CÉCILE CARRÉ, Nouméa 1973

“Painting today is an act of resistance. The long years required to invent a personal world demand enormous work—sometimes thankless, rarely understood—a considerable effort. The result is seldom guaranteed. Ruptures and a lack of dialogue make the work of many artists difficult to access.

Cécile’s paintings are the result of a lifetime of observation.
Each line, each patch of color vibrates with an invisible music. Everything tells the story of a sense of wonder before the spectacle of the world.
Beauty is surely in the eye of the beholder, but before Cécile’s paintings, beauty blinds us with its presence.
This personal gaze is an explosion of colors and forms.

How does one invent a language? By searching for an expression that might eventually recount, reveal, and allow us to feel fragments of a world of her own, Cécile has slowly transformed her painting.

Over many years, poetic observation has given way to a mature and rich expression.
The paintings of these recent years are the fruit of an artistic fragmentation of the lived world and the world as perceived. This fragmentation appears on two levels: a fragmentation of the whole, and a fragmentation of detail—of colors and forms. The whole is thus separated and intuitively reconstructed in a symphony that is uniquely hers.

Thus, in looking at her paintings, we return to that first observation: to paint is to ‘love again’ (Henry Miller).
To love the beauty of the world. And to make painting a manifestation of existence, often invisible but always present.”

Gezim Pacarizi, architect

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Cécile is French and lives in Barcelona. 

Interior designer graduated from the École Boulle in Paris, she founded her own interior design firm, MisMAS Interiorismo, Barcelona.

Great traveler, she creates travel diaries of architectural observations and has published a book (Carnet de voyage de Noces, Le Seuil 2003) recounting a year-long trip between Istanbul and Beijing.

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