Mariette Teisserenc (born March 3, 1940) is a French visual artist, painter and engraver. She is also known as "Teisse" or "Teisse-Renc".
She was born in Grand-Couronne, Seine-Maritime. Trained as a Graphic designer at Düsseldorf's School of Decorative Arts (1967–1972), she gave up a career in the advertising industry in 1978 to dedicate herself to her artistic practice.
As an abstract painter and advocate for recognition of women artists in France and abroad, she was the President of the French women artists' group "".
Her work is characterized by clean shapes, strong lines and the invariable use of the colour black. It expresses tensions between forms and the search for equilibrium.
In 1969, Teisserenc was awarded a Second Prize for Graphic-Design from the company Henkel & Cie GmbH (Düsseldorf, West-Germany). In 1971, she received first prize from the Nordwestdeutsche Austellungsgesellschaft mbH (NOWEA, Messe Düsseldorf). In 1983, she received a silver medal from the Bilan de l'Art Contemporain Foundation (Melun-Almont, France).
In 1996, the (part of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry) and the Ministry for Indigenous Affairs of Quebec awarded her a grant to travel to the Nunavik region and study the use of the ulu, a knife specific to Inuit women. She exhibited the results of her work in 1998 at Riverin-Arlogos Gallery, Eastman, Canada.
Teisserenc was president of the French feminist artists collective .
In 2012, Teisserenc designed the stained glass windows of Saint-Peter and Saint-Paul Church in Brûlon-sur-Sarthe, France.
Selected exhibitions
1970: "Rythmen und Kompositionen – Bilder von Mariette Teisserenc und Maïkki Strömberg", General Consulate of France, Düsseldorf, Germany 1972: "Jahresausstellung Fachhochschule Düsseldorf", Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany 1972: "Mòstra Del Larzac" (5th ed.), Les Infruts – La Couvertoirade, France 1976: "Mòstra Del Larzac" (9th ed.: "Le Beaubourg d'Occitanie"), Les Infruts – La Couvertoirade, France 1978: "Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin" (BBK), Villa Engelhardt, Düsseldorf, Germany 1979: " (peintures et sculptures)", Mairie of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France 1979: "Salon de l'" (95th ed.), Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France 1981: "Jahresausstellung Düsseldorfer Künstler-Vereinigung", Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany 1982: "International Festival of Woman Artists", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 1982: "Salon de la Jeune Peinture" (33rd edition), Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France 1983: "Art expo NY" (Fondation Bilan de l’Art contemporain), Coliseum, Columbus Circle, New York City, United States 1985: "Expositie: Mariette Teisserenc, Leny Aardse-Scholten, Sheila Reid", Centraal Beheer Kunstgalerij, Apeldoorn, Netherlands 1985: "Schilderijen en objecten in gemengde techniek", Stichting Kasteel van Rhoon, Albrandswaard, Netherlands 1985: "Paris-couleur-Montréal" (Jeune Peinture), Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, Canada 1986: "Tour of America – An Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Sheila Reid, Leny Aardse, Mariette Teisserenc", The Fine Arts Gallery, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States 1986: "Tour of America", Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States 1986: "Tour of America", Nexus/Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 1990: "Kontraste – Mariette Teisserenc (Malerin) und Peter Rübsam (Bildhauer)", Fenster Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany 1993: "International Women Artists Exhibition" (Alliance of Woman Artists), Grand Palais, Paris, France 1998: "Retour du Grand Nord, a French artists visiting the Inuit", Riverin-Arlogos Gallery, Eastman, Canada 1999: "Ariane-Essor", Petronas Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2003: "Plages: Le numéro 100 de la revue" (art magazine), Weiller Gallery, Paris, France 2004: "Silviane Léger et Mariette Teisserenc", Silviane Léger's art studio Tourcoing, Lille, France 2015: "Les 30 ans de la Galerie Riverin-Arlogos: Mariette Teisse-Renc, Jean-Michel Correa, Daniel Lacomme", Riverin-Arlogos Gallery, Eastman, Canada 2021: "Semaine d’Art Contemporain de Saint-Mandé" (37th ed.), Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Bibliography 2001, Lettres d’Afrique du Sud : un livre sur la Paix [South African's Letters: a Book about Peace], Catherine Samet (text) and Mariette Teisserenc (text), Paris V : L’Harmattan, 250 pp. . 2006, Les Mille et un contes et récits de Tozeur ou L’aventure du Sud Tunisien [The Thousand and One Tales of Tozeur or the South Tunisian Adventure], Catherine Samet (text) and Mariette Teisserenc (text and illustrations), foreword by Moncer Rouissi, Paris V : L’Harmattan, 272 pp. .
External links Artists of the World Online WorldCat RKDartists Le Delarge
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