Cecile Miguel: In the Depths of Appearances
One of La Boverie's missions is to help people discover or rediscover Belgian artists. For this spring-summer 2024, it is the work of C茅cile Miguel, an artist and writer from Gilly, that is being honoured.
Through around a hundred works of various kinds (paintings, collages, drawings and personal documents), the exhibition reveals, in chronological order, the powerful and singular work of this artist, who has never made any concessions to the art market, and whose last retrospective was over forty years ago.
C茅cile Miguel was awarded the Prix Paul-Roux de la Jeune Peinture Fran莽aise in 1950 after her first group exhibition alongside Picasso and Mir贸, among others, at the Galerie Nationale in Lucerne. So she was a painter, but today we would prefer the term "visual artist", given the diversity of her formal research: drawings of landscapes and still lifes, brightly coloured gouaches when she lived in Provence, tachism, inlays of objects on wood, oils, collages, figures with huge eyes... You can sense the influence of surrealism, abstract art and art brut in her highly personal work.
With her husband Andr茅 Miguel (author, poet and critic), she also writes poetry and plays. From 1989 onwards, she published "dream diaries", typographed poems and prose with surrealist overtones.
His art is constructed "through the colours and materials of juxtaposed prints, a teeming life where derision and humour mingle... an ensemble with its own plastic evidence, its own rigour".
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One of La Boverie's missions is to help people discover or rediscover Belgian artists. For this spring-summer 2024, it is the work of C茅cile Miguel, an artist and writer from Gilly, that is being honoured.
Through around a hundred works of various kinds (paintings, collages, drawings and personal documents), the exhibition reveals, in chronological order, the powerful and singular work of this artist, who has never made any concessions to the art market, and whose last retrospective was over forty years ago.
C茅cile Miguel was awarded the Prix Paul-Roux de la Jeune Peinture Fran莽aise in 1950 after her first group exhibition alongside Picasso and Mir贸, among others, at the Galerie Nationale in Lucerne. So she was a painter, but today we would prefer the term "visual artist", given the diversity of her formal research: drawings of landscapes and still lifes, brightly coloured gouaches when she lived in Provence, tachism, inlays of objects on wood, oils, collages, figures with huge eyes... You can sense the influence of surrealism, abstract art and art brut in her highly personal work.
With her husband Andr茅 Miguel (author, poet and critic), she also writes poetry and plays. From 1989 onwards, she published "dream diaries", typographed poems and prose with surrealist overtones.
His art is constructed "through the colours and materials of juxtaposed prints, a teeming life where derision and humour mingle... an ensemble with its own plastic evidence, its own rigour".
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