Agnès Boulmer, aka Sènga la Rouge,
pluridisciplinary visual artist
and freelance based in Paris
Graduate of the École nationale supérieure
des Arts décoratifs in Paris
Sènga la Rouge works in French and English
ART DIRECTOR IN PUBLISHING
An art director for more than 20 years in publishing, I particularly specialized in graphic design of coffee table books (photo books, corporate books, exhibition catalogues, book series…).
Each of my designs is accompanied by in-depth listening, analysis, and advice in order to achieve my mission: that you recognize yourself in the finished project, but that you are also surprised, amused, moved, inspired to dream… and very proud of the result.
Designing a book is creating a setting, a particular atmosphere, a precious case. To do so, my work distinguishes itself by being a chromatic experience but also a tactile, poetic and playful one, a search for elegance and singularity, a love of craftsmanship and refined details. I have at heart that the reader not only enjoys flipping through the pages but also enjoys holding the object itself.
DISCOVERING NEW WORLDS
THROUGH ILLUSTRATION
Passionate about travelling, foreign cultures and unfamiliar worlds, my drawing practice first took the form of travel sketchbooks and moved to illustrated books in collaborations ranging from anthropology to circus arts, from botany to cooking.
My favorite tools are India ink and watercolors. But I also very much like the versatility of digital coloring. I use one or the other technique depending on the project.
MOTION DESIGN
AND OTHER GRAPHIC ADVENTURES
I am always enthusiastic about new graphic adventures: my activity sector extends to the design of visual identities, printed or animated greeting cards, various communication media, wallpaper design…
The types of know-how involved in graphic design, illustration and motion design mutually enrich each others, and I enjoy mixing typography, colors and drawings to create unique graphic creations, printed or animated.
NETWORK OF PROFESSIONALS
Depending on the requirements of each project, I can call on a wide network of professionals and faithful collaborators (photographers, authors, publishers, developers, illustrators… )
• 108 devinettes du Tibet (108 Riddles of Tibet), L’Asiathèque, 2019
Collaboration with the linguists and Tibetan scholars Françoise Robin and Véronique Gossot on an ancestral Tibetan tradition
• Learning from the Curse, Sembene’s Xala, Hurst & Co publisher, 2017
Collaboration with the British anthropologist and professor Richard Fardon on the work of the Senegalese author Sembene
• (Dis)cordes, carnet de voyages ((Dis)cords, travelogue), Édition du petit véhicule, 2015
At the request of the Sens dessous dessous circus company, graphic work on the creation of the show (Dis)cordes
• Petites élucubrations graphiques après avoir croqué le spectacle Mister Monster (Little lucubrations after sketching the show Mister Monster), artist’s book, 2012
Graphic work, from the theater and the wings, on Mister Monster, show created by the Anomalie &… company and Philippe Eustachon
• Ce que j’aime en toi (What I Like in You), collective work of Les Tribulants voyageurs, Éditions Alternatives, 2007
Illustrated travelogue on the theme of love and desire
• Carnet de voyage (travelogue), VediorBis, textuel, 2001
Tour of Europe in drawings for the changeover to the euro
textuel
L’Asiathèque
Hurst & Co Publisher
Iciprod
Mailpoet
Libération
Cie Anomalie &…
Cie Sens dessus dessous
Cie Désuète
Parc Branféré
Fondation de France
…
• TOP COM D’OR 2014 (Perrier c’est fou!, Nestlé Waters, textuel)
• GRAND PRIX TOP COM 2009 (D’art et de papier, Canson, textuel)
• GRAND PRIX STRATÉGIES 2007 (L’art des trains et des gares, SNCF, textuel 2007)
• MENTION DESIGN STRATÉGIES 2008 (L’art des trains et des gares, SNCF, textuel 2007)
• TOP COM D’ARGENT 2007 (Le feu, Dalkia, textuel)
• TOP COM D’OR 2003 (Toute entreprise est une aventure humaine, la Cegos, textuel)
• Exhibition of the drawings of the book 108 devinettes du Tibet (108 Riddles of Tibet) on the occasion of the book’s launch, November 2019, Librairie-Galerie Impressions, Paris
• En dedans de moi (Inside me), participatory exhibition created in collaboration with Aurélie Galibourg, dancer and choreographer, parallel to the show Dedans mon corps (Inside my body) premiered in May 2018 in Corbeil-Essonnes by the Compagnie Desuète (traveling exhibition following the show’s tour)
• Exhibition of drawings done in Tibet, Festival des civilisations, INALCO, April 2016
• Exhibition of drawings of the creation of the show (Dis)cordes ((Dis)cords), premiered in 2015 at the Théâtre Antoine Vitez d’Ivry by the Compagnie Sens Dessus Dessous (traveling exhibition following the show’s tour)
• Exhibition of travelogues, head office of France Loisirs, Paris, 2009
• Festival Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere festival), Brest, 2006
• Exhibition of travelogues, Reine de Saba space, Paris, 2005
• Exhibition of travelogues, Eaubonne library
• Festival de carnets de voyage (Illustrated Travelogues festival), Clermont-Ferrand, 2003 and 2004
• Festival Étonnants voyageurs (Astonishing Travelers festival), Saint-Malo, 2004
• Un voyage dans la poche, festival de carnets de voyage (A Trip in My Pocket illustrated travelogue festival), Médiathèque Blaise-Cendrars, Conflans-Saint-Honorine, 2004
• Les coulisses de l’Opéra (The wings of the Opéra), at the Opéra Garnier (watercolors), 1993
Éditeur du site : Sènga la Rouge/Agnès Boulmer, 118, rue de Clignancourt • 75018 Paris • SIRET 404 315 335 00038
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Photographies : © Sènga la Rouge • © Jean-Louis Blérol
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