Publications & Reviews
Artiste peintre professionnelle depuis 1998
From Artist Monographs to Critical Perspectives in the Art Press
«Throughout my artistic journey, an increasing number of publications have reflected and engaged with my work. I have chosen to highlight a selection of these references here.
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01 —ARTICLES AND PERSPECTIVES FROM THE ART PRESS
As early as 2005, the specialist art magazine Artension devoted an article to my work. Written by Thierry Sznytka, this text was among the first critical perspectives on my career, and I have chosen to share it here…
Thierry Sznytka Art Critic Artension — July 31, 2005
A contributor to several specialist art magazines, including Artension, L’Univers des Arts and Arts Actualités Magazine, Thierry Sznytka has written numerous articles on artists and their pictorial approaches.
« Driven by her creative impulses, the artist brings life to her subjects through an alchemy of colour and texture that reveals her passionate nature. Without ever turning away from reality, Corinne Vilcaz transforms her subjects through a suggestive visual language, powerfully capturing the vibrant intensities that surround people and objects — those elusive qualities that reason cannot grasp, but which her brush succeeds in capturing !»
02 —Monographic Publications
In Corinne Vilcaz ou Le Crédo des couleurs (2012), my first artist’s book, Frédéric-Charles Baitinger offers an in-depth analysis of my painting, exploring in particular the relationship between abstraction and figuration, the treatment of texture and the vibrations of colour. His text accompanies this monograph and forms one of its key critical contributions.
Corinne Vilcaz — 2012
Lelivredart Editions
ISBN: 978-2-35532-139-9
Printed for Éditions Le Livre d’Art in July 2012.
Critique de Frédéric-Charles Baitinger
Frédéric-Charles Baitinger He holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. An art critic and editor, he has contributed to several publications, including Artension, Art Absolument and Graffiti Art Magazine. He is the author of essays and books on contemporary art, including Belles de murs (Critères Éditions). He has also published critical essays on artists such as Marc Chagall, Fred Sandback, Liam Gillick and Baptiste Debombourg.
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« Through its backgrounds and the flowing currents of colour that shape them, this work belongs, on the one hand, to the movement of Lyrical Abstraction (…), while on the other, it finds its place, with a very particular grace, in the secular world of figuration.»
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« (…) Corinne Vilcaz’s work stands to abstract painting as the scenes of the Annunciation stood to Renaissance perspective painting: an attempt to give form, through the very vibrations of matter, (…) to that fragile, (…) unnameable instant when pure white — the quintessence — emerges from the stammerings of a material transformed into lyricism.»
03 — 25 years of creation
Published in 2023 by Éditions Lelivredart, this collector’s edition presents my painting as it has evolved over twenty-five years of artistic creation. It is not a retrospective of my career, but rather a publication that reveals the pictorial expression to which these years of research and creative exploration have led me.
The book features a foreword by Francis Cabrel.
Collector's Edition – 25 Years of Artistic Creation — 2023
Corinne Vilcaz — 25 Years of Artistic Creation
Lelivredart Editions
2023
ISBN: 978-2-35532-414-7
Printed for Éditions Lelivredart in May 2023.
Francis Cabrel Singer-Songwriter
A native of the Lot-et-Garonne region, Francis Cabrel maintains a deep connection with this land, shaped by its landscapes, nature and memories. Originally from the same region, I share with him this attachment to a familiar landscape, to its trees and the natural world, whose presence accompanies and inspires us.
Our beautiful land has inspired two different forms of expression, yet a shared sensitivity to the beauty of the living world, to its trees, their silence and their rustling — and led him to grace this book with a beautiful foreword written in his own hand.
Here are a few words from it :
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« (…) A gentle breeze drifts through your Provençal trees and brushes our faces in a (remarkable) movement, barely suggested. Not a single flaw. A truly beautiful work!»
