Francoise Schein, MIxed Media Conceptual Art Sculpture Drawing Human Rights Welded Iron, c.1990's

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This is a large sculpture and also includes an artist custom framed silkscreen with extensive handwork titled Line of Time, … Read more This is a large sculpture and also includes an artist custom framed silkscreen with extensive handwork titled Line of Time, pencil signed and inscribed, presented in heavy metal and wooden frame (framed piece 24.5 x 30 in., sculpture piece is about 94 X 11 inches) Francoise Schein is a visual artist, trained as an architect - urban planner; She also teaches art at the ESAM Higher School of Arts and Media in Caen in Normandy . She is the founder of the INSCRIRE Association. In 2016, she was elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Fine Arts of Belgium. Group Exhibitions Spain: 2016, The "5Contemporary" Paris gallery presented a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Genalguacil, Spain. The show included important artists such as Françoise Schein, Mimouni and Pedro Castrortega. Born in Brussels , Françoise Schein left Belgium after studying architecture at the higher institute of architecture of the French community - La Cambre where she wrote her thesis on fundamental rights, then studied urban design at the Columbia University in the City of New York . She lived 11 years in New York where she begins a work on cartography territories. Subway map Floating on NY Sidewalk is his first monumental urban sculpture located at 110 Greene Street in SoHo (1985). At that time her works are abstract landscapes of cities, made up of networks, lines, trajectories, territories, founding texts and stories. They are constructed of very diverse materials and light. Returning back to Europe in 1989, she continues to work on what she calls her drawings-laboratories while beginning to integrate works in cities on civic themes, the main ones: at the Concorde metro station in Paris in 1991 and then in Brussels, Saint-Gilles , in 1992, these two projects took her to Lisbon in 1993 where she lived for five years and produced two monumental works (in azulejos) for the city of Lisbon at Parque metro station ( 1994) and another for the city of Stockholm at the Universitetet station (1998). She continues to travel to cities where she builds successively projects in Haifa , on the facade of the Beth Hagefen Jewish-Arab Cultural Center with Michel Butor (1994). Then she lives in Berlin where she builds the Westhafen station (2000) which takes her to Bremen to make her first human rights park, Rhododendronpark (2002). In 2005, she made the monumental Time Zone Clock in Coventry in 2005. Since 1999, she has also settled in Rio de Janeiro and initiated participatory artistic projects with the underprivileged population of the favelas . Since then, with the help of a locally trained team, many projects have been carried out, including one in Copacabana and more than 20 in different favelas (from 1999 to 2016). These works transformed the Rio workshop into sustainable development for the people who invested it. In Sao Paulo, since 2009, Françoise Schein has produced a monumental work with the participation of 1000 young people from the favela schools at Luz subway station. Her work is monumental recalling the works of Christo, Maria Dompe, Christian Boltanski, Anish Kapoor, Ai Wei Wei and others in her use of size and landscape incorporating them into her work. In Europe, Françoise Schein works with the Association Inscrire and with the Centro de Informação Europeia Jacques Delors (CIEJD) in Lisbon , to distribute an educational kit of reflections and artistic creation on the notion of citizenship, addressed to secondary schools . Since 2003, this educational project has already been carried out in many cities and schools in France, Belgium, England, Portugal and Spain. Ramallah is, of course, on the path of the artist ... In Port-au-Prince in Haiti, she works on her projects with the NGO Fokal. In 2014, the CIVA Museum of Brussels - International Center for the City and Architecture - dedicates a retrospective which was then presented to the MAB-FAAP Museum of Sao Paulo in 2015, Museum of Brazilian Art - Armando Foundation Alvares Penteado. This exhibition will be presented at the National Historical Museum of Rio de Janeiro in 2017. Françoise Schein is fluent in English and Portuguese , in addition to French . It is these 20 years of artistic work and public works that have given her the desire to share her knowledge of an urban team work experience. In 1997 , she founded the Association Register to produce citizen projects in disadvantaged areas, such as favelas in Brazil or the European suburbs. In parallel with her participatory and social artistic works with the Association Inscription, Françoise Schein develops her own works, sculptures, cartographic photos-drawings and videos to express the encounters of a world no longer composed only of territories and abstract networks, but of complex knowledge and very powerful human links. See less