Annick Gendron (1939,[1] in Châtin, Nièvre – 22 October 2008, in Saint-Cloud), was a French abstract painter.
Art
In the 1970s Gendron's innovative way of using and manipulating industrial material and tools as plastic, glass, hydraulics press and centrifuges. Gendron's painting and thought process has always revolved around using often surprising materials plexiglas, fossils, toy soldier, glitters, sponges. Uncommon themes such as the limits to scientific knowledge and the Pan-European identity are central to her work.
At the end of the 1960s she was one of the first artist to use centrifugal force to produce large-sized artworks. Inspired by children's games : spin art, spin painting, her goal was to transcend this modest use to get the most spectacular effects from it.
Damien Hirst got the same idea in the 1990s, as her he transcends the original practice, by the use of more spectacular materials, sizes, shapes, and skill improvement.