BÉATRICE SERRE CELEBRATES 30 YEARS WITH A SOLO EXHIBITION

May 8, 2024

French mosaic artist Béatrice Serre celebrates 30 years of pure creativity with a solo exhibition, where forms, colors, materials, and even nature converge.

 

With a major solo exhibition of new creations and a monograph of her work, French artist Béatrice Serre has a lot to celebrate this year. All are converging as an homage to her three decades as a mosaic artist and creator. “I have invented a new kind of technique. This is 30 years of mosaic exploration. My work is a language."

 

Born in Paris in 1970, her early years were ones of constant movement and travel with her family, which saw them journey from Gabon to China to Brazil. The young Serre was inspired by everything she saw, absorbing all. “I started out with nothing and studied art for seven years. I am interested in everything because everything is linked. With my work, you break something and then you put it back together and everything lives together. All the forms, the colors, and the materials.” It’s an important point of view to keep in mind when viewing her extraordinary work.

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      Béatrice Serre

      Born in Paris, Béatrice Serre spent her childhood between Gabon, China, and Brazil. During these formative years, she found comfort in collecting stones and minerals—a constant in her ever-changing surroundings. This fascination eventually led her to the art of mosaics, which she sees as a “symbol of reconstruction, rebirth, and re-creating.”

       Serre’s journey in mosaic art began at the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris, where she created her first pieces. Her distinctive approach—blending traditional techniques such as block-cutting and marteling with an exquisite selection of stones and minerals—has set her work apart in the world of decorative artst. In 2018, she was awarded the gold medal at the Salon des Artistes Français, further cementing her reputation in this space.

       Her mastery has drawn international recognition. In 2022, Cartier commissioned her to create a monumental Art Deco-inspired piece for their flagship mansion in New York City. Today, her works are featured in prestigious collections worldwide.

       “All this prodigious mineral pathway on which I do not stop evolving, showing myself step by step, how every tessera finds its place within space and time, just like the mandala. This fabulous notion of recreating another dimension from natural elements, such as stones and minerals combined, is revealing the dazzling truth of the importance of any existence on earth and in the universe to me. This thousand-year-old craftsmanship technique is metamorphosed into contemporary mosaic, finding new horizons in architectural decoration, furniture design, the unusual object and pure artwork. The themes are inspired essentially by a combination of space and nature.

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