For artist Delphine Courtillot, sculptures are the gateway for people to reconnect with the primitive state of our human nature.
Artist Delphine Courtillot seeks to reconnect her viewers to the primitive state of our human nature.You were born in Paris and studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver and at the Ecole Nationale Supeìrieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. You now live and work in Amsterdam. Can you tell us about how you started out as an artist?
Then I met my boyfriend, the Dutch artist Folkert de Jong, and I moved for love to Amsterdam. The art scene there, thankfully, was much more open. A lot of artists ran spaces and provided opportunities for young artists like myself. We moved to New York City shortly after, and that was where we lived and worked for a time.
I worked quite extensively for many years as a painter, and at one point it felt like I had hit a wall. I had given everything I had in me and I realised that I was craving for a kind ofI had experience in designing theatre costumes for a New York-based theatre company; and thereafter I created a utopian art collection called, “Atelier Familial”. The artworks were inspired by early 20th-century avant-garde movements, traversing the dangerous zone where artworks can be used as commodities.
The experience felt like I was drawing close to the primitive nature of humanity by listening to an inner voice. That compelled me to carry on but it was also a perplexing journey because I was proceeding with no apparent goal, or was guided by any concept. With my sculptures, I am trying to combine this meditative approach to the landscape and to invite the viewer to draw on their dreamlike interpretation.
You now live in Amsterdam. Can you share with our readers your favourite museum in this iconic Dutch city?
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