"Freaks" by Cécile Guicheteau

Features:

• Mixed media on cardboard
• Dimensions: 70 x 100 cm
• 2013

The artwork:

This work was created in 2013. We all change naturally, feelings or the way you experience them change, the way you express yourself takes its own course But every work belongs to a specific moment of the artist who created its, like tangible, visible and perceptible DNA. Some works explain the moment that gave rise to their creation but this process is like crying or laughing, no one would imagine asking how tears come out, or why sounds are emitted while laughing. It is the emotion that the viewer has, which is part of the moment and the completion of the work.

The artist:

Cécile Guicheteau, 1974 Cholet (FR), is a contemporary artist. After graduating in art from the Pivaut institute in Nantes, for years she has worked in Paris as a decorator for television and collaborated with numerous galleries. In 2008 she published "Tortueuse Fantasy", with Michel Archimbaud, author of the last interviews with Francis Bacon. She has carried out several exhibitions abroad: Italy, USA, Canada, Japan and the Grand Palais in Paris. In 2016 she completed a permanent exhibition at the Di Tucheng Museum in China after spending 45 days there for an artistic residence. In 2017/2018 she exhibited at the Torre dos Cielos gallery in Japan and later won the UNESCO Open-Air Museum project (2019) in Praiano, on the Amalfi Coast. Her works are present in museums and private collections.

She says about herself: I don't try to be a witness of my time, I don't try to comment on anything, the universe that I express is part of my inner world, stuff of writing or legends. All this comes through me and ends up on the canvas together with my experiences. For some time now I have been trying to forget what I have learned in such a way as to let my childish hand guide my work.