Cécile Duchêne Malissin

She is a french artist, born in Paris (France). She currently lives and works in Montargis, near Paris.

Both realistic and dreamlike, Cécile Duchêne Malissin’s painting implies some introspection. Characters or animals are shown in abstract settings or lush vegetation. Her works exude a powerful attraction and conveys reverie. They are bushy, free, imaginative compositions and a poetic and singular universe.

Her portraits express a meditative abandonment and the richness of an inner life. Childhood, is also tackled and evokes the loss of innocence as well as facing the brutality of the world. The viewer is caught by the serious and mysterious gaze of her characters: who observes who, in this disturbing face-to-face?

Relations to nature, to oneself and to others are questioned here. Working on paper or canvas, mixing different techniques (acrylic paint, oil pastels, graphite lead, collage and sometimes sewing...), the works thus created carry in them both a delicacy but also a certain strangeness. The relationship to the body and its fragility are evoked by transparencies which is conferred by a subtle game of collages mixed with acrylic. Memory, forgetfulness, transience of existence are suggested.

• Graduated from Superior School Arts Appliqués O. de Serres (Paris, FRANCE) - Plasticien
• Graduated from Facultly of Arts (Strasbourg, FRANCE)

• Castle of Vieux Robin (Bégadan, FRANCE) - 2006
• Espace DELTA (Paris, FRANCE) - 2007
• Castle of Rohan (Saverne, FRANCE) - 2007
• Maison de l’Alsace (Paris, FRANCE) - 2007
• Contemporary Art Space Wolm'Art (FRANCE) - 2007 - 2008
• Exhibition for the inauguration of the Collège Doctoral Européen (Strasbourg, FRANCE) - 2008
• Contemporary Art Fair : ST’ART (Strasbourg, FRANCE) - 2008
• Gallery Esprit d'Artiste (Honfleur, FRANCE) - 2010 - 2011
• Gallery Bex (Paris, FRANCE) - 2011 - 2012
• Gedok karlsruhe (GERMANY) - 2011
• Galerie Talbot (Montpellier and St Martin de Londres, FRANCE) - 2013
• Gallery AIDA (Strasbourg, FRANCE) - Every year since 2000 to 2015
• Strasbourg's cathedral (FRANCE) : for the millennium of the foundations of the Strasbourg's cathedral - 2015
• Gallery La ligne bleue (Selestat, FRANCE) - Every year from 2007 to 2021
• Gallery Courant d’Art (Mulhouse, FRANCE) - Every year from 2009 to 2019
• Gallery In arte veritas.fr (Clisson, FRANCE) - 2014 - 2015
• Contemporary Art Fair Bodensee (Dornbirn, AUSTRIA) - 2018
• Council of Europe (Strasbourg, FRANCE) - 2018
• Gallery L'Entrée des Artistes (Paris, FRANCE) 2018
• Gallery Courant d’Art (Mulhouse, FRANCE) 2019
• Affordable Art Fair Stockholm, SWEDEN - 2019
• Gal...