(Nancy, France, 1936)
Parvine Curie, of French-Iranian origin, was born in Nancy, studied in Bordeaux, graduated in Paris, where her parents ran a pharmacy, before travelling extensively, especially to Spain.
In 1957 she discovered Catalan art and decided to settle in Barcelona, where she produced her first sculptures. She lives with Catalan sculptor Marcel Martí, with whom she had a son in 1959. In 1960 she presented her first solo exhibition at the Institut Français of Barcelona.
In 1970, Parvine Curie took up a studio at the Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris. This work was noticed by sculptor François Stahly, who recognised in it a great affinity with his work of the time. She moved with him and his wife to Crestet’s collective workshop in Vaucluse and then to Meudon. Although she had previously practised sculpture as a self-taught artist, it was there that she took up her basic training.
Today, her work is the subject of retrospectives (such as in Angers in 2012), or permanent installations such as “the path”, made up of thirteen sculptures created between 1972 and 1990, in the garden of the Meudon Museum.