Florane Gindroz Iseli, Bastien Conus

Florane Gindroz Iseli

Professional training, career
2000                  Beaulieu grammar school in Lausanne, commercial professional
2006                  University of the Arts in Bern, FH diploma as conservator-restorer
2001-2002         Conservation Department, University Library of Bern UB
Summer 2003   Département de la restauration d'art graphique, Musée Carnavalet. Paris
Summer 2004   Atelier de conservation-restauration, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel
2005/2007-'08   Atelier de restauration Florence Darbre, Nyon
2008-09.2017    Restoration department, Library of Geneva

Current Activity
Since 2017, Atelier pour le papier Sàrl, in Yverdon

Further information

2010 – 2023, various training courses in the field of conservation-restoration of books and archival documents, making a karibari, filling with cellulose pulp, conservation sensibilisation, Japanese papers and Suminagashi, in Yverdon, Geneva, Paris, Mulhouse and Bern.
Member of associations such as: ICOM, AFHEPP, IADA, SKR/SCR, SIGEGS.

Bastien Conus

Professional training, career
Bastien Conus is a child of Lake Geneva and an admirer of Ramuz and Tadao Fukada.
Driven by his passion for the element of water, paper and ink, he pursues a
hyper-materialist research that is experimental and invites participation in the democratic
process.
From 2019: teaching and moderating various workshops on Suminagashi, the art of
floating Japanese ink. (Vivianne Fontaine, Sogetsu, Japan Impact, Japanese-
Swiss Society, retirement and nursing homes, community centres, etc.).

Current Activity
He develops an anti-traditionalist practice of floating Japanese ink in everyday life and at the
local level.

Further information
Performances:
2023 "L'écorce du Réverbère", drawing to the words of the poet Vincent Gilloz.
2021 "Rester en surface est vital", invited as part of the master's course of Mbaye Diop,
          HEAD, Geneva.
2021 "Pictobello", Vevey
2020 "Encre de chine sur musique articulée", drawing to the music of the cellist Mathieu
         Rouquié

Exhibitions:
From 2012 to the present: in Lausanne, Biel, Geneva, Nyon, Malta, Atalanta (USA) and Chile.

A selection of his publications:
2018 "36 Dessins à (dé)passer en couleur", Editions Ripopée, Nyon.
2018 "Aristide Hors-Série - Transhumanisme", Milkshake Agency, Geneva
2018 "On fait quelque chose entre Noël et Nouvel-an? ", Angry Old Man Magazine
2013 "ATP Masters“
2013 „Asemic Follow-Up", self-published
2012 "Bite, cul, nichons et chatte", Editions Ripopée
2011 "La taille de l'oeuf ", Editions Ripopée