Cécile Pitois

Where has the North Pole Gone ?

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Where has the North Pole Gone ? Series of sculptures, collages, drawings, silkscreen prints, maps and other media – 2021-2023 Techniques and Materials : Sculptures  – glazed porcelain / extruded polystyrene, plaster, spray paint, varnish + PlexiglasCollages – music paper, ink, cut-out mirror, paperDrawings – in sketchbooksSilkscreen prints – ink on paper or wood Where […]

Intuition(s)

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Intuition(s) Yves Hoffmann Gallery, Solo show, Paris – 2002Chapelle Saint Jacques, Solo show, St Gaudens – 2002Lycée Agricole, Permanent Commission, Aux Arts Lycéens program, Fondettes – 2003Galerie de l’ancien collège, Poussières et partitions Duo show with Susan Jennings, Châtellerault – 2005 Banque Populaire, Permanent Commission, Tours – 2012 Site-specific painting Colored gloss varnish on wall […]

Opening 1H30

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Opening 1h30 Exhibition at the École des Beaux-Arts, Tours – 1999 Installation of 1,600 pink candlewax snails with wick.Size: 3 x 16 m on the floorDuration: 1h30 for each snail Opening | Vernissage 1H30  1h30 Texte Marie Audoux Artworks

Un Temps pour Tous

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Un Temps pour Tous La Box Gallery, ENSA, Bourges / Solo exhibition – 1999Whitechapel Gallery, London, U.K. / Group show: Open, 1996 Installation of twenty-one colored, candle wax + wick, penguins. Life-size sculptures, all lit on opening day. Exhibition visible 24 hours a day from outside the gallery through picture windows. Duration: 648 hours / […]

Territoire(s)

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Territoire(s) Chapelle Saint-Jacques, St Gaudens / Solo Show – 2002ICA Gallery, London, U.K. – April Session invitation – 1997 Installation of 108 life-size pigeons in wax + wick, pigments, 100 m2 of pink carpet on the floor. Metal structures: 1.20 to 1.80 m x 12 m. Duration: 7 weeks. On the evening of the opening, […]

Petits instants de la vie quotidienne de nos insectes

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Petits instants de la vie quotidienne de nos insectes Exhibition-Residency in Parc St LégerCentre d’Art, Pougues-les-Eaux – 1999 Technique: Tree treatment, gesso protection, acrylic paint + varnish and the passage of time.Butterflies, caterpillars, praying mantises, dragonflies and other species, identified at the exhibition site, are the subject of the life-size paintings painted directly on the […]

Window Tatoo

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Window Tatoo Yves Hoffmann Gallery, Paris – Solo show – 2002Private Collections Technique : Engraved or sandblasted tattoos on glass. Choice of twenty-one shapes.Shapes extracted from the series of preparatory drawings, Rencontre(s) and the Intuition(s) murals. The Kamasutra, from the Sanskrit कामसूत्र Kāmasūtra, composed of काम Kama, “desire” and सूत्र sutra, “aphorism”, in other words, […]

Regarde

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Regarde La Box, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art gallery, Bourges,  Solo show – 1999 Courant d’art, Deauville – Group show – 1998 Installation consisting of a 21-minute soundtrack played through eight individual headphones around a round table with seats.Title is written in adhesive lettering on the wall. This work deals with meaning and sound in language. […]

Projection(s)

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Projection(s) Parc St Léger, Residency and Exhibition Art Center, Pougues-les-Eaux – 1999 (…) “By tilting the paintings like a mirror resting on the floor, they sit like a sculpture, creating a more physical relationship. And the use of a flat colour for the background of the paintings creates a kind of non-place. It creates a […]

Portraits Personnalisés

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Portraits Personnalisés & Paysages Particularisés Crow Gallery, Tewkesbury, U.K. – 1997Artotheque of the l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts du Mans – 1997European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium – 1996In-Ex, La Pléïade, La Riche – 1993 Series of Photographs – 1991-1993Black and white prints + immersion and removal with cow dung, earth, grass, etc. Some prints mounted on wood.Various […]