Exhibitons
2024
Solo exhibition, The Green Door gallery, Bruxelles
Collective exhibition, Prix des Arts de Woluwé-St-Pierre, Bruxelles.
Séquences Organiques, Chapelle de Boondael, Bruxelles
2023
Variation on paper, Gallery space, Vrijdagsmarkt 13, Antwerpen
Impermanence, Pavillon Rhok Academie Etterbeek, Bruxelles.
2022
Rhok’s Eye, Rhok Academie, Musées Maison d’Erasme et Béguinage, Bruxelles.
2021
Transfert, We Art Xl, Parcours d’Artistes d’Ixelles, Bruxelles.
2020
Estampes III, We Art Xl, Parcours d’Artistes d’Ixelles, Bruxelles.
2019
Rhok Academie, Exposition de fin d’études, Bruxelles.
2018
Estampes II, Espace 32, Galerie Rivoli, Bruxelles.
2017
Rhok-e, Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles.
2016
Cosmo Graphie, Varco Pigneto, Rome
Estampe, Atelier Truffino, Bruxelles.
2015
L’impact de la lumière en peinture, conférence, St Luc Bruxelles.
2014
Open Studio, Atelier Jacqueline Devreux, Bruxelles.
2012
Peintures transitoires, Galerie Duqué et Pirson, BruxellesCanvas Collectie, Centre d’Art Contemporain Wiels, Bruxelles.
2011
L’Art pour L’Accueil, Salon Espace Pierre Berger, Bruxelles.
Salons
Sélectionnée au
prix des Arts de Woluw-St-Pierre, Catégorie : Photographie, Images imprimées et Arts Numériques, 2024.
Sélectionnée au prix des Arts de Woluwé-St-Pierre, Bruxelles, 2006.
Sélectionnée au salon du Bon Vouloir, Mons, 2006.
Talk
Rhok’s Eye, Rhok Academie, Exposé sur les oeuvres gravées de l’exposition, Musées Maison d’Erasme et Béguinage, Bruxelles, 2022.
L’impact de la lumière en peinture, Conférence, Institut St Luc Bruxelles, 2015.
Le vrai du faux, Devoir d’Enquête, RTBF, 2013. Participation au film et reconstitution d’un atelier ancien.
Collection
Le Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Louvière
Teaching
Création de « L’Atelier Truffino », copie de tableaux anciens et enseignement des techniques traditionnelles de la peinture à l’huile, depuis 1992
Annual open-air oil painting workshops, Pont-Aven, Bretagne, since 1996
Education
1989
Diplômée d’architecture d’intérieur, ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles.
2013 — 2019
Diplômée de l’atelier Vrije Grafiek à la RHOK Académie, Etterbeek, Bruxelles.
Depuis 2019
Formation dans l’atelier Project à la RHOK Académie, Etterbeek, Bruxelles.
2024
Solo exhibition, The Green Door gallery, Bruxelles
Collective exhibition, Prix des Arts de Woluwé-St-Pierre, Bruxelles.
Séquences Organiques, Chapelle de Boondael, Bruxelles
2023
Variation on paper, Gallery space, Vrijdagsmarkt 13, Antwerpen
Impermanence, Pavillon Rhok Academie Etterbeek, Bruxelles.
2022
Rhok’s Eye, Rhok Academie, Musées Maison d’Erasme et Béguinage, Bruxelles.
2021
Transfert, We Art Xl, Parcours d’Artistes d’Ixelles, Bruxelles.
2020
Estampes III, We Art Xl, Parcours d’Artistes d’Ixelles, Bruxelles.
2019
Rhok Academie, Exposition de fin d’études, Bruxelles.
2018
Estampes II, Espace 32, Galerie Rivoli, Bruxelles.
2017
Rhok-e, Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles.
2016
Cosmo Graphie, Varco Pigneto, Rome
Estampe, Atelier Truffino, Bruxelles.
2015
L’impact de la lumière en peinture, conférence, St Luc Bruxelles.
2014
Open Studio, Atelier Jacqueline Devreux, Bruxelles.
2012
Peintures transitoires, Galerie Duqué et Pirson, BruxellesCanvas Collectie, Centre d’Art Contemporain Wiels, Bruxelles.
2011
L’Art pour L’Accueil, Salon Espace Pierre Berger, Bruxelles.
Salons
Sélectionnée au
prix des Arts de Woluw-St-Pierre, Catégorie : Photographie, Images imprimées et Arts Numériques, 2024.
Sélectionnée au prix des Arts de Woluwé-St-Pierre, Bruxelles, 2006.
Sélectionnée au salon du Bon Vouloir, Mons, 2006.
Talk
Rhok’s Eye, Rhok Academie, Exposé sur les oeuvres gravées de l’exposition, Musées Maison d’Erasme et Béguinage, Bruxelles, 2022.
L’impact de la lumière en peinture, Conférence, Institut St Luc Bruxelles, 2015.
Le vrai du faux, Devoir d’Enquête, RTBF, 2013. Participation au film et reconstitution d’un atelier ancien.
Collection
Le Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Louvière
Teaching
Création de « L’Atelier Truffino », copie de tableaux anciens et enseignement des techniques traditionnelles de la peinture à l’huile, depuis 1992
Annual open-air oil painting workshops, Pont-Aven, Bretagne, since 1996
Education
1989
Diplômée d’architecture d’intérieur, ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles.
2013 — 2019
Diplômée de l’atelier Vrije Grafiek à la RHOK Académie, Etterbeek, Bruxelles.
Depuis 2019
Formation dans l’atelier Project à la RHOK Académie, Etterbeek, Bruxelles.
Marie-Anne is a visual artist and oil painting teacher. She lives and works in Brussels.
Ten years ago, she got introduced to the monotype* technique at RHoK academie in Brussels. Her compositions are drawn spontaneously with a fluid mix of inks and solvents on a smooth zinc plate. The moving inks settle in the printing press during the transfer of the drawing from matrix to paper. Marie Anne exploits the zinc plate with several pressings, additional ink and solvents, paper rotation, displaced margins, highlighting the variations born from a single matrix. Her use of the monotype technique is experimental. The mechanical workings of the press and the spontaneity of the drawing result in lucky accidents. The series suggest an evolution, the passage of time and the perpetual transformation of things. From one print to the next, shapes travel through infinite spaces, metamorphosing and spreading across edges. Textures invite viewers to come closer. Perspectives begin to shift. A molecular world, almost indefinitely small, opens up.
Originally a painter, Marie Anne taught herself classical oil painting techniques by copying old masters in the Royal Museums of Fine Art in Brussels, mostly still lives from the 16th and 17th centuries. Classical notions of transparency, depth, light and shadow keep influencing her monotypes, in an abstract manner. She has been teaching this knowledge and craft in her Atelier Truffino ever since.
* A monotype is a single printmaking technique made by drawing an image with ink on the surface of a zinc plate, with no engraving involved. The image is transferred on a sheet of paper using a printing press.
Ten years ago, she got introduced to the monotype* technique at RHoK academie in Brussels. Her compositions are drawn spontaneously with a fluid mix of inks and solvents on a smooth zinc plate. The moving inks settle in the printing press during the transfer of the drawing from matrix to paper. Marie Anne exploits the zinc plate with several pressings, additional ink and solvents, paper rotation, displaced margins, highlighting the variations born from a single matrix. Her use of the monotype technique is experimental. The mechanical workings of the press and the spontaneity of the drawing result in lucky accidents. The series suggest an evolution, the passage of time and the perpetual transformation of things. From one print to the next, shapes travel through infinite spaces, metamorphosing and spreading across edges. Textures invite viewers to come closer. Perspectives begin to shift. A molecular world, almost indefinitely small, opens up.
Originally a painter, Marie Anne taught herself classical oil painting techniques by copying old masters in the Royal Museums of Fine Art in Brussels, mostly still lives from the 16th and 17th centuries. Classical notions of transparency, depth, light and shadow keep influencing her monotypes, in an abstract manner. She has been teaching this knowledge and craft in her Atelier Truffino ever since.
* A monotype is a single printmaking technique made by drawing an image with ink on the surface of a zinc plate, with no engraving involved. The image is transferred on a sheet of paper using a printing press.
@matruffino
+32474237693
Painting classes in Brussels
Atelier Truffino
www.ateliertruffino.net
Family
Willem Truffino
Karin Truffino
After studying interior architecture at Saint-Luc School of Arts in Brussels, Marie Anne and her sister Karin taught themselves the ancient techniques of oil painting by setting their easels at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, copying still live paintings of Flemish and Dutch masters of the 16th and 17th centuries. They founded a joint copyist studio, Atelier Truffino, replicating historical paintings for private commissioners and churches on one hand, and on the other hand, teaching their techniques to students.
Today, Marie Anne and Karin operate in separate studios in Brussels and the Hainaut region, respectively. Atelier Truffino in Brussels teaches composition drawing, the use of glazes and mediums, the reproduction of textures and materials: the transparency of glass, the shine of metal, the softness of skin, the moiré of a fabric...
This craft continues to influence her monotype practice, in an abstract and personal way. On a technical and formal level, she seeks for transparency, shadow, light or depth. Where the ancient still lives use to spatialise objects in a "classical" perspective with vanishing lines, Marie Anne manufactures depth in her prints by the layering different prints. This superposition of print layers echoes the successive glazes of oil painting.
The objects represented in 17th century still lives also find a resonance in Marie Anne’s contemporary work on a symbolic level: Fruits, flowers, skulls, candles, insects, etc. are perishable objects representing vanity, the fragility of life, the passage of time, the end of everything and the resurrection of the soul. The notion of perpetually transforming things. Similarly, the subject of the monotypes is born from a drawing made organically in a liquid mixture of ink and solvent on the zinc plate. The dripping drawing is in permanent transformation until the action of the press interrupts its movement, transforms it and freezes it on the paper. The printed drawing keeps the stamp of this movement or mutation.
