Artist: Nicolas Jean Roland CORDIER

Nicolas Cordier Jean Roland was born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1978 and began drawing smurfs in kindergarten. He stopped all artistic activity when he learns the death of Peyo, the creator of the famous little blue imps. He eventually continued drawing and producing objects— he hardly describes as works of art— the same day he joined `school of art’, where he attended with a bit of spite because his most secret dream was to be the first man on the moon. Alas the place is already taken. He even graduated in 2003 with a DNSEP, diploma with which he makes a pretty folding origami.Unfortunately since that day, he continues to draw stupid and ugly things but fortunately for us all his pens are often too dry.

Artist: Alexandre AUCOMTE

Alexandre AUCOMTE attended“Les Beaux Arts”from 1998-2003. During this period he increased his artistic language througha multitude of exploration and expérimentation, which give a delicate attractive sense to his work. Indeed, the purpose is to feed a world of bits and pieces--mixed objects--and mutant animals, amateur video and surrealist drawings used to justify the pathetic and nonsensical nature the subject matter.
His work comes most often by a simple procedure that can be repeated until alienation, intended to resonate the difficulty of being, but the need to persist and live.

Exhibitions
2001 : 3rd prize, Cunlhat sculpture competition
Residency, Dompière Besbre.
2002: ''it is for you, it is for me, that is ours'', Clermont-Ferrand
'taste' , Dompière sur Besbre
2003: '' le temps d un week-end 4 '' Bourges.
2004: 1st prize video and 3 rd prize; photo contest entitled ''ridiculous'' at Clermont Ferrand,
'les enfants du sabbat '' Le Creux de l’Enfer at Thiers
''H2O” Vichy',
''Mars Attaquent'' Yzeure
''mythologies'' 13 bis gallery, Clermont Ferrand
2005: '' lejour de la sirène '' Paris
“Mulhouse 2005” Mulhouse

2006-current: Professor of Art in Clermont-Ferrand High
2009-current: Creation of new works

Artist: Jessica LOPEZ

Post-graduated from Clermont-Ferrand's Fine Art School in 2004, Jessica Lopez is a French Visual Artist and Graphic Designer, mainly working with photograph, video and sound as Installation/Performance. Her artistic statement questions the relationship we have to the object,involving distance and intimacy, collectibles as units of a mass andvery personal and private objects. She also works with food through video and our unavoidable organic interdependence with it. Her major works throughout the last 6 years have been displayed in Le Creux del'Enfer (Thiers, France), Centre for Contemporary Art. She collaborated and created a photographic triptych for Eleonore Grave's Synchronicity 07,Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2008, Jessica was awarded an equipment subsidy by the DRAC (Direction Générale des Affaires Culturelles). She is still very much artistically researching through forms of photography, drawing and graphics while being a Computer-Assisted Learning Teacher.

Birth of L'Escargot Noir

L' Escargot Noir was created in 2009 with the purpose of curating a wide variety of artistic projects. The intention is to offer artists an outlet to create and share their work with a wide audience in France as well as internationally. Considering art as a universal means of communication, L' Escargot Noir intends to initiate cultural events internationally encouraging artistic exchange. Through this exchange L’ Escargot Noir believes that art is certainly a way to share diverse ways of thinking, living, expressing our own stories and to carry those different forms across cultural boundaries.

L’ Escargot Noir is currently working on a project bringing 6 French artists to NY to exhibit in the summer of 2010.

L'Escargot Noir
Curators: Marion Sifreu, Katia Favodon
NYC Co-Curator: Jill Ariela Putterman