Petits instants de la vie quotidienne de nos insectes
Exhibition-Residency in Parc St Léger
Centre 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 tree trunks.
Brief moments in the daily life of our insects | Petits instants de la vie quotidienne de nos insectes. These insects are anthropological, not entomological. They are figurative, representing a time-based reality in their visible moments: reproduction, defence, combat, moulting. Cécile Pitois’s bestiary is the expression of this marking of time, and of an awareness of the ephemeral at a human level. Because they are bound to change, her works express the dialectic between the mediums used in the history of art, the history of the materials used by the artist and the length of time the pieces are exhibited.
Public and private commissions : Parc St Léger, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Pougues-les-Eaux (58) 1999 | Private Collection Bruno Saulay and Christilla Roze – L’Eglise – Le Sentier (37) 1999 | Collection du Parc de la Pérraudière, St Cyr-sur-Loire (37) 2000 | Private Collection Margaret and Peter Higginson – Princes Rise – Lewisham – London 1997
