Katy Couprie was born in 1966 in Fontenay-aux-Roses. In 1990 she graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, where she worked with various artistic techniques (photography, design, architecture, video, printing and engraving). She went on studying photography at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Katy Couprie considers the children’s book as a space of great freedom and creation. Her first projects, done without the collaboration of an editor, start with small elements: an idea, a sentence, a note. Her first editorial experience was an album without words, made of photographs, in which the sequences are constructed according to a very simple structure. In 1991, Robert Pinou gave her the opportunity to work on the relationship between text and images for the first time. Since the publication in 1999 of Tout un monde she has regularly collaborated with Antonin Louchard for Thierry Magnier, creating “imagiers” and chunky board books. Parallel to her work as an illustrator, Katy Couprie regularly exhibits her work and continues to target an adult public, even though the children's book world has kept her busy for 13 years and has given her the chance to create highly innovative works.

Palazzo Chierici

piazza Fontanesi - Reggio Emilia
tel. 0522 451152 - 456249

Hours
Opening 30 April at 18.00
From 1 to 3 May from 10.00 to 23.00
From 5 May to 7 June: from Tuesdays to Fridays from 18.00 to 23.00; Saturdays, Sundays and festivals from 10.00 to 23.00

 

Open for children and kids from 1 to 3 May from 10.30 to 12.00 and from 16.30 to 18.00 with art workshop. Meeting with Katy Couprie on Saturday 2 May from 16.30 to 18.00 and Sunday 3 May from 10.30 to 12.00.

Open for all comers on Friday 1 May and on Saturday 2 May from 20.00 to 21.30

 

Info: tel. 051 6154463 (Giannino Stoppani)