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Born in Lyon, France
Graduated from the Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Art has always played a major role in her family. Her father was an excellent violinist, and all of her family, including her mother, native of Armenia, has a passion for art. Martine, first attracted by music and dance, eventually chose painting.
Her meeting in 1983 with Pierre Jacquemon, a French painter who lives in New York as well as Lyon, was very influential. She realized that painting was her vocation.
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"I feel a strong bond with painting. It is a love object, a fervor towards the 'Other.' But this bond is not a fusion. There is a certain distance. Painting channels all my imagination and imagery and integrates them into the social communication routes of art.
I am always apprehensive and satisfied at the same time about the final touch of my painting. I have doubts. Is the painting finished? Have I work until exhaustion? Have I said everything?
I feel bad when I am not painting. Something important and vital is missing.
I am mute on most of my art. Writing on what I paint seems totally vain. The enigmatic feature of creation is missing. Speaking does not reveal the creation enigma. It hides it."
Martine Mikaelian, November 1999
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Solo Exhibitions
2001: Artist Studio, Lyon, France
2000: Private Exhibition hosted by Catherine & Nicolas Pic, Lyon, France
1996: Cupillard Gallery, Grenoble, France
1995: Cupillard Gallery, Grenoble, France
1994:
Mai du Livre d'Art, Lyon, France
Cupillard Gallery , Grenoble, France
1992: Biennale de la Danse, Lyon, France
1991:
Cupillard Gallery , Grenoble, France
Le Centaure Gallery , Marseille, France
1990: Genoveffa Gallery, Cagnes, France
1988: La Traboule Gallery, Lyon, France
1987: Anais Gallery, Munich, Germany
1985:
Arto Gallery , Vienne, France
Cutural Center , Francheville, France
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Group Exhibitions
1999: Funabashi Gallery, French and Japanese exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
1998: Museum of Dolls, Lyon, France
1996: Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
1995: "L'embarcadère", Lyon, France
1994:
Galeria del Sempione, Novara, Italy
Cupillard Gallery, Saint-Tropez, France
1993: Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
1993: Bellecour Gallery, Lyon, France
1993: "Fresh Painting" Gallery, Paris, France
1989:
Actual Art Center "La Cuvée", Lyon, France
Cupillard Gallery, Grenoble, France
Genoveffa , Cagnes sur Mer, France
1988:
Actual Art Center "La Cuvée", Lyon, France
Jean Claude David Gallery, Grenoble, France
In ternational Art Competition , New York, USA
1987: "Point Cadet" Gallery , Grenoble, France
1986: "Europaishe Patemtamt", Munich, Germany
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Selection of paintings from Martine Mikaelian
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the guestbook of Martine Mikaelian
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the guestbook of Martine Mikaelian
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