Vue d’exposition / Installation view Olio e pepe, 2024, Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artists and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Vidya Gastaldon, Healing Painting (Flower Poltergeist), 2014. Huile sur tableau trouvé / Oil on vintage framed painting, 24 × 19 cm (9 ½ × 7 ½ inches)Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset
Vidya Gastaldon, Moomin Landscape, 2023. Acrylique et crayon sur toile et cadre peint / Acrylic and pencil on canvas and painted frame. 36,7 × 47 cm (14 ½ × 18 ½ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.
Vues d’exposition / Installation view Houses of Tove Jansson, Espace Mont-Louis, Paris, 2023. Curated by The Community.
Vues d’exposition / Installation view Houses of Tove Jansson, Espace Mont-Louis, Paris, 2023. Curated by The Community.
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Du Nil au Léman. Regards contemporains © Musée d’art de Pully, 2023. Photographe : Olga Cafiero.
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Du Nil au Léman. Regards contemporains © Musée d’art de Pully, 2023. Photographe : Olga Cafiero.
Vidya Gastaldon, Healing Painting (Marine monster), 2016. Huile sur tableau trouvé / Oil on canvas on found painting, 55 × 47 cm (21 ⅝ × 18 ½ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Claire Dorn. Collection privée / Private collection
Vue d’exposition / Installation views The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London/UK, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by Michael Brzezinski.
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Expérience #16 Rêveries, 2022. Curator Judicaël Lavrador Domaine Pommery, Reims/FR
Vue d’exposition | Installation view Océan Sentimental, Vidya Gastaldon, 16.09.2022 – 05.11.2022. Production Les Capucins, Embrun. Courtesy the Artist; Wilde, Genève; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo © F. Deladerriere
Vue d’exposition / Installation views, Hippydrome, 2022, Frac Normandie Caen/FR
Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Jusque-là, Le Fresnoy – Studio national, Tourcoing, 2022. Vidya Gastaldon, Escalator (Rainbow Rain), 2007, laine, fils, baguettes de tilleul / wool, threads, lime tree sticks, 700 × 100 cm, Pinault Collection. Courtesy the Artist; Wilde, Genève; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo: Théo Coeugniet
Vue d’exposition / Exhibition view Histoires d’abstractions. Le cauchemar de Greenberg, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, 2021-2022. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Thomas Lannes
Installation view Paysages du temps zéro, 2021. Photo Nicolas Brasseur. courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris
Vidya Gastaldon, Les yeux libres 54, 2021, Acrylic paint and varnish on plate ø 12,7 cm (ø 5 inches). Photo Nicolas Brasseur. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris
Vidya Gastaldon, Sentiment océanique (Marquis-e), 2021, Watercolour, gouache paint, acrylic paint, pencil and coloured pencils on paper, 20,8 × 29,4 cm (8 ¼ × 11 ⅝ inches). Photo Nicolas Brasseur. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris
Vidya Gastaldon, Sentiment océanique (pommettes chaudes), 2021, Watercolour, gouache paint, acrylic paint, pencil and coloured pencils on paper, 29,4 × 41,6 cm (11 ⅝ × 16 ⅜ inches). Photo Nicolas Brasseur. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris
Santa Saturnia, 2019, acrylic on clock and painted objects, 261 x 41 x 27,7 cm.
Healing object (chakra echelle), 2019. Acrylic paint and varnish on found ladder, 87 x 26 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. Private collection FR
Healing object (cubistery n°1), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found object, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.
Installation view, Géométries de l’Invisible – EAC (Espace de l’Art Concret Centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national), 2020. Healing Object (cubistery n°1 et n°2), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found object, 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. each. © photo eac.
Installation view, Géométries de l’Invisible – EAC (Espace de l’Art Concret Centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national), 2020. Healing Object (cubistery n°1 et n°2), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found object, 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. each. © photo eac.
Healing object (tabouret couché de soleil), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found stall, 18 7/8 x 13 x 13 in.
Healing objet (tabouret double face tigre), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found stool, 17 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.
Atlantide, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 70 7/8 x 98 3/8 in.
Les rescapés, Installation view, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2016
Les rescapés, Installation view, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2016
Les rescapés, Installation view, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2016
Healing Painting (A huge ever growing…), 2016, oil on vintage paint, 18 1/8 x 15 in.
Healing Painting (Désastre mauve), 2016, oil on vintage framed paint, 19 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.
Healing Painting (Vers le Ciel), 2016, oil on vintage framed paint, 15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.
Healing Painting (First Human), 2015, oil on vintage paint, 15 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. Private collection FR
Le long chariot Mixcoatl, 2014, beechwood, wool, silk, Variable dimensions
Le long chariot Mixcoatl (detail), 2014, beechwood, wool, silk, Variable dimensions
Installation view, L’Illusion des Lumières, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, curator: Caroline Bourgeois, 2014
Let it god (Santa Table), 2013, Variable dimensions
Installation view, I’m in Love with the New World, Art : Concept, Paris, 2013
Teapot, salad, poltergeist, 2012, oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 27 1/2 in.
De l’amour avec du poil autour, 2012. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 47 1/4 in.
Playful Flame, 2011, acrylic and oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 70 7/8 in.
Try looking into that place…, 2009. Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, colored pencil on paper, 12 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.
Installation view Vidya Gastaldon, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France, 2009
Installation view, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea, 2007
Installation view, Vidya Gastaldon, Kunstmuseum, Thun, 2006
Biography
Vidya Gastaldon was born in 1974 in Besançon. She lives and works in Grange Neuve (Ain), France.
With her mystical, fantastical and extremely vivid approach to art, Vidya Gastaldon develops a sort of harmonisation of qualities both spiritual and physical. Allergic to any attempt to control and restrain her universe, she delivers a cosmic overview combining Hindi divinities, Muppet-Show characters and Christian references. Her work, reminiscent of artists such as Turner, Burchfield, Blake or Bunuel, is extremely multi faced and deals with the divine, the hallucinatory but also with everyday life. In a mixture of sacred, sensual, tongue-in-cheek and sometimes provocative creations, she manages to establish a connection between “being” and “meant to be”. She engenders new beliefs, and by means of negative and positive impulses she pushes social unconsciousness out of the way, liberating our collective thought of the predefined egregores that oblige us to keep reproducing spiritual and social patterns.
Her work is part of the following collections: Frac Normandie, Rouen; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest; Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Jenisch Museum, Vevey; Kunst Museum Bern; CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; Collection Région Piémont, Turin; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Selected solo exhibitions: Océan sentimental, Centre d’Art Contemporain Les Capucins, Embrun (2022); J’aurais voulu qu’on s’aime tous, Wilde, Genève (2020), Objets peints au feu de bois, Art : Concept, Paris (2019); Push the earth with your knees, the sky with your head, Art Bärtschi & Cie, Geneva (2017); Les Rescapés, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne; Hello From the Other Side, Art : Concept, Paris (2016); Tu es Monstrueux et je t’aime beaucoup, MAMCO, Geneva (2012); Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan (2009), among others. In 2019 her work was part of the group exhibition ‘Futur, ancien, fugitif’ at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
At the gallery
Paysages du temps zéro , 2021
Objets peints au feu de bois, 2019
Hello From the Other Side, 2016
Le cours des choses, 2015
I’m in Love With the New World, 2013
Bagna Cauda, 2010
Cinématique, Esthétique, Politique, Hermétique, 2010
Necology, 2009
Vidya Gastaldon, 2006
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Vidya Gastaldon, Les Rescapés, 2016 [Exposition Vidya Gastaldon. Les Rescapés, musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix – MASC, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2016] Cahiers de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix n°131, les Sables d’Olonne Edition bilingue (français / anglais) 21 x 23 cm (broché) 104 pages (ill. coul.) ISBN : 978-2-913981-59-1
Vidya Gastaldon, Call it what you like…, 2008 [Exposition, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2008] JRP Ringier éditions, Zürich Edition anglaise 26 cm, 159 pages ISBN : 978-3-905829-84-
Vidya Gastaldon, 2006 [Exposition Vidya Gastaldon, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Thun; Swiss Institute; New York; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Genève, 2006] Auteurs : Karl Holmqvist, Madeleine Schuppli & Fabrice Stroun JRP Ringier éditions, Zürich, 2006 Edition bilingue (français / anglais) 29 x 21 cm, 63 pages ISBN : 2-940271-74-7
Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker; collaborations, 1994 – 2001, 2003 kunsthaus, Giarus, JRP Editions, Genève 16 x 20,4 cm. 72 pages ISBN : 978-2-940271-11-7
Vidya Gastaldon/Healing Boom, 2007 Hiromi Yoshii Edition, Tokyo