VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Antoinette ROZAN
Sculptor and Painter
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Antoinette was born in 1970 in Suresnes with congenital cataracts. Nearly blind in one eye, she has no perception of depth. At the age of seven, she developed severe scoliosis. Her vertebrae were fused, and she spent several years confined in a brace.
It wasn’t until the early 2000s that she discovered her true calling as an artist—first working with clay, then plaster, before eventually turning to painting.
In 2005, she created her first plaster sculpture, FREE, a tribute to freedom and tolerance. That same year, she exhibited for the first time in a gallery in Aix-en-Provence, where she lived and worked.
In 2006, she moved to Hong Kong, where she fully embraced her identity as an artist.
She went on to create several large-scale sculptures, including her most renowned piece, FREE XXL, which was exhibited at the Hong Kong Fair in 2018.
Today, dividing her time between exhibitions in France and Asia, Antoinette continues to explore life through painting and sculpture, creating works that radiate warmth and joy.
for MOVEMENT
"Movement is life. A beating heart makes no sound, leaves no trace, yet it is a vital force. It is in death that movement seems absent, yet paradoxically, that is when our bodies begin their transformation into dust. In the end, everything is in motion."
2023 – Jump it Make it
Digital print and acrylic painting
Unique piece - 122 x 93.3 in
for ENERGY
"We are particles of energy and information.
Everything is a flow of energy.
And in that, we feel alive."
2011 - AURA SWING
Bronze
57.5 x 28.3 x 20.9 in
for LIBERTY
"I lived in Hong Kong for 15 years, in a place where freedoms are becoming increasingly restricted.
Liberty is a complicated word, both to hear and to live by, here or there.
People instinctively call my sculpture FREE by another name, HAPPY.
And in the end, that’s perfect because freedom is happiness!"
2009 - FREE
Bronze
27.6 x 26.8 x 25.6 in
for AMOUR
"My great hearts are like "Art Banners" to bring people together around a common cause— a call for Love, for Life, for putting the heart back at the center of our lives instead of our ego.
In my paintings, my figures are tiny. They serve as a reminder of humility.
These "Art Banners" are a response to rebellion, a symbol of unity!"
2022 - ETEND’ARTS
Digital print and acrylic painting – Unique piece
122 x 122 in
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2009 - SPIRALE DE VIE
Bronze
70 x 68 x 65 cm
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Le premier FREE est né en 2005, en plâtre. Je découvre cette matière qui m’autorise à me détacher des conventions académiques pour créer en toute liberté, en suivant mon intuition. Au fil des années, ce personnage devient emblématique de mon travail.
Exposée seule, FREE est une sculpture qui incarne la Liberté d’Être soi-même. Les installations que je crée, avec plusieurs FREE, sont des Arbres de vie. Ces sculptures installées ainsi les unes à côtés des autres, donnent l’illusion d’être différentes. Toutes ces sculptures sortent pourtant du même moule. Tel notre ADN, celui de l’Humanité, elles sont identiques. Et pourtant, par leurs poses et leurs attitudes, elles deviennent uniques.
Accueillante par sa posture, elle appelle à s’ouvrir à soi-même tout en respectant l’autre et ses particularités. À l’opposé d’une sculpture « statique », au-delà d’une statue, elle est toute en mouvement. FREE exprime toute en subtilité l’illusion de la différence. Cette sculpture exprime alors un message de Joie : celui d’être libre d’être nous-même et de vivre dans le respect de l’Autre.