BIOGRAPHY
Françoise Luciani is a visual artist born in Burgundy.
Her work is characterised by the use of paper and cardboard.
Her attraction to paper dates back to her childhood, when she would carefully sort everything she found around her by colour.
After studying applied arts, which initially led her to turn to graphic design, she always kept in mind her desire to create with paper. Geometric abstraction and the simplicity of forms came naturally to her and opened the door to art and creation, an infinite field of research that has been open since the beginning of the 20th century.

‘Exploring the issue of dividing space’.

The line is a field of creation that inexorably inhabits its time. It always leads to a constructive principle, a symmetrical or optical visual game. She chose to implement it with paper cut-out constructions. It is her material of choice for the flatness of its colours, the multitude of textures and for multiplying all the possibilities for creating rhythms. The paper is cut, superimposed, offset, inserted, arranged and glued. It requires precision and rigour. It is a radical journey towards balance and intuition.

The ‘constructions’ of Françoise Luciani, text by Pierre Souchaud

Françoise Luciani's art is described as ‘constructed’ in reference to its highly orthogonal ‘geometric’ rigour and to use a term that combines the qualifiers abstract, concrete and non-figurative.

Here, in fact,  aesthetic pleasure seems to come first and foremost from the extreme precision of a unique skill invented by the artist for herself. It also arises from her astonishing mastery of a highly delicate cutting and collage technique, expressing her desire to structure a relationship with the world and bring order to it in three dimensions.

But there is also a fourth dimension, which is the sensitive and sensual apprehension of the material used, its textures, colours, reflections, brilliance, mattness, dizzying transparencies and labyrinthine arrangements.

Thus, intuitive freedom and radicalism of gesture as well as  of expression combine to best effect ,  so that a rhythm, a breath and a kind of kaleidoscopic light emanate from these  works dreaming  of clarity, harmony  and balance for our earthly existence.