Telluric and colossal, the work of Lydie Arickx is similar to the activity of volcanoes. By drawing her energy from the heart of the vital reflexes, by formulating essential intuitions, this artist embodies with great panache the energy which creates planets, let the trees grow, let the men die.
Françoise Monnin, October 2011
Lydie Arickx, a name registered in the heritage of painting.
Her fame in France and out the hexagon testifies of it. Creative power, emotional drives, peculiarity.
A metaphysical work, feverish, magnificent, installed in the galaxy of bodies to explore depths of the human psyche; an obsessional quest canvasses the human anatomy, pushing the brush-scalpel, in search of the invisible which steals the flesh.
Her magnificent, stormy, exaggerated work, embedded in the genius, leads her to be part of the Greatests.
At first sight, the work can surprise, embarrass, worry, oppress (any approach of the authentic art always raises question), question; but the lucid look allows to penetrate into this saga of bodies, into this luxurious apocalypse diving in the most secret, into this bubbling painting which sculptures some greatness in a carnal orgy.
Stubborn, relentless work where grinds the death, obsession of the alive, where sits the talent master of brushes and who, after all, dedicates the triumph of the flesh which immortal shape can be deciphered in Lascaux
Pierre Osenat
Painter and sculptor, Lydie Arickx was born in 1954 in Villecresnes from Flemish parents.
After studies (1974-1978 ) to the College of graphic arts of Paris ( ESAG), presented by Roland Topor, she obtains her first personal exhibition in 1979 in the gallery Jean Briance (pastels and oil).
From the beginning of the 1980s, she participates in international events as Art Basel, FIAC or Art Paris.
In 1988, she presents her work in Belgium, in Switzerland, in Germany, in the Netherlands then in Spain and in the United States (first exhibition presented by Amaury Taittinger in New York beside Francis Bacon).
In 1991, she settles down in the region of the Landes where she works on large formats and approaches the monumental sculpture.
From 1993, she realizes several frescoes for various sites in France.
In 1998, she creates with Alex Bianchi a festival of contemporary art "the Meetings of the Dial" which will welcome during five consecutive years more than 80 international and emergent artists.
In 1999, for the 800th anniversary of Saint Emilion's Jurade, Lydie Arickx presents a double personal exhibition in the convent and in the Monolithic Church.
The artist organizes regularly cultural events on big national stages (Art Senate 2001) staging the contemporary art and the live performance (training courses of creativity for schools, companies, hospitals, cultural events, exhibitions, etc…).
Works of Lydie Arickx appear in the big international public collections (National Museum of modern Art of Paris, Centre Pompidou, Palace of Tokyo, FNAC) and within the public place (Paul-Brousse hospital to Villejuif, Intermunicipal Hospital center of Créteil, IUFM (FRENCH SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION) of Mont-de-Marsan, PIMPS SAINT-VINCENT-DE-TYROSSE, fresco for the remembrance from the centenary of the arenas of Dax in 2013).
Finally, her studio is considered as a place of full experiment which she likes sharing with every public.
In 2014, will be published by the editions Diabase her first manuscript, “We live”.
Read more2021 Ne Me Consolez Pas !, Abbaye de Flaran, France
Arborescences, Château de Chambord, France
La Vie Nue, Galerie Capazza, France
2020 Parcours d’art contemporain autour d’Auguste Rodin, Galerie Capazza Nançay in partenership with Musée Rodin - 1 exhibition 5 locations 60 artists
2019 Créatrices, l'émancipation par l'art, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, France
Art Paris Art Fair, booth A21 with the Loo & Lou Gallery, Paris, France
2018 Tant qu’il y aura des ogres, Château Biron – from December, 8th 2018 to May 2019
2017 Gravité Exposition performance à la Loo & Lou Gallery, Paris
Art Paris Art Fair, booth A21 with the Loo & Lou Gallery, Paris
2016 Arickx au Carré (performance exhibition), Galerie Airial, Mimizan
En live à l’Atabal, Biarritz
Oublier qu’on peint, performance and installation at the Conciergerie
2015 Galerie Egregore, Marmande, France
Lydie Arickx à Roubaix : La Piscine – La Manufacture – La Condition Publique – Le Non lieu, France
Two monumental steel sculptures, Château de Cadillac, France
Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France
2014 20 ème festival d’art : invitée d’honneur, Carla Bayle, France
Galerie Egregore, Marmande, France
Artothèque, Gondrin, France
Crypte Sainte Eugénie : Corpusculaire, Biarritz, France
2013 Le Clos des Cimaises : Songes drolatiques, Saint-Georges du Bois, France
Chapelle St Anne : Les Apparaîtres, avec Alain Gillis, Tours, France
2012 Réfectoire des Cordeliers / Galerie Saint-Germain et Musée de l’histoire de la médecine de l’Université Paris Descartes : Avant les mots – les langes de la vie, Paris
Galerie Polad-Hardouin : Avant les mots, Paris, France
Chapelle Sainte Anne, Arles, France
Château d’eau-Château d’art : Le mythe de la Caverne, Bourges, France
2011 Espace Van Gogh : Toréer la matière, Arles, France
Le Carmel : L’abandon de la conscience, Tarbes, France
Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Aquitaine : Un petit Chaperon rouge, Bordeaux, France
Toréart and artistic performance in the arenas, Mont-de- Marsan, France
2010 Chemins d’art en Armagnac, Sainte Quitterie, Fourcès, France
La Galerie des arènes, Vic Fezansac, France
Galerie du Saint James, Bouliac, France
Galerie Le Clos des Cimaises, Saint Georges du Bois, France
Prieuré de Vinetz, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
2009 Musée de Guéthary : Quand l’amor monte, Guéthary, France
Galerie Ardital : El Homicidio, Aix-en-Provence, France
Galerie D.X : À corps perdu, Bordeaux, France
Galerie Lillebonne – Centre culturel André Malraux – Espace ICAR, Nancy, France
Villa Béatrix Ènea – Patio, Anglet, France
Galerie d’art du Lycée Duplessis-Mornay, Saumur, France
2008 Galerie Polad-Hardouin : Tellement j’ai faim..., Paris, France
XIIème Journée du patrimoine de la Thibaudière, Tercé, France
Galerie Grand’Rue , Poitiers, France
2007 Centre d’Art Contemporain, Mont de Marsan, France
2006 Musée d’art Contemporain : La Nativité, Chauvigny Les Bains Douches, France
Collégiale Saint Pierre : Paysages et Spiritualité, Chauvigny, France
Double exhibition : Il n’y a de repos pour personne, Paris, France
Galerie Meyer le Bihan, Galerie Idées d’artistes, France
3rd contemporary art biennal of Bourges : Galerie Entre Temps, Bourges, France
2005 Galerie Idées d’artistes : État de Grâce, Paris, France
Art Paris : Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Galerie Grand’Rue, Poitiers, France
Chapelle Sainte Anne, Tours, France
Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine : Les femmes et l’art, Bordeaux, France
2004 Chapelle Saint Jacques : Mémoires du corps, Vendôme, France
2003 Carré/Musée Bonnat : Job, un genou en terre, Bayonne, France
Basilique Saint Jean : Les descentes de croix, Troyes, France
Plaza Conde de Rodezno, Peintures et sculptures : Pamplona, Spain
Le Temple : Taurôs, Caussade, France
MAC-Modern Art Center-Fondation Rustin : Arickx-Nitkowski-Rustin, Anvers, Belgium
2002 Collégiale Saint Pierre-La-Cour, Le Mans, France
Galerie l’Atelier, Le Mans, France
Galerie Idées d’artistes : Un genou en terre, Paris, France
2001 Galerie Art Témoin, Paris, France
St’art 2001, Strasbourg, France
Chapelle des Carmes, Musée de Borda : Tauromachie, Dax, France
2000 Atelier de Guy Lebaigue, Nontron, France
1999 Crucifixion, Eglise de Saint Emilion, France
1998 Centre 2000 : peintures, sculptures, Arcachon, France
Galerie Margaron, Paris, France
Château de Viaud, fresque 25 m x 2,5 m, Lalande de Pomerol, France
Couvent des Cordeliers : Les racines du chaos, peintures, sculptures, Mairie de Paris
Galerie Méduane, Laval, France
1997 Galerie Pierre Marie Vitoux, Paris, France
Salon d’Erné : Guest of honour, Mayenne, France
1995 Galerie Lillebonne, Nancy, France
1994 Galerie Pierre Marie Vitoux, Paris, France
Galerie Gimaray, Paris, France
1992vGalerie Psyché, Martigues, France
Galerie 27, Toulouse, France
Galerie Varga Darlet, Bordeaux, France
1990 Galerie Christine Colmant, Bruxelles, Belgium
Galerie Zour Alten-Deutschen Schule, Thun, Switzerland
Galerie Felman, Paris, France
Galerie Vulkan, Mayence, Germany
Bâle Art Fair (Switzerland) Galerie Colmant (Bruxelles, Belgium)
Galerie Oniris Barnoud, Dijon, France
Linéart Fair : Gand, Belgium (Galerie Vrijdag, Renaix)
Galerie Pierre Marie Vitoux, Paris, France
Galerie Oniris Barnoud, Dijon, France
1989 Galerie Rencontre, Bruxelles, Belgium
RVS Gallery, Southampton N.Y, USA
Carré des Arts du Parc Floral de Vincennes, Paris, France
Barcelona International Art Fair, Barcelone, Spain
Galerie Pierre Marie Vitoux, Paris, France
Galerie Jenny Vrijdag, Renaix, Belgium
1988 Galerie de Giele Gere, Gant, Belgium
Galerie 2016, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Frechen, Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany
Galerie 2016, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Galerie Mat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Oniris Barnoud, Dijon, France
Galerie Jean Briance, Paris, France
Galerie Nicole Buck, Strasbourg, France
1987 Galerie la Malgrange, Thionville, France
Galerie Jaqueline Moussion, Carnac, France
Galerie Nicole Buck, Strasbourg, France
1986 Musée d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France
Galerie Jaqueline Moussion, Nantes, France
FIAC: Galerie Jean Briance, Paris, France
1985 Galerie Jean Briance, Paris, France
Musée de Dunkerque, France
1984 Galerie Garnier, Amiens, France
Galerie Amaury Taittinger, New York, USA
1983 Galerie Amaury Taittinger, New York, USA
Galerie Jean Briance, Paris, France
1982 Galerie Jean Briance Aide à la première exposition, Paris, France
Galerie l’Escapade : « L’Amour », Geneva, Switzerland