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Née à Bruxelles en 1947.
Vit et travaille en Belgique.
Etudes de 1963 à 1970 à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Mons.
A été professeure de dessin à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai.
Pratique la peinture, le dessin, la photographie, la vidéo, installations dans des sites naturels, la gravure, les livres-objets.

1963-1970 : Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mons: including 4 years of higher education in the following courses: monumental decoration, engraving, painting.

1973 : Nadine Fiévet experiments with different acrylic and screen printing techniques (cardboard collage, decoupage)

Since then, she has regularly presented thematic solo exhibitions influenced by her experience, travels and specific projects.

1977 : Gallery "Le Miroir d'Encre", she shares the gallery with Pol Bury and proposes under the title "Monographie" a series of works starting from the same image reproduced on different supports, for example printing on a cake with chocolate ink.

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1978-1980 : exhibitions in Tournai ,Ghent, gallery "Lavuun", Valenciennes, gallery "Cinabre" . Then, living in the countryside, she finds in her attic a series of old photographs. Immediately, she made a silkscreen work, and imagined the story of these characters, a series of lead pencil drawings and acrylic paintings will complete this theme.

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1981 -1984 : Gallery "l'Aturiale" , Liége .Gallery " Detour " Jambes. Gallery "Miroir d’encre", Brussels. Nature and landscape will be the recurring theme of most of her life.

1985 : In situ installation: "Articulture" park and castle of Mariemont... Cyclical and ephemeral work using the support that is the grass, she installs lead rectangles on the lawns that will be multiplied and moved every 15 days, leaving ghost tracks. From time to time, we will find the insertion of lead in her work.

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1988 : For the film "La Parabole de Hélicoptère", she paints on car bodies. Exhibition of photographs of selected pieces in Brussels, Lisbon, Paris (a video is created from this realization.)

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1989 : Another in situ work was the basis for several years of painting work. "Ramp'Art" in the parc in Binche. Along the stream that runs through the parc of Paternotte, Nadine Fiévet has installed  irregularly cut out  mirrors, sometimes inserted into the edge of the stream, sometimes placed on the banks. The edge of the mirror cuts through the water, another mirror, the passage of time and the reflections create a magical and dreamy graphic dialogue from which will emerge: a series of paintings and acrylics on paper which are the realization of this project,  and a series of important exhibitions will follow until 1993,  including the gallery"Modus Vivendi" in Zurich and at the Abbaye de la Court in Colfontaine (1991) where there still is a painting on display.

A video is produced with a text by Louis Savary, "Projet de décor pour un désir illégitime" that will accompany the exhibitions

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1997 : At that time, her husband was keeping homing pigeons. In the pigeon loft, their flapping wings cause an almost permanent cloud of dust. She exploits this theme and this atmosphere will be transcribed into painting and drawings, with painted windows to depict the blur and mysterious shadows of the pigeons' flight. Exhibitions gallery "Arets", Brussels, "Le Béguinage", Courtrai, 1998 " Espace RONEO ", Paris.

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2000 -2003 : Following a trip to Peru and Bolivia, creation of an artist's book catalogue: "Beyond Signs".

​After visiting Nazca and accessing excavations, the discovery of objects and mummies, Louis Savary will write texts in parallel with the works of Nadine, and Michel Voiturier will write the preface to this catalogue which will accompany 7 exhibitions. "Ephemeral", Gallery, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Quaregnon, Cultural Centre, "Cluysenaar" Foundation, Eghezée, Lille, Arras, "Gallery of the White Flag", "Vanderwekene Gallery", Visé, "Foundation for Belgian Art" Brussels.

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2005-2008 : Through chance encounters, she creates “object-books” together with writers. So, when she is offered an exhibition at the Centre “Wallonia/Brussels", she decides to work with 10 authors and poets from Wallonia and she will produce an impressive series of paintings, drawings and “object-books” by integrating their texts into the works inspired from their worlds. Four exhibitions will follow and a catalogue is published by the Province of Hainaut, resulting in the experiment: "SYMBIOSES D'ECRITURES", Brussels, "Centre Wallonie", Frameries, "La Fabrique", Braine-le-Comte, Church of the Dominicans, and Charleroi, "Library Atrium ".

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2008 : "Landscapes Revisited" following trips to Asia, many souvenir paintings evoking Moorish, Persian and Buddhist architecture, contrasting with the light or the offering tables typical of Nepal or Burma. Gallery "Beciani", Charleroi ,The "White Flag", La Louvière.

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2009 -2012: "Galerie.be", Brussels, Gallery "Hors - Château ", Liège, Gallery  " Beukenhof ", Kluisbergen .

2009-2010 : For a play by playwright Victor Haïm, she designs three monumental paintings that will serve as a setting... Then, having the opportunity to exhibit these paintings at the Mouscron swimming pool, now the Museum of Fine Arts, she completes this theme of the volcano with a series of 40 monotypes that will be hung on the black doors of the changing rooms.

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2011 -2014 : Duo exhibitions with sculptors.

"La Maison d'Anna", Frameries, with Mario Ferreti, Gallery " The impression", Dinant, with Jacques Iezzi, Lotto Mons Expo, "De Tôle et de Toile" with Jean-Claude Saudoyez.

Publication of a catalogue "Entre équilibre et démesure".

The same exhibition is on show in Holland at the "Notre Dame des Arts" Gallery.

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2016 : BACK TO THE NILE: first collaboration with the poetess Cecilia Burtica...The latter will write a series of 21 texts based on acrylics on paper that suggest the aquatic atmosphere surrounding the mythical Nile River.

Publication by the Belgian Embassy of a "Back to the Nile" catalogue in French and Arabic. And 4 exhibitions, first at the Residence of the Belgian Ambassador in Cairo and at the "The Shelter" Gallery. In September, at the "Cordoba" Gallery.

National and Regional TV broadcasts.

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2017 : February, Gallery "Espace Blanche", Brussels.

  BORDERS : ”object-book” with texts by Cecilia Burtica in French and Romanian: "Frontiers". Around this book, Nadine Fiévet contacts other women writers, resulting in extraordinary encounters around the theme of the different “BORDERS” of languages and stories.

And in February 2018: Concretization of this project at La Maison Losseau in Mons "SEPT FEMMES CENT FRONTIERES" ( seven women, hundred borders, pronounced in french as seven women without borders ( catalogue).

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2018 : Another project with Cecilia as curator.

QATAR, DOHA: Centre Art Katara, double exhibition, a room with paintings on the theme: Landscape of the North and Light of Qatar,with the majestic presence of the falcon, and another room with an installation of transparent drawings on tracing film, the lightness of these spontaneous drawings evoking the flight of falcons.

A luxurious catalogue is also published, "Mimèsis, le paysage en voyage".The poetic texts accompanying the works are translated into Arabic.With the preface in English by the Belgian Ambassador Bart De Groof...

 

We can say that Nadine Fiévet’s work is known and appreciated beyond our borders and her works travel the world.

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Currently, different projects are being implemented.

Landscape painting evolves towards more abstractions and colours.

 To be discovered in Wavre in june 2020 !

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