Bouddha jaune /Le flamand rose (recto/verso), 2018

Catherine Bessin  

Deeply sincere, Catherine Bessin paints and draws on and with what comes her way: paper bags, washing station tokens, driftwood, used rice bags, newspapers, packaging, everything seems predestined to become the element of an artwork. “I am a path,” she said. “And an object that presents itself to me is like a sign that will reveal its true meaning. Objects call to me…

"Kneaded with syncretic symbolism with a very personal logic, his drawings and paintings oscillate between naive art and art brut, bathed in a cosmogony governed by great figures of the 20th century (Marylin Monroe, Federico Garcia Llorca), catastrophes of all kinds and various nightmarish facts (the Omar Raddad affair, the sinking of the Titanic, the massacre of October 17, 1961, the collective suicides of the Solar Temple) and form a whole revealing "the hidden meaning of events."
Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper, this humanist who says "cannot stand injustice", believes in "the universality of art", and defines her work in a total way: "for me a true artist must be capable to create from everything he finds and makes his own… "Between two puffs, she admits to admiring pell-mell Rimbaud, Molière, Modigliani, Victor Hugo, Van Gogh and admits to pursuing a form of" quest for the truth, of absolute. "