Fuoco 🔥, 2022
Pastel drawing on pastel card
Signed "AC" lower right
30 x 40 cm (artwork)/ 40 x 50 cm (with frame)

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Biography 👩‍🎨🎨:

Parisian artist specialized in the art of pastel, Atelier Cléophée builds her works as so many visions that she imagines preparatory to church stained glass or haute couture fabrics and interior decoration. Her work is at the crossroads of abstraction and figuration.

Through the use of this powder of pigments which barely sticks to paper and yet which, better than any other pictorial substance, reveals the most subtle shades of tone, Atelier Cléophée sets up universes of shapes and colors which have their source in the primordial energy of matter. References to the four elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire) are at the heart of her chromatic and graphic research (see her works "Acqua", "Fuoco", "Golden Mountains » for instance).

Her keyboard of pastels allows her to compose her patterns, her spaces, her architectures of pure colors, her games of superposition, like so many attempts at capturing light. Atelier Cléophée summons in her work as many iconographies and snapshots collected during of her travels - Italy taking center stage - and her studies in art history, which have taken her from the Villa Medici in Rome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York via the Centre Pompidou and French high jewelry Maisons. The thousands of works of art and creations discovered over the years constitute so many internalized images that form a collection from which she likes to draw.