Cécile Duchêne Malissin
Biography
Born in Paris. Lives and works in Montargis, France.
Both realistic and dreamlike, Cécile Duchêne Malissin's paintings encourage introspection and address our relationship to nature, ourselves and others. The artist's landscape paintings comprise of imaginative compositions where the real and the dreamlike coexist. Humans and animals are presented in abstract settings or lush vegetations, turning the canvas into a reverie on life.
In her portrait paintings, Duchêne Malissin attempts to express the richness of the soul and the fragility of the body. Her canvases pose questions related to childhood, loss of innocence, memory and forgetfulness. The direct gaze of the characters positions the viewer not only as an observer but also as the one being observed, thus creating a strong relationship with the works.
Along with the visual storytelling, the materiality plays an integral part in recording the psychological and imaginative elements of the paintings. Cécile Duchêne Malissin employs different artistic techniques and materials such as, acrylic paint, paper, oil pastels, graphite lead and sometimes sewing, in order to express the delicacy and strangeness of the works.
Cécile Duchêne Malissin graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art in Paris and the Faculty of Arts from the University of Strasbourg. Since 2006 her work has been exhibited internationally in more than thirty (30) exhibitions and International Art Fairs. Selected group and solo exhibitions include Gallery La ligne bleue, Selestat, France (2007 to 2021); Gallery AIDA, Strasburg (2005-2015); Gallery Courant d'Art, Mulhouse, France (2009-2021,2024) ; Gallery L' Entrée des Artistes, Paris (2018, 2019, 2022); Gallery Decorde, Strasbourg (2019-2024); Gallery Au-delà des apparences, Annecy & Strasbourg, France (2021, 2022, 2023); Gallery Hors-Champs, Paris (2022).
Participation in Internation Art Fairs includes: ST'ART, Contemporary Art Fair, Strasburg (2008, 2021, 2022, 2023); ART MONTPELLIER, Mediterranean Contemporary Arts Fair (2021, 2022); Contemporary Art Fair Bodensee, Dornbirn, Austria (2018); Affordable Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden (2019).
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