Discover the contemporary work of Catherine NICOLAS

1980-2024
Initially passionate about the world of children, I created textile patterns, illustrations, books and worked on them. the design of objects and toys.

Then, dreamlike journeys were constructed: puzzles based on the duality of life. of humans, the movement of identification with others and the distinction in relation to others. these … who take them to the construction of the self.

Women's stories... of birth and life, of absence and pain, of ambivalence and enigma, of nest and knot, of death and re-birth.

Each human being has a masculine and feminine part in different proportions, we can find this part in a part of the body: head, stomach, hand... because we all carry within us the germ of the other. One cannot be conceived without the other.

It is a constant search for the other to be reborn, thanks to the other: the lost or forgotten double, so sought after by each individual.
The fraternal twins were firstly a pretext for research on a combination of multiple hybrid cells metamorphosing and searching for each other.
The double becoming the mirror of itself, individual, but resembling; the other.

With very bare textile sculptures, approaching a fetal vision, I designed characters / 2009, 2010, 2011.

Between 1983 and 1987, large works on paper: frescoes describe the beginning of torn hystories: perceptions of intimate worlds behind the mirror, then plant envelopes and mineral cells with moving surfaces that breathe.

Explorations and discoveries / 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
The ambiguity will develop and secrets will hide reality.
Each element is captured and gives an obvious fragment which allows us to better understand bicephalic identities, the role of plants, totems and tribes.

This information leads towards the revelation of the instructions for use of the hystories, aided by installations: invasion, silent molting, rapid molting. 4 heads, alone without molting and finally the voluntary confinement of the physallis.

My medium is vibration... like games of dominoes, with the diversity materials gleaned from each of my many journeys, which are diverted from their own uses.
It's a process of assembling and cutting, grafting, cuttings, like a gardener. A sort of intimate mythology between true and false.

Catherine Nicolas, artist.
Born in 1957, lives and works in the Paris region.

STUDY AND DIPLOMAS

Interior architect, Ecole BOULLE / Paris.
School diploma + BTS interior architecture and
design.

EXHIBITIONS
1980 to 1981: Architecture agency (94).
1982 and 1983: Municipal gallery / Antony (92).
1984 and 1986: Salon de Montrouge (92).
1986: Plastic Arts Center / Choisy-le-Roi (94).

WORKS
1989 to 1991: Textile creations / haute couture, ready-to-wear.
1985 to 2002: Communication agencies +
office styles.
1994 to 1998: Design-deco
1998 to 2008: Children’s press
1994 to 2006: Postcards
1994 to 2008: Competition / haute-couture.
1998 to 2008: Toys and games.
1993 to 2008: Book and CD editions.
2008 - 2009: Paintings, sculptures, installations in
space, poems, photographs, videos, engravings,
artist's books, chests and boxes.
2010 to 2011: short film.
2013 to 2017: Works on papers, volumes installations,
paintings.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS / 2009:
- Exhibition of artists' books at the Museum of
Verderonne (60).
- Exposure to the Lodge / « His eye is crying but, his
mouth laughs », Paris (75001).
- Battery Quay, « Biennial Artists’ Books see
8 » Arras (62).

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS / 2009:
- Open days of Montreuil artists’ studios
(93).

FAIRS / 2009:
- PAGE / with the Michèle BROUTTA gallery, books
of artists / Espace Charenton (75012).

READING / 2010:
- « The spring of the poets at Saché and Vaugarni » (37) /
Women's Colors in 2010.

REVIEWS AND PRESENTATIONS / 2009:
- Revue Passages d’Encres, n°36-37 / Oct-Nov 2099 /
“ Where did you leave? », poem, installation.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS / 2010:
- SINGUL’ART Gallery / « Under the stars » / Lyon
(69).
- Open days of artists' studios of
MONTREUIL (93) / short film.
- Espace Comme Vous Emoi / Montreuil (93).
- SINGUL’ART Gallery / « The Christmas boat » /
Exhibition of 6 artists from the collective / Lyon (69).
ARTIST RESIDENCE / 2011:
HMC, BUDAPEST / Hungary.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS / 2011:
- SINGUL’ART Gallery PRAZ-sur-ARLY (74).
- Château de Serans / ECOUCHE (61).
- Exhibition of the 6 artists in residence / HMC,
Inc and Ferenkvarosi / àgrave; the PinceGallery IX /
BUDAPEST, Hungary.
- Library thoughts » / Raday Könyveshaz and Gallery
from BUDAPEST / artists’ books / Hungary.
- House of Arts / « 5 artists discover » /
ANTONY (92).

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS / 2011:
- As part of the 4th Biennale Hors les Normes /
LYON (69) / Espace La Passerelle.
- Space like you Emoi / Open days of
Artists Workshops / MONTREUIL (93).

PERSONAL EXHIBITION / 2014:
- Librairie de la Halle St Pierre / Paris (75018).

PERSONAL EXHIBITION / 2017:
- As part of the 7th Biennale Hors Normes /
LYON (69008) / Personal exhibition /
Bachut Media Library / 09/27 to 10/14/17.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION / 2017:
- PARISARTISTES / / Town Hall 8th + Bastille Design
Center / PARIS (75008 and 75011) / 06, 07 and 08.10.17 /
Collective exhibitions /
www.parisartistes.com/catherine-nicolas

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION / 2018:
-Gallery Workshops Artists from Belleville / PARIS
(75020) / 18 to 28.01.18 / Exhibition "Mue à agrave; 4 heads » /
Installations / Elizabeth LINCOT, Agathe BRAHAMIFERRON,
Julia HAUMONT and Catherine NICOLAS.
- ARTIST RESIDENCE in Paris BUDAPEST / July
2021 / Cave Hystories Silver Temple and
Budapest.
- ARTIST RESIDENCE in Sri Lanka in the
Silver Temple Buddhist Temple / February 21 to 17
March 2024.
- PROJECTS / in 2024-2025:
Development of a book on my Hystories / the
lady to the unicorn, the texts, reworked engravings,
mixed media / drawings + paintings, photos and
poems:
- ANTONY town hall / 92160
- Verderonne Artistic Center for books
of artists by Caroline Corre (60)
- Contemporary Art Space of Fresnes (94)