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I paint and I create to express and show my way of feeling, of perceiving, of dreaming and of envisioning the world and its actors. I open the drawers of my conscious and unconscious universe, imaginary and secret, to draw images, music, memories of thousands of observations gathered and accumulations of little forgotten things, and combine them in a dynamic fusion. I walk without thinking too much between a certain material and a future form to create a locality between the lines of time, convert it into space and break down borders. I invent passages to cross, limits to transgress, barriers to bypass in order to crack, to shake, to cross the wall of meaning. I shake up the meaning of words to reach the moment when the artist's reality meets the imagination of another look. My canvas then becomes a space of colors, light, materials, signs, and offers itself to multiple interpretations. Chautagnat. To enter the pictorial universe of Chautagnat, one must indulge in the world of abstraction nourished by dreams and imagination. However, we are not in abstract art because the artist shows while concealing through the play of the hidden / shown / hidden where the invisible becomes visible. These multiple things which appear and disappear are part of the secret memory which makes the unconscious emerge towards consciousness. By observing his works, we discover a world populated by creatures with multiple appearances. These emerge from matter and color by echoing and resonating. The work of this artist who associates color, material, engraving, gives a great expressive force to her paintings. The mysterious signs that punctuate her painting are stories, sometimes of the most intimate, which guide her because she is fascinated by all the imprints left by men in the history of humanity. Chautagnat brings forth from the pictorial material the experiences and sensations left in the universal memory. His painting, all in music and strength and invites to travel, dream, contemplation. Suzanne Docteur Mouchet, art historian in catalog 2010 Chautagnat's painting, with extraordinary vitality, worked in detail like a miniaturist, demonstrates a perfect mastery of the medium whose potentialities are pushed to the maximum: taking into account the format the support, the eloquence of the color, the consistency of the material, the organization of the space. For her, appropriating forms means suspending their meaning on an interrogation borrowed from the world of the imagination, myth, legends which are inexhaustible sources of reverie, inner adventure, sensitive and poetic questioning. In his large abstract compositions, a place of meditation on the post-chaos, the artist invents fabulous worlds with sublime tones to lead us towards dreams of intimacy which evoke an essential secret that we feel Suzanne Docteur Mouchet, art historian in catalog 2009.
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I paint and I create to express and show my way of feeling, of perceiving, of dreaming and of envisioning the world and its actors. I open the drawers of my conscious and unconscious universe, imaginary and secret, to draw images, music, memories of thousands of observations gathered and accumulations of little forgotten things, and combine them in a dynamic fusion. I walk without thinking too much between a certain material and a future form to create a locality between the lines of time, convert it into space and break down borders. I invent passages to cross, limits to transgress, barriers to bypass in order to crack, to shake, to cross the wall of meaning. I shake up the meaning of words to reach the moment when the artist's reality meets the imagination of another look. My canvas then becomes a space of colors, light, materials, signs, and offers itself to multiple interpretations. Chautagnat. To enter the pictorial universe of Chautagnat, one must indulge in the world of abstraction nourished by dreams and imagination. However, we are not in abstract art because the artist shows while concealing through the play of the hidden / shown / hidden where the invisible becomes visible. These multiple things which appear and disappear are part of the secret memory which makes the unconscious emerge towards consciousness. By observing his works, we discover a world populated by creatures with multiple appearances. These emerge from matter and color by echoing and resonating. The work of this artist who associates color, material, engraving, gives a great expressive force to her paintings. The mysterious signs that punctuate her painting are stories, sometimes of the most intimate, which guide her because she is fascinated by all the imprints left by men in the history of humanity. Chautagnat brings forth from the pictorial material the experiences and sensations left in the universal memory. His painting, all in music and strength and invites to travel, dream, contemplation. Suzanne Docteur Mouchet, art historian in catalog 2010 Chautagnat's painting, with extraordinary vitality, worked in detail like a miniaturist, demonstrates a perfect mastery of the medium whose potentialities are pushed to the maximum: taking into account the format the support, the eloquence of the color, the consistency of the material, the organization of the space. For her, appropriating forms means suspending their meaning on an interrogation borrowed from the world of the imagination, myth, legends which are inexhaustible sources of reverie, inner adventure, sensitive and poetic questioning. In his large abstract compositions, a place of meditation on the post-chaos, the artist invents fabulous worlds with sublime tones to lead us towards dreams of intimacy which evoke an essential secret that we feel Suzanne Docteur Mouchet, art historian in catalog 2009.

When was Chautagnat born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1953