Véronique Ellena - Retrospective

30th June- 30th December 2018

A passionate witness to daily life, of which she reveals the spirituality and magnifies the ritual dimension through her series; a photographer of simple things, on which she confers beauty and nobility in her delicately staged portraits, landscapes, and still lifes; Véronique Ellena is a singular artist, whose oeuvre the Musée Réattu is offering to the public in all its richness. This first institutional retrospective invites us to plunge deep into thirty years of creation, punctuated with emblematic series developed through public commissions (Les Grands Moments de la vie, Le Plus Bel Âge, Le Havre) and studded with artist residencies that produced major groups like Les Classiques Cyclistes and Les Natures mortes at the Villa Médicis.

Born 1966 in Bourg-en-Bresse, trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels, photographer and visual artist Véronique Ellena has received several public commissions (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Musée André Malraux au Havre) and her images have entered many public (Centre Georges Pompidou, Fonds national d’Art contemporain, Frac Île-de-France) and private collections (including the Florence & Damien Bachelot collection). She has obtained prestigious residencies—Villa Médicis, Fondation des Treilles—and the “prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'intelligence de la main” for Vitrail du Millénaire at the cathedral of Strasbourg.

Catalog in co-edition with Silvana Editoriale
21.9 x 27.9 cm 200 color pages 150 illustrations, hardcover , French edition
€ 30,00

The exhibition Véronique Ellena -Retrospective is part of the associated program of the Rencontres d'Arles