I am a french sculptor. My art concentrates on the urban area, on the Art in the City. I would like to propose sculptures for places where people live, to bring happiness, poetry, and color.
I collaborate in designing and creating in public and private spaces (housing, schools, shopping center, tourism resorts, public parks, etc...)
2. Résidence Carmen Caron
78 avenue de la République
Aubervilliers, Seine saint Denis
Project owner : First Avenue
Seeking knowledge
Monumental sculptures for the interior gar-
den of a students and young workers resi-
dence.
Height: 2,50m
The gay and dynamique sculptures in acro-
batic poses are meant to be a representa-
tion of the residents
Polyurethane foam, dyed polyester resin,
clothing, steel.
3. City of Lille
Martin Luther Kings square
Faubourg des postes
Cosmos
Luminous structure
Winning project
4. City of La courneuve
School
Benches
Suggestion
0,50m.
2,50m.
2,m.2,m.
5. Cogedim
Ilot Pasteur, Aubervilliers center city,
Seine saint Denis
Projsect owner : Cogedim
Free time
Monumental sculptures for the interior gar-
den.
Height : 2 m.
On the roof of the VH a monumental cabba-
ge surrounded by a group of people evokes
the vegetable gardens of the past history of
Aubervilliers.
Polyurethane foam, dyed polyester resin,
6. Eiffage / Logirep
Quartier du Pressenssé
Rue de St. Denis
Aubervilliers, Seine saint Denis
Project owner : Eiffage
Welcom to Aubervilliers
Fresco on gable wall combining painting
and sculpture:
A branch of the highway separates this
zone from the rest of the town. The idea is
that this gable should mark the entrance
to the town and show that it belongs to
Aubervilliers ,This is Aubervilliers.
Thesculpturesofcabbagesonabackground
of coloured bands refer to the vegetable
gardens of Aubervillier’s early history.
7. 85 rue Montmarte, Paris IIème 130 rue réaumur, Paris IIIème
City of Paris
85 rue Montmartre, Paris III
133 rue Réaumur, Paris III
Project owner : city of Paris
Tulips
Winning project
Mission entrusted : design, production, ins-
tallation.
Décor on two gable walls combining monu-
mental sculptures and painting
A bunch of brightly coloured tulips offered
to the residents of this densely popula-
ted and intensely active neighbourhood,
a flowered space where flowers are so lac-
king, a haven of peace and calm.
8. City of Paris
School
40 rue du Château des rentiers, Paris XIII
Nursery rhyme
Project owner : Department of Education
Project manager : Jean-François Jodry, ar-
chitect
Mission entrusted : design, production, ins-
tallation Department of Education
Winning project in the context of obligatory
1% decoration
The installation is a project conceived for the
schoolchildren,
This deliberate familiarity transforms the
entrance hall of the school into a space that is
no longer a dramatic separation but a welco-
ming space for encounter and renewal.
The project is adapted to the architecture, the
narrow space, the high ceiling.
The colours of the sculptures correspond to the
colour chart of the building.
12. Gardens festival 2010
Square de la roquette, Paris XIème
Three figures of human scale lie on the
lawn with the upper parts of their bodies
buried underground. They are equidistant
from each other
The lower parts of their T-shirts are made
of lawn ,thus a continuation of the terrain,
the terrain a continuation of the body.
The installation thus proposes two inter-
pretations:
The earth whence we come or where we
go
Ah les Beaux jours !
13. Installation at the gallery Métamorphose
Chaumont sur Loire
Par un beau jour d’été
Marie- Bénédicte
heigt :1, 60 m.
Lentgh: 1, 30 m.
width: 0, 80 m.
Louis - Andrè
heigt: 1, 70m.
Boniface
heigt: 1, 70m.
14. Dunkerque 2013
Regional capitale of culture
Palm Beach at port de Dunkerque
Organizatn of a contemporyart installation
in patnership with the port museum.
The project is aimed at the widest
audience.
It aims to:
Bring in a museum a population that is
remote
Bring to the port museum attracted a new
audience of contemporary art
Challenge, amaze, arouse curiosity walkers
on the dock.
On the port Museum’s bage :
A great diver facing the horizon - length 4m
Three swimmers facing the city - length 3m
15. Lives in Paris
Works in Aubervilliers
Graduate of the National School of Decorative
Arts of Paris
BIO
A sculptor nurtured by the eclectism of the School
of Decorative Arts in Paris, Taïne’s insparation lies
in anecdotes drawn from her everyday life.
Her work is a scenography of émotions, sentiments,
a fixing of memories, an illustration of ordinary life.
Memories of dispersed moments, objects and mate-
rials, are ordered in structured but living composi-
tions.
Sculptures, materials, decorative techniques, are all
associated in a gay and whimsical presentation to
narrate, with impassioned intonations, an incessant
chattering, a story that must release emotion.
In parallel with a continuing personal quest, I colla-
borate in the equiping of public and private spaces.
My objective : to illustrate through creativity and hu-
mour the function of the sites, to facilitate their ap-
propriation by the people who frequent them, while
maintaining a great respect for the architecture.
The realisation must participate in the everyday life
around and not remain lifeless and unchanging.
Inscribed in the site, it must be in harmony with it, a
representative element.
Respecting the constraints and objectives of each
project, I take charge of the whole project of visual
animation, or intervenes with sculptures or décors in
collaboration with the project manager and owner
About Sculptures
The sculptures are carved in polyurethane foam
then stratified: fiberglass, polyester resin
Their clothes are real clothes stratified.
The final colour is obtained by successive layers of
dyed resin
A final coat of acrylic paint.
The materials used allow for lightweight volumes
(facilitating installation), longlasting,
respecting the norms of security (fire class M1),
resistant to impact, resistant to climat.
16. 2015
Le temps libre - Monumental Sculptures - Private orders :
Cogedim & Logirep – Aubervilliers - France.
2014
Bienvenue à Aubervilliers - Fresco - Private orders : Eif-
fage & Logirep - Aubervilliers - France.
Cache-cache - Sculptures - Gardens festival - Paris XIe
-
France.
2013
Palm Beach at port de Dunkirk - Installation - Dunkirk
2013, Regional capital of culture - Dunkirk - France.
Palm Beach à Rio - Installation - Gardens festival - Campo
de Santana - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.
Filles de Londres - Installation - French Institut - Vienna -
Austria.
2012
A la recherche du savoir - Monumental Sculptures - Pri-
vate orders : Project owner : First Avenue - Aubervilliers
- France
Par un beau jour d’été - Installation in the park of la Si-
gnoria -
Gallery Marie Ricco Calvi - Corse - France.
Divaguer - Monumental Sculptures - Installation -
Gardens festival - Paris XIe
- France.
2011
Palm Beach at port du Viviers - Installation - Circuit of
contemporary art Sentier du Rhône - Port du Viviers - Ar-
déche - France
Les Dolce Vita à Chicago - Exhibition- Arc Gallery- Chica-
go- USA.
Around the world without Limit - Installation - Nuit
blanche festival - France.
Les dolce vita à Calvi - Installation - Festival du vent -
Calvi - Corse
2010
Nouvelle Eve - Installation - In the greenhouses of the
city of Aubervilliers - France.
Nouvelle Eve - Installation - Gardens festival - square Sta-
lingrad - Aubervilliers - France.
Ah les beaux jours ! – Installation - Gardens festival - Paris
XIe
- France.
Palm Beach - Installation - Nuit blanche festival - France.
2009
Filles de Londres - Installation - 25 ans du Génie de la Bas-
tille - Paris XIe
- France.
The other dining room - Installation - Textile museum -
Husseren-Wesserling park - Wesserling - Alsace.
Darjeeling - Installation - Cultural park, Rentilly - France.
2008
Very stylish underwear, amazing tops - Exposition Gale-
rie Le Rayon Vert - Nantes - France.
Very Attractive Women - Installation - Halles Alsthom -
Nantes - France.
La conversation - Installation - Private orders - Tecomah
- school of horticulture and environment of the Cham-
ber of Commerce and Industry of Paris - Jouy-en-Josas
- France.
17. 2005
Dolce vita - Sculpture - Exhibition Gallery Tondinelli - Rome - Italy
Pince vent - Artistic intervention within the renovation of the
shopping mall - Private orders - Chènevières/Ormesson - France.
2004
Exposition Galerie Daragnes - Paris Ve
- France.
Dancer - Sculpture - First prize in a monumental sculpture compe-
tition for an old age residence in Malaga - Spain
Exposition City hall - Oslo - Norvège.
2003
Intervention artistique - Public orders : Ville du Perreux-sur-Marne
- France.
2002
Nursery ryhme - Installation - school - Public orders : city of Paris -
rue du château des rentiers - Paris XIIIe
- France.
2001
Fresque murale Advancia - Fresco - Advancia, School of the Cham-
ber of Commerce and Industry of Paris - Paris XIVe
- France.
Personal exhibition - Advancia -School of the Chamber of Com-
merce and Industry of Paris - Paris XIVe
- France.
2000
exhibition Galerie Martine Moisan - Paris - France.
exhibition Salon d’art contemporain - Morsang-sur-Orge - France.
1999
Rocher - Sculpture for the President’s office - Private orders -
Groupe Total - La Défense - Paris - France
exhibitionSalond’artcontemporain«Gebo-Art»-Draveil-France.
exhibition Société Syndex- Paris Xe
- France.
1998
exhibition Galerie Martine Moisan - Paris - France.
exhibition Itinéraire 98 - Levallois-Perret - France.
exhibition Salon d’art contemporain - Troyes - France.
1997
exhibition 42e
Salon de Montrouge : Île de France - France
1996-1993
Tulips - Fresco on two gable walls, painting ans sculpture - Public
orders : Ville de Paris – winning project - Paris - France.
1995
Intervention artistique - Sculptures signage - Public orders
Centre Commercial Grand Littoral- Marseille - France.
1994
Scarlett – sculpture - Public orders - Négocia, School of the
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris- Paris - France.
1993
Pilot - sculpture - Public orders - Groupe Accor - île de France -
France.
1990 -1995
Various Decor - Private orders - Theaters - Marigny - de
l’Odéon- des Champs-Élysées - Opéra de Bordeaux - France.
1990
Drapery decor - Private orders - Disney resort Paris - Île de
France - France.
1988-1989
Drapery decor - Private orders - Parc Astérix - Île de France -
18. Taine Gras- Sculptor
13 rue de l'échiquier Paris X
+ 33 6 86 82 10 65
taine@tainegras.com
http://www.tainegras.com