Painter
Catherine Monmarson
Born in 1947 in Orleans
Art studies in Paris.
“It is by drawing, painting, modeling that I have really become aware of the world around me and I now experience art as a privilege. This is the best way for me to stay “awake.”
The painter doesn’t know where his eyesight is going, he paints to find out.
The painter’s eye is one who is astonished, who marvels, who worries. The painter’s gesture is the conductor of a subtle music, held deep within oneself, liberated with simplicity and sincerity to make his way between the unconscious and the sensations and go to meet the emotion.
The Body in question? I work in two stages: first the spontaneous gesture that will take possession of the space, then a slower time, which balances, builds and gives shape to this energy (cohesion, tension and movement). The memory of the body is a reflection of the memory of the mind.
Is the painting propose an inner journey ? Addressing places that reason cannot reach? Turning the invisible into the visible?
Painting, in this sense, is the most solitary adventure, an individual private mystic.”
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For many years Catherine Monmarson seeks refuge ever further in herself, exhausts herself ever more, tries a thousand combinations, to try to understand what contains the Universe of the Human Body, to try to guess what the real elements are in it, looking at it to the point of fascination, sensing the form, the forces of that form, and then reducing it to nothing to carry ever higher this intensity of naked presence.