Michèle Coudert

After her studies at ENSAA Duperré, Michèle Coudert worked for fashion, decoration, show business. These professional experiences enrich the work that she builds in parallel around the stylized figure, through research into materials, color and the integration of light. His main sources of inspiration are constructivism, African art, Gaudi ...

In these stylized and hybrid figures, attention converges towards the eye, in an exchange of glances, and towards the mouth which invites dialogue. The median axis of the nose, the line of the eyes, the arabesques which end the heads like horns or crowns, refer to a transformed reality. These faces seek to create a link between the imagination of the artist and that of the viewer. Geometric shapes come together in fragmented volumes that create planes and reliefs. The mixture of materials, sometimes a light source, recomposes the figure in a mosaic of effects and colors, between abstraction and figuration. The face is one of the first contacts with the other. It expresses emotions, tells a story, true or false. These singular figures are visual tales that everyone can make their own.