La jeune femme et la mer, 2022

Catherine Meurisse   Emerging artists

Catherine Meurisse was born in 1980. After a course in modern literature, she studied at the Estienne school then at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Designer, author, caricaturist, reporter and illustrator of albums for young people, Catherine Meurisse is a prolix artist. Honing her gaze and her style for fifteen years in numerous press titles ('Le Monde', 'Libération', 'Les Échos', 'L'Obs'...) and more particularly in 'Charlie Hebdo', she directed comics where the spirit of seriousness has no place. After “Mes Hommes de lettres", “Le Pont des arts" (Sarbacane), “Moderne Olympia" (Futuropolis) and “Droles de femmes" (Dargaud, with Julie Birmant), in 2016 she published “La Légèreté", a moving story. of her return to life, to drawing and to memory, after the attack on 'Charlie Hebdo' from which she escaped. After the cheeky "Scènes de la vie hormonale" appears "Les Grands Espaces" (Dargaud), an evocation of his childhood in the countryside, where tasty memories and aesthetic and political awareness of the rural landscape mix. In 2019, she published “Delacroix", a very personal graphic adaptation of the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas, great friend of the painter Eugène Delacroix. Her new album, “The Young Woman and the Sea" questions the place of Man in nature and the use of art to capture disappearing landscapes. In 2020, the year when a major retrospective was dedicated to her at the BPI of the Center Pompidou, Catherine Meurisse became the first comic book author to be a member of the Academy of Fine Arts.