- Valérie Favre
Valérie Favre (born 1959,
Evilard ,Switzerland ) is an artist who lives and works inBerlin .Since 2006 she is Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
1999 Valérie Favre startet a painting series called „Lapines Univers“, what could be translated as „bunny women in the universe“. It consists of animal women that are a mixture of
Lara Croft , who is the virtual pesonalization of a powerful woman and the bunny girls fromplayboy , who are the personalization of the reduction of a woman to her sexuality. This series has a liability tofeminism , because the french word „Lapine“ does not only describe a bunny, but also a penis, if it is spelled „ la pine“. So Favre uses the paint brush as a kind of substitude for a penis to persist in the chauvinistic surroundings in the field of painting.She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter [http://www.vielmetter.com/] in Los Angeles and Barbara Thumm [http://www.bthumm.de/] in Berlin, Germany.
External links
* [http://vielmetter.com/artists/Favre/valerie_favre.htm Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Valérie Favre bio, press releases und works] General information on Valérie Favre
* Valérie Favre on [http://www.artnet.com/artist/6058/Valerie_Favre.html Art net]
* Valérie Favre on [http://www.artnews.info/valeriefavre/ Art News]
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