Françoise Pétrovitch
Born in 1964 in Chambéry
Lives and works in Arcueil
Françoise Petrovitch studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Cachan and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She teaches engraving at the École Estienne
In the 1990s, Françoise Petrovitch created wash drawings, ink drawings, and pencil drawings on sheets of old school paper, paper, and books. Although over time she has branched out into other practices and large formats (wall drawings, prints, paintings, wash drawings, sculptures, video, artist's books, scenography and sets for live performances, etc.), drawing remains her primary medium, allowing her to create, series after series, a portrait of the human condition. Her works, in which color plays an important role, are characterized by an exploration of the boundaries between the worlds of childhood and adulthood, humans and animals, presence and absence. She creates a very personal, strange, and poetic world, a world of anxiety, solitude, and concentration, and engages in a dialogue with art history. Her work is recognized in France and internationally. Her large bronze sculpture, Tenir, was installed in the park of the Louvre Lens Museum in 2018. She is the winner of the 2021 Guerlain Prize for Contemporary Drawing. In 2021-2022, the FHEL is dedicating a retrospective to her, as is the MO.CO in Montpellier in 2025. She was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2025.
Françoise Petrovitch said: “Things are reversed, multiplied, multiplied in a technique, reappearing five minutes later elsewhere, differently, larger, smaller, more precise, less precise. Ultimately, the subject matter is unimportant; what matters is being present in the moment and the relationship with art.”
making of Fumeuse, 2021 - Françoise PETROVITCH
Sérigraphie originale en 7 couleurs sur papier Arches 88. Réalisée par Tristan Pernet sur les presses de l'atelier ParisPrintClub
Edition à 100 exemplaires
14.96 x 19.69 in (38 x 50,8 cm)
Sérigraphie épuisée.
Aquatinte en 2 couleurs sur papier Hahnemühle, collage de papier japon teint en rouge. Imprimée par Bérengère Lipreau et Domitille Arai sur les presses de l'atelier René Tazé
Edition numérotée à 35 exemplaires
25.59 x 19.69 in (65,5 x 50,3 cm)
Gravure épuisée
Lithographie originale en 7 couleurs sur papier Arches 400gr
Edition numérotée à 35 exemplaires
35.43 x 24.41 in (90,4 x 62,7 cm)
Imprimée sur les presses de l'atelier A Fleur de Pierre, Paris
Françoise PETROVITCH Fumeuse, 2021
Aquatinte en 3 couleurs sur papier hahnemühle 270gEdition à 30 exemplaires
25.98 x 21.65 in (66 x 55 cm)
Gravure épuisée