Odile
Geoffroy Gibson alias ODI .
Bom in France
in 1941 , on the run toward the Corrèze , where her
father, the musicologist Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume was in
the resistance, helped by her mother, danich painter, Grethe
Svare Palsbo.
After the war,
she lives twelve years in Demnark, and come back to Paris
in 1959 where she studies the theatre with Tama Balachova
and Marianne Stein.
She plays in two
François Truffaut's productions , "Le Scarabée
d'Or" of Robert Lachenay and "Tire aux
Flancs 62" of Claude de Givray, films of Jean-Luc
Godard among which "Les Carabimers", and "La
Belle Vie" of Robert Enrico.
In theatre she
plays in "La Religieuse" at the Studio
des Champs Elysées With Jacques Rivette,. "Le
Révizor" with Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée
at the C.D.O., "Les Pépins De La Pomme"
at La Gaieté Montparnasse and Café Theatre.
Married with the
art critic Michael Gibson from 1969 to 1976 with whom she
has two children.
She writes and
instructs a play with children "Il Etait Une Baleine"
at Le Kaléidoscope that become also a record , and
creates an Atelier in Rue de la Bucherie for children and
adults where one can learn pottery, sculpture, painting, jazz-ballet,
receives artists among whom Steve Lazy , Ricet Barrier , Martin
Saint-Pierre, Los Gringos and organises exhibitions.
Then leaves Paris
and restores a farm in the Midi-Pyrénées. it's
time for naturel gardening and solar panels. Also for a new
association artistic and creative.
Reading, in particular
Sri Aurobindo, meditation and concentration takes more and
more place. In the ninety's the painting impose itself to
her suddenly and unexpected as an energy from a source of
life inexhaustile, a1ways present.
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