Opening viewing Saturday 11th May, 18h-20h
Exhibition Sunday 12th May - Friday 24th May, 15h-18h
In May 2019 there will be an exhibition of works from two artists - Evelyne Dominault and Jacqueline Esteves de Cooman.
Click on the names below to find out more.
'A childhood spent on the boats taught me freedom ... In my adolescence I was able to overcome rebellion by taking the paths of poetry ... In 1994, I discovered Amerindian culture and I also launched a creative wave ... as I made theatre costumes, using all the textiles and materials within my reach to make my first shields.
Self taught, my experience is forged by limitless tests, renewed every day. I do not hesitate to wander through painting, engraving or sculpture.
From the start I have participated in many exhibitions (national and international) where I have won prizes and the chance to be artist in residence on the island of Bendor.
I begin a piece by marking the subject with my traces, marks of time, because that is what we are doing, marking ourselves with traces of our passage, like the wrinkles around our eyes due to laughter or deeper wounds that are not visible.
Totally instinctive, my work seems to me to be a quest for my being: if I erase my education, my culture, all that has been instilled in me ... who am I? Who am I really?
I do not seek to paint, it is an impulse that is imposed and must be satisfied .. a life drive.’
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS: first dating from 1996 in Montpellier ...
2013 - Chapel Gimer- CARCASSONNE - GALLERY OF THE ARTS – TREBES - ARTISTS TO FOLLOW - Espace Gibert, LEZIGNAN
2012 - SPACE SAINT CYPRIEN -TOULOUSE - MAISON DES ARTS-BAGES
2011 - SAINT HILAIRE- COLLIOURE - CARCASSONNE
2010 - RESONANS Gallery - BELGIUM
2010 - Gallery THE HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT - CARCASSONNE
2009 - CARCASSONNE - DOMINICAN CHAPEL
2008 - 2010 - CLOS ST.HILAIRE -SAINT HILAIRE
2004 - GALLERY A - CARCASSONNE
PRIZES:
2015: toques and bell towers, SIEUR D'ARQUES, LIMOUX: 1st prize
2004: MAGIE: 3rd prize
2004: CASTELNAUDARY: Gold Medal of the Salon
2004: TREBES: Silver Medal
2003: SOREZE: ABBEY Award
2003: CASTELNAUDARY: President of the Salon Award
2003: TREBES: Silver Medal
2002: TREBES: President of the Salon Award
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"My intention is not to impose finite forms, but to be suggestive, to appeal to personal evocations, giving a universal vision and dimension to the work."
The discovery of contemporary art in Ostend, in January 1997, with the exhibition of the five great Belgian painters: ENSOR, MAGRITTE, DELVAUX, PERMEKE, SPILLIAERT, was a real emotional shock for me - I immediately decided to paint without any prior knowledge. I then began a journey with passion, so far intact, which translates into emotion, energy, and imagination
Self-taught painter
75 exhibitions in 20 years in the south of France.
Exhibitions in Belgium and Portugal.
Exhibition every year for COULEUR INTERNATIONALE de FANJEAUX.
Workshop-gallery in CARCASSONNE from 2004 to 2017.
PRIZES
2004 - October: MAGIE: 2nd Prize - Painting
2004 - March: TREBES Exhibition: Bronze Medal Contemporary Art
2003 - July: AUSSON (31) - Contemporary Art Award
2003 - May: CASTELNAUDARY Exhibition: General Council Prize
2002 - March: TREBES Exhibition: First Prize of the City
Permanent exhibition: Victoria Galerie, Av. Victoria, BIARRITZ
On-line gallery:
http://www.saatchiart.com/estevesdecooman/
20th and 21st century painters, catalogue of the MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, CARCASONNE.
Les Cartals, 11250 - MONTCLAR