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Astrid de La Forest
Guest artist
01.02.2021 - 28.02.2021
Visual arts
Biography
Visual artist and printmaker, Astrid de La Forest deals with life and nature. During her three successive residencies at the Villa, she explores the gardens she surveys and draws in large notebooks of her own making. These “book-objects” retrace the changes to the landscape caused by the disappearance and replacement of certain emblematic trees in this place steeped in memory.
By drawing, the artist seeks to establish a typology: form, rhythm and classification. She collects species and builds up a personal archive in which she captures the soul of trees, present and gone. Her exploration feeds her work in the studio, where she creates unique prints halfway between painting and engraving.
His work was exhibited at the Regala gallery in Arles in July 2021.
At Villa Medici
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Medici Residency Occitanie
Application 17.02 - 31.03.2025
Created in 2018 by the Occitanie Region in partnership with the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, the Price Occitanie - Medici dedicated to young contemporary creation aims to develop the international influence of talent from Occitanie by welcoming them to the Villa Medici for a research and creative stay of several months. Each year, the price attracts around a hundred candidates - visual and visual artists - eager to take advantage of the opportunity offered by a residency at one of Europe's most emblematic art centers, in contact with other artists from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Each year, the winner of the Price Occitanie - Medici is selected on the basis of an application and an audition of the shortlisted candidates, each of whom presents his or her project to a jury made up of representatives of the Region, the Director of Villa Medici and associated experts.