Anne-Lise Coste
Born in Marignane (France) in 1973, Anne-Lise Coste is known for her radical approach, in which the creative potential of her art is articulated in the spontaneous gesture and what is directly said, written and painted. In her works, Coste opposes the standardization of art and uncompromisingly points out the fleeting nature of the moment. Drawing plays a main role in portraying a universe based on her idiosyncratic codes: her imagination and daily life being the raw material that inspires her works.
Coste employs in her work –whether airbrush, spray paint, lacquer, acrylic or oil– her drawings and texts, brimming with immediate and spontaneous gestures, are often reminiscent of graffiti and urban space. These compositions of simple schematic shapes and words refer, among other things, to the long history of Art Brut. Considered by the artist to represent the freedom of childhood –but also resistance– this combination of “naïve” lines and specifically referential words or symbols casts a view onto both the violence of our society and the beauty of the world.
Selected works
Blue Nude Women (ass touching)
2017
Oil stick on wood panel
45 × 30 cm (17 23⁄32 × 11 13⁄16 inches)
Blue Poem
2014
Airbrush on canvas
155 × 144 × 2 cm (61 1⁄32 × 56 11⁄16 × 25⁄32 inches)
FREDERICHOPIN
2014
Airbrush on canvas
155 × 166 × 2 cm (61 1⁄32 × 65 11⁄32 × 25⁄32 inches)
FUCK la mort (peeing on a skull)
2018
Oil and pastel on canvas
180 × 159 cm (70 7⁄8 × 62 19⁄32 inches)
La lumière
2012
Airbrush and gesso on canvas
152.4 × 121.9 cm (60 × 48 inches)
La mort en rose
2018
Airbrush, oil and pastel on canvas
158.5 × 111.5 cm (62 13⁄32 × 43 29⁄32 inches)
La rêveuse
2012
Airbrush and gesso on canvas
152.4 × 121.9 cm (60 × 48 inches)
Planet Yours
2009
Acrylic on canvas
211 × 160 cm (83 1⁄16 × 63 inches)
Self portrait, changing the theory of sex
2015
Airbrush on canvas
221 × 157 × 3 cm (87 × 61 13⁄16 × 1 3⁄16 inches)
Telephone
2015
Airbrush on canvas, glass jars, water, pigment
281 × 156 × 2 cm (110 5⁄8 × 61 13⁄32 × 25⁄32 inches)
Traverser les montagnes
n.d.
Pastel, watercolor, collage on paper
44.5 × 31.5 × 3 cm (17 17⁄32 × 12 13⁄32 × 1 3⁄16 inches)
Untitled
2015
Airbrush on paper
56.5 × 75.5 cm (22 1⁄4 × 29 23⁄32 inches)
Vessels
2019
Oil and spray paint on canvas
344 × 480 cm (135 7⁄16 × 188 31⁄32 inches)
whe whe whe (hand)
2012
Airbrush on canvas
120 × 150 cm (47 1⁄4 × 59 1⁄16 inches)
Installation
LA LA CUNT
2020
Dortmunder Kunstverein
Dortmund
Sors le monde
2019
La FabriC
Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain
Annecy
La vie en rose
2019
Centre Régional D'art Contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée
Sète
BAZOOKA
2019
Chateau d’Assas du Vigan
Montpellier
Things are Getting Better All the Time
2017
Helmhaus
Zurich
Guernica
2013
Eleven Rivington
New York
Critical Episodes (1957-2011)
2012
MACBA
Barcelona
noir noir noir
2011
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander
Santander
Parmi les singes et les signes
2006
Kunstverein Lingen
Lingen
Anne-Lise Coste
2006
CAN
Centre d'Árt Neuchâtel
Exhibitions
Thinking of you (body and soul)
MadridMar 30 - May 25, 2019
Coste uses her own body to describe the forms of other bodies (perhaps her own), combining a concern with primal rituals and a modern, feminist sensibility.
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WATCHDOG-LAPDOG-PLAYDOG
BarcelonaApr 02 - May 07, 2016
“The press is a watchdog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can’t be right all the time. He doesn’t bark only when he sees or smells something that’s dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.” -Dan Rather (American journalist and a former anchor for CBS Evening News)
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Blue Water
MadridApr 21 - May 16, 2015
In this selection of recent works articulated around the colour blue, the interplay of objects, words and images reflects her unique visual language.
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5 days 5 years
BarcelonaApr 15 - May 22, 2010
5 days 5 years intimately reveals for the first time a specific period from the artist’s past, the poignant memory of a traumatic personal experience.
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Shining by Absence
BarcelonaMay 28 - Jul 25, 2009
Shining by Absence means as much as ‘present absentness’ – something had previously existed, but is now no longer there. This involves a precise moment that is ultimately hardly perceptible and thoughts that flash through the mind, that come and go.
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Save Picasso
BarcelonaJan 31 - Mar 29, 2008
NoguerasBlanchard is proud to present the second exhibition in the gallery of Anne-Lise Coste (Marseille, 1973).
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F R A N C E
BarcelonaApr 07 - May 27, 2006
Nogueras Blanchard presents F R A N C E, an exhibition of drawings by Annelise Coste (Marseille, 1973). The exhibition focuses on a large drawing wall painted on the walls of the gallery and a series of drawings of various formats on paper.
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