User:Noradesaintpicman

Nora de Saint Picman

1983 had taken a diploma degree at Secondary school of music and ballet in              Ljubljana, piano with professor Darinka Bernetic 1986 had taken a diploma degree at Fine Art School, University of Ljubljana, painting with professor Janez Bernik, became a member of Association of Slovenian visual artists and pursued an independant career; workshop for video, ( Joco Jovanovic), ZKOS Ljubljana 1988-90 scholarship of a french government, working at the École nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, in the studios of professors: V.         Velickovic – drawing, A.Hadad – lithography, C.Fossier – etching, G.Jeanclos – ceramics 1991 continue with lithography in A.Hadad's studio, became a member of         association Maison des Artistes 1993 received french citizenship 1995 workshops for modern dance, ZKOS Ljubljana 1997 birth of a son Adrian Samuel, Institut Mutualiste Muntsouris, Paris 2000 birth of a daughter Marguerite Voulissa, Pitié de la Salpetrière, Paris 2003 diploma degree by Fédération Nationale de la culture française, European art group started with pedagogic work ( Ecole française de Ljubljana) 2004 became more oriented in video works, performances and installations 2008 birth of a son Aron Raphaël, Ljubljana 2010 continue being involved in video projects, creative design

Nora de Saint Picman – visual artist, works as a painter, graphic designer, sculptor and video artist. With specific accentuated graphic line of figurative and decorative compositions she started from german expressionism, simbolism as well as surrealism, in the postmodern mixture of different technical approaches and materials..( photography, collage, glass, ceramics, polyester...). The main content of her work are people and their intimate relationships, man-woman, mother-child, etc...In the early works, the relations are more erotic, painfull, destructive ( Saloma; a group of ten a human size black polyester sculptures, realized for a theatre play Explosion of memory by Eduard Mueller). In the serie of urban interventions, the polyester sculpture The sarcophage for immortal love has been, during one action in 1990, put in front of FIAC entry in Paris. But gradually those researches of somehow basical human questions, seen through a perspective of byblical themes became softened and acquainted with meditative poetical approach and eastrern ritual and the serie of fifteen polyester Pretressess ( human size woman Bouddhas...) was installed in Kongresni trg in Ljubljana, in 1997. After 1997, there is also some return towards classical oil big size paintings, with thick expressive impresionistic matter, of flowers or a paysage motifs in the pleinairistic manner, and after 2000, to collage, photography and again figurative, more graphical work, but there is also some omnipresent poetic lettristic element. Photography and collage became more important, as well as purely compositional approach and more urban influenced work (Quelques regards sur Paris, 2003, china ink drawings, Collages Impressions de Bruxelles, from 2007). Last plastic visual works are mainly photography-based collages, of her own or her familly, worked and after designed on the computer, finnaly printed on a mirror or metal surface. ( a serie of sleeping children, autoportraits, mixture of urban exteriors or café's interior..., a textes wroten onto...The fountain of vow, Les lustres...)

Director’s Biography/Filmography

making videos, mixed documentary and imaginary; including paintings, historical content, music, musical improvisation, dance, museums, architecture, poetry...

Video works:

Saloma, 1987, 30 min; combine dance, theatre, graphic works Orpheus 1997, 15 min.( with Brina Jež Brezavšček, composer, original work for alt saxophone and electronics…) dance, paintings

Musée Guimet, 2004, 13 min; ( documentary; museum Guimet before renovation, accompanied with Indian ragas..)

“Saint Denis Basilique”, 2004, 12min / documentary from Saint Denis Basilique, Paris; music-gregorian choral; with Neewa film, editing: Bogdan Škulj);

2004, Installation ”La cantique des cantiques”, 29’ and 29’ twoo parts; The work is based on the text of Song of songs; in one video, the text is read by women, on the other, played simultaneously, by man, in different languages, by different readers ( English, Slovene, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German…) An large plasma screen is placed in each of two rooms, en face. All across the walls, there are photocopies, enlargened, of the texts in different languages. For the opening, an dance performance was held, of a dancer and me, semi-clothed in a white plastic material composed bride costume…

La neige tombe, 2008, 26 min; paysage images, dance, graphics, poetry, piano improvisation; with Slak studio

Printemps, 2008, 26min; ( with Slak studio); paysage, urban images, dance, graphics, paintings, poetry, piano, synthesizer improvisation;

La songe d’une nuit d’été, 2010, 26 min., (Avitel production) paysage, urban images, graphics, paintings, poetry, piano, synthesizer improvisation, violoncello, saxophone;

Aron-les souvenirs d’automne, 2010, 26 min ( Avitel production) paysage, urban images, poetry, piano, saxophone, violoncello…