Speech & Video Presentation by French Artist Dominique Paulin

Kalakriti Art Gallery, twelve years since its inception has come a long way In establishing itself as a well known art gallery, gaining national reputation. To take it ahead, the gallery aims to actively develop and promote contemporary art practices, with discussions and have exchange of thoughts and ideas between artists from India and other countries. The gallery has acquired a building in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, a stone's throw away from its main gallery, which will be known as 'Kalakriti Artists Residency'. The residency will be a creative space for artists, writers and art professionals from across the country and the world.

Kalakriti Art Gallery, in collaboration with the France Embassy in India, has invited Dominique Paulin, the first French artist for a month long residency in Hyderabad.

Dominique PAULIN - Biography

The only doctor in a family of artists, I let myself be drawn in the desire to paint.A double life, at the same time city and hospital doctor, searcher in medical biophysics, and a painter. Listening to, looking after other and expression of my inner work are inseparable; My father, the designer Pierre Paulin, my great uncle Georges Paulin, Bentley's automobile designer and inventor, my mother had studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris, her uncle Salvado was a painter and a model for Picasso.

All my childhood I was immersed in a creative universe between my father's drawing board, my mother's works, my grand father's easel and box of paints, he would tell me about oil painting techniques.I was trained by immersion.At school I covered tables with drawings;

At home, the walls, at the film dub, posters.
Even in my medical biophysics thesis there are drawings.I get involved in very diverse technics and I feel free to invent and associate materials. That absence of art school training and the memory of what I had seen and tied in different places with architects, painters, sculptors allowed me to dare to experiment and take risk, like jumping on the vide. One day I decided to show, the moment had gome In 2007 I meet Dorothee Allaneau who was opening her new gallery,'the Sponte Gallery in Paris. Christine and Pierre Cardin gave me the opportunity of exhibiting" sensorial abstraction" at the Espace Cardin on the Champs Elysees in Paris with 140 canvas.

The success of the exhibition and adventure make me want to continue.

Kalakritl Art Gallery, twelve years since its inception has come a long way in establishing itself as a well known art gallery, gaining national reputation. To take it ahead, the gallery aims to actively develop and promote contemporary art practices, with discussions and have exchange of thoughts and ideas between artists from India and other countries. The gallery has acquired a building in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, a stone's throw away from its main gallery, which will be known as 'Kalakriti Artists Residency'. The residency will be a creative space for artists, writers and art professionals from across the country and the world.

Kalakriti Art Gallery, in collaboration with the France Embassy in India, has invited Dominique Paulin, the first French artist for a month long residency in Hyderabad.