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Alison Bignon


Loose Notes of Sorrow 


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Title : 15 
Dry point, rotring, water color 
30 / 40 cm 
2016 

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Title : Ernesto 
Etchings, dry point, rotring, thread
30 / 40 cm 
2015 


Alison Bignon (b.1983, Paris). 

I am a classically-trained actress, theatre director and visual artist known for my
method of making abstract portraits depicting the real-life stories of my sitters. 

Following an initial interview, a dialogue between me and subject that can last several weeks, i will spend days in my studio translating my subject’s emotions into a graphic vocabulary i created, finely-details works on paper.  
A part of these works are rooted in the technical, traditional method of engraving (dry point, burin,etchings, embossing) , then hand - finished with watercolor, pencil and pen-and-ink details (which is making all the pieces unique).

Works on paper are often accompanied by a video piece (or a poetry) in which i take on the persona
of the subject and perform a monologue i wrote, based on their story. 

The aim of this approach is to archive individual stories and to give them an important and "nurturing" place in the great history.
I use all mediums without restrictions (video, engraving, drawing, painting, writing ...) if necessary in the construction of the « loose notes of sorrow » of the subject. 

The material and myself, putting us at the service of the story told, In order to feed an emotional database,
a kind of anthropological work, requiring a mnemonic approach.

For me, all these « loose notes of sorrow » are above all a return to the other, the empathetic art, necessary in a society extinguishing all pure emotion.

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Title : 13 
Etchings, water color, rotring, thread
30 / 40 cm 
2015 


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Title : Carnet de chagrin 
Dry point, burin, ink, rotring, embossing 
40 / 60 cm 
2014 


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Title : Carnet de chagrin (2) 
Dry point, acids, rotring 
30 / 40 cm 
2014 


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Title : Cocon 
Embossing, water color, rotring
45 / 60 cm 
2014 


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Title : Carnet de chagrin (3) 
Dry point, etchings, rotring 
30 / 40 cm 
2015 


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Title : Envie 
dry point, rotring, ink 
30 / 40 cm 
2015 


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Title : Map Tender 
Etchings, burin, dry point, rotring 
20 / 100 cm 
2015 


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Cocoon


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Title : Une balade
Ink, rotring, water color, thread 
17,5 / 19,5 cm 
2017 


Loose Notes of Sorrow 

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Title : Landscapes (1) 
Acrylic, rotring, ink
80 / 120 cm 
2017 


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Title : Joy of nothing (2) 
Acrylic, rotring, ink 
14,5 / 21 cm 
2017 


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​Title : #Live Your Life With Grace (4) 
Ink, thread, rotring 
7,5 / 9,5 cm 
2016 

Stitched Hearts

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Title : #Chicago 
Acrylic, post, thread on canvas 
124 / 150 cm 
2016 


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Title : #WallerCounty 
100 / 160 cm 
Acrylic, thread on canvas 
2016 


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Title : Empire du coquelicot (2) 
Ink, rotring
12 / 16 cm 
2017 


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Title : Empire du coquelicot (3) 
Ink, water color, rotring, thread 
19,5 / 29 cm 
2017 



https://www.alisonbignon.com/

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