ABOUT MARIE BORALEVI
Marie Boralevi is a French artist. Born in 1986. She currently lives and works in Paris. In 2009, she graduated from l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Industries Graphiques (School of Graphic & Industrial Arts), Estienne, with a Master Craftsman’s degree for which she received an « excellent » rating. She also graduated with honors from l’Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués Duperré in 2011. Marie Boralevi’s work has always included striking imaginary creatures. Her engravings and drawings bring to life the singular world that has been created by her thriving imagination. In 2013, she won the Pierre Cardin award for her engravings from the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut de France. Since then, her works have been shown in the big international fairs of contemporary art such as DDessin in Paris (2014 – 2016 and 2017); Docks Art Fair in Lyon (2017) ; Lyon Art Paper (2018) ; Art On Paper in Brussels (2014); Art Copenhagen (2014) or ST-ART in Strasbourg(2015).) Her engravings and drawings were shown at the Taylor Foundation in Paris; at the Pierre Boucher Museum in Canada (in 2013); as well as in the Liège’s museum of Fine Arts (for the 10th international biennial event of contemporary prints) and at the Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton (in 2019). Marie Boralevi | Portraits of a generation in flux… by Blandine Boucheix - Projects and exhibitions coordinator Jean Louis Ramand Gallery Marie Boralevi’s works bring to light the questions plaguing a youth in search of meaning. Starting with a catalogue of carefully selected visual references, she uses pieces of images to bring tortured bodies to life, witnesses to the myriad of protests tattooed on their flesh. This referential synthesis is first processed digitally. After laser printing, the new image of the stitched together character is then transferred onto Washi* through a delicate friction process that leaves a diaphanous imprint on the paper. The artist’s hand then intervenes to reveal the essence of these young, socially committed bodies through the skillful use of a graphite pencil and powder. The often frontal poses, the piercing looks capture your attention. Her technique gives an expressive materiality to these fictional beings, summoned into our material reality as if to make viewers question their relationship to their fellow men (and women).
EAST AND WEST; BELGIUM AND TURKEY, NINE ARTISTS, DIFFERENT COUNTRIES-CULTURES-STYLES AND ONLY ON PAPER. "I" IN THEIR OWN WORDS” EXHIBITION STARTS AT G-ART (2014)
Nine successful artists from two countries; Yasemin Senel, Yavuz Tanyeli, Arzu BaIsaran,Rafet Arslan, Ahmet Sarı, Anya-Belyat Giunta, Annabelle Guetatra, Maja Ruznic, Marie Boralevi shall meet with viewers at G-Art, exhibiting their striking designs and paperwork in cooperation with Brussels Galerie d'YS.
Art, from the times of the cave-men to our day, has helped us understand human relations through the interpretations and creativity of mankind manifesting himself over primitive drawings, eventually evolving towards sophisticated art forms, over centuries. Artsy movements, as a bridge between dream and reality are in fact acts of bonding the rational with irrational phenomenon, the real and unreal, the images and the actual entities. Shortly, we can say that art is the adventure of getting to know, transforming and creating oneself. As its consequence we observe that, one, in his struggle to transcend himself, gets to discover and proves his existence through others' medium. Especially, the figures in the art themes form and reveal their understanding and interpretation from the standpoint of their cultural circle and geographical origins and implement their ever-changing essence. From Neolithic times to our day, animal images appear both formally and conceptually as quite diverse manifestations of the artists’ psyche. Regardless of their initial "three dimensional figures over two dimensional surface" methods that are followed by the shattering of the traditional art and their replacement by modernism, they were eventually led to contemporary practices. The notion of death, even if it maintains its validity in conceptual sense, in relation to the understanding and acceptance of the aggression within, man's confrontation with his animalistic instincts is transformed, in a way, towards more realistic formats of contemporary art language compared to the traditional.
These nine artists from different background and cultures aim to present to the spectators their reality and visualizations, using their own plastic language and personal interpretations, the exposure of "human-animal" and "inhuman animal" context using the symbolic motives of the subconscious.