her practice.
In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the artist took up painting again. From the confines of her studio, she observed the landscape through the window. This retreat gave rise to the Intérieur(s) series, a return to figurative painting in very large-scale formats, blending nature and architecture in spaces reconstituted by thought and the imagination.
A graduate of the ECAL, Anne Pantillon lives and works in Lausanne. She has exhibited widely in Switzerland and abroad. A major monograph published in November 2022 by 5 Continents Editions retraces her twenty years of work, with essays by Nathalie Chaix, Director of the Musée Jenisch in Vevey; Corinne Currat, Assistant Curator at the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne; writer and translator, Pierre Fankhauser, as well as David Lemaire, Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
