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BIOGRAPHY
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Mathilde Denis's approach to art making is not unlike Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" -
a deep exploration of doubt, spirit and relationships that unfolds in a brilliant adventure
of consciousness - and in particular, a female consciousness. In this French woman's large-scale
collage works, one is confronted with a journey that is often punctuated with continuous invention
with light, color, surface, and the difficult effort for clarity.
For Denis, the act of composition is somewhat magical, where the materials - boards, bits of paper,
and other ephemera - are recovered and often rescued from other worlds - the street, bookshelves,
the wastepaper basket - and then applied onto canvas, to then be covered up with paint, stripped down,
and recovered, a process she likens to unpeeling the layers of her "self."
Her works are a kind of performance where in her words, she "loses the balance and finds it again...
to strive not to see it... to endanger myself... to lay myself bare."
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2006 |
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Les Retrouvailles (solo). Plaisir-dit-Vin, Bordeaux, France. |
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2005 |
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Raze is Art. Bordeaux, France.
Collage Series. Art Vitam, Miami, FL.
Mathilde Denis: retrospective (solo). Eglise Sainte-Foy de Pujols, France.
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Articles:
Carlos M. Luis, "'Collage Series' una muestra de vitalidad en Art Vitam", El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Jan. 30, 2005.
Franklin Einspruch, "Current Art Shows: Collage Series", Miami New Times, Miami, Jan. 20, 2005. |
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2004 |
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Mathilde Denis, new works (solo). SBI Realty, Miami, FL.
Carré: Artists point of view. Art Vitam, Miami, FL. |
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2003 |
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Sofitel Hôtel (solo). Paris France. |
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2002 |
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Schémas (solo). Barbès, Paris, France.
Playfield (solo). Mickael David, France.
Au Dos de la Baleine (solo). Paris, France.
9ème Salon International du Collage contemporain. Espace Saint-Martin, Paris, France. |
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2001 |
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CityLights Sofa (solo). Paris, France.
A la Vénus (solo). Bordeaux, France.
Les Epicuriales. Bordeaux, France.
Peintramuros. Bordeaux, France.
Galerie Chezma-Schema. Bordeaux, France. |
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Award:
Second prize, "Vivre à Bordeaux", Bordeaux, France. |
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2000 |
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A la Vénus (solo). Bordeaux, France.
ArtObas café (solo). Bordeaux, France.
Galerie Ombre & Lumière. Paris, France. |
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1999 |
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Les Couleurs du Temps (solo). Bordeaux, France.
Union syndicale des médecins de Gironde (solo). Bordeaux, France.
Festival "Où sont les femmes ?". Talence, France.
Galerie Chezma-Schema. Bordeaux, France.
"Watch & Listen to New York". Ch.-Schema, Bordeaux, France. |
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1998 |
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Galerie Chezma-Schema. Bordeaux, France.
Festival Artefemmes. Théâtre Barbey, Bordeaux, France.
ROOt'ARTS's project. Bordeaux, France.
L'Art contemporain. Saint-Cyprien, France.
L'Assiette Musicale. Bordeaux, France.
La Vénus de Brassempouy. Bordeaux, France. |
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1997 |
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Syndicat d'initiative (solo). Pujols, France.
La Librairie Olympique (solo). Bordeaux, France. |
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1996 |
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La Reine Carotte (solo). Bordeaux, France. |
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Award:
First prize of collective exhibition. Camarès, France. |
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1995 |
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L'Architecture Imaginaire. Pujols, France
Les Vraies Folies Bergères. Camarès, France. |
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Award:
First jury's prize. Pujols, France. |
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