Cécile Derez

The Painting-Happiness of Derez "Art protects us from the truth that kills" Nietzsche. Born in 1953, graduated from ENSAD (National School of Decorative Arts, Villa Arson, Nice, France) - specializing in architecture and communication, Cécile DEREZ has exhibited in France and abroad since 1977. Professional artist since 1977. Colorist of nature, painter of imagination and emotion, his solidly constructed canvases invite to travel in space and time through collages. A new figuration with a particular path turned towards a constructivist desire of cubist origin and a sensory expressionism fertile in poetry, rich in materials, texture, roundness and colors which addresses both characters and “still” lifes, so badly named, and imaginary landscapes à la Paul KLEE. Preoccupation with matter, contrast between shadow and light In the tradition dear to the Provençal Fauves. The Eye wanders, associates, dreams and then escapes to keep only the Essential in a revised and corrected reality, But oh so overwhelming in truth. The part of Chance "Suddenly and as if by game" Stéphane Mallarmé Playing with time, by all means and on all tables with the chance of collages, "little pieces of paper torn off" from ancient or modern civilizations. .. To play, to bring together disparate elements, to recover, to divert and to take the side road to generate a coherence, to follow the fleeting moment… To play, to play and to play again. "It is the children who are right," said PICASSO. Poetry You said Poetry, yes, the one that we look for in many places and that we almost always find there or we least expect it ... A PREVERT inventory full of consistency and happiness. The Paradise of Colors Color is a sacred good ... "RIMBAUD is the man who heard the colors of the spectrum" says ALECHINSKY The artists who impressed me the most are those who worked before the era of reason, before let foolishness not begin with perspective: The artists of the Middle Ages, The Italian Primitives, Indian Paintings, Persian miniatures, Black Africa. Prehistoric, Amerindian and Maori cave paintings, of course… Because they participate in life events, to come or already experienced; They are on the verge of acts of magic. They don't lie. They are true. Art is a continuity: it goes forward but always looking to the past. I like things when they're falling into place, and they aren't final. I prefer civilizations when they are at their beginnings and not at their peak. I like art brut. I love Picasso, who has always known how to both renew himself and draw from the cradle of ancient civilizations. If we go towards the arts from distant cultures or towards the original, the native, the beginnings, it is not for the picturesque and the change of scenery but it is with the obscure awareness of a lack, the desire to meet the fundamental. I like the smile of others. I love my kids who taught me to stay upright. The rigor of the words means that we cannot explain everything. Painting is an enterprise of freedom: Take pleasure in order to give it to the Other and leave him free in his imagination She is there to give emotion to the Other As DELACROIX says so well “Apart from pleasure to get along praised, there is the happiness of addressing all souls capable of understanding yours and this is how all souls meet in your painting ”. So the emotional stream passes. Cécile DEREZ.