The painter, sculptor and lithographer Manuela Ferré was born in 1978. She is the daughter of Léo Ferré, an iconic French singer. At the age of fourteen, she began studying at the Duccio de Boninsegna Art Institute in Siena, Italy. She then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, , city famous for its marble quarries. In 2001, she studied engraving at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
In 2005, Manuela Ferré received the Georges Coulon prize awarded by the...

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  Biography of Manuela Ferré

  The painter, sculptor and lithographer Manuela Ferré was born in 1978. She is the daughter of Léo Ferré, an iconic French singer. At the age of fourteen, she began studying at the Duccio de Boninsegna Art Institute in Siena, Italy. She then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, , city famous for its marble quarries. In 2001, she studied engraving at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
  In 2005, Manuela Ferré received the Georges Coulon prize awarded by the Institut des Beaux-Arts de France in Paris.
  Her creation is already done in a very social perspective.
  Since 2006, the artist has been working on the « Holders » series, self-portrait masks, inlaid inside the resin, memories of her childhood. Like fossils, these images - photos, flowers, drawings, letters - are based in this field with a project: « Mnemonic ».
  In parallel, the artist produces an introspective work, an intimate show, where sculptures, engravings and lithographs are mixed. Lithography, in particular, has been chosen to produce a series of drawings that complement the sculptures devoted to the ritual of stoning. In 2012, she will produce nearly forty lithographs and an artist's book (« De Précipices en Belvédères », Marcel Moreau) in the famous Parisian Atelier Clot-Bramsen. An exhibition of her lithographed work is organized within the Atelier itself.
  Very sensitive to this theme, she began to tackle it in 2001 with her sculpture Saphya, the name of a young Nigerian woman condemned to be stoned and finally pardoned from her criminal conviction following protests and international condemnation.
  Always looking for a link between the subjects and the media used, she chose to approach lithography by stoning in order to confer a ritual dimension to the creation in this case, using the stone as a means to divulge the voices of the victims, while it is used as a weapon to torture and kill.
  Manuela Ferré has participated in numerous exhibitions since 1996, both solo and collective, in Italy, France, Belgium, Mexico and Japan.
  

  

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