Cartherine Gontcharoff

Catherine Gontcharoff was sensitized very early on to the observation of what surrounds her by her father and her grandfather, endowed with a certain gift in terms of artistic expression through drawing and painting. In their company, she apprehends the art of observing and reproducing the perspectives of the world that is opening up ... She will express herself first through charcoal and ink and then curious to use other means of expression she will practice oil painting and acrylic while attending for some time the school nicely called: Fine Arts. In the 90s, while working in the advertising industry, she joined two groups of artists who brought her horizons of exchange, but from which she moved away in favor of her independence and her freedom of movement. interpretation. Today, “digital tools” have become his means of choice. A very great creative intensity marks his photographs. We can guess a sensitivity for what appeals to the characteristics and impulses of individuals. By relying on the force of black and white, sometimes invested with red, the scenes are revealed by triggering details so that we can in turn appropriate a story titillated by the imagination (the transfer of the photographs to metal accentuates this approach). This is how when the artist works on the vision of industrial wasteland, there is an almost dreamlike journey in which an instant testimony reappears revealing the imprint of human wills and adventures. A shrewd eye that allows you to discover what you don't necessarily see ...