Béatrice Casadesus (born 1 January 1942) is a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, and

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

at the

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine The Seine ( , ) is a river in nor ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, France.

Biography

Born Béatrice Probst to actress

Gisèle Casadesus Gisèle Casadesus (14 June 1914 – 24 September 2017) was a French actress, who appeared in numerous theatre and film productions. She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of H ...

and actor Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), Casadesus followed courses with Edmée Larnaudie at the École des Arts Appliqués from 1956 to 1959. From 1960 to 1966, she studied painting and sculpture with

Henri-Georges Adam Henri-Georges Adam (14 January 1904 – 27 August 1967) was a French engraver and non-figurative sculptor of the École de Paris, who was also involved in the creation of numerous monumental tapestries. His work in these three areas is regarded ...

at the

École des Beaux-Arts de Paris The (), formally the (), is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training. The art school, which is part of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is located on two sites: Saint-G ...

, and participated in the Roman theater group of the Sorbonne alongside Jean-Pierre Miquel, , and

Jacques Lacarrière Jacques Lacarrière (; 2 December 1925 – 17 September 2005) was a French writer, born in Limoges. He studied moral philosophy, classical literature, and Hindu philosophy and Hindi literature, literature. Professionally, he was known as a prom ...

. In 1964, she received the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

for sculptors, and stayed in Italy, and with a grant from , she began a collaboration with architects, including

Antoine Stinco Antoine Stinco (9 January 1934 – 14 February 2023) was a French architect who specialized in the construction and renovation of museums and exhibition rooms. Early years Stinco was born in Tunis, Tunisia, and studied at the École nationale ...

. From 1975 to 1977, Casadesus travelled to

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Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

, and

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and started ''Brûlages et Dessins d'ombre'' (until 1995). After the discovery of

Georges Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , ; ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough ...

, she abandoned sculpture for painting, and developed from 1980 and until 1989 the ''Tramaturgies'' inspired by

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspir ...

, and

School of Fontainebleau The School of Fontainbleau () () refers to two periods of artistic production in France during the late French Renaissance centered on the royal Palace of Fontainebleau that were crucial in forming Northern Mannerism, and represent the first majo ...

. From 1984 to 1990, she began the series ''Blancs volants'' and titled after words of the poet

Shitao Shitao or Shi Tao (; other department Yuan Ji (), 1642 – 1707), born into the Ming dynasty imperial clan as Zhu Ruoji (朱若極), was a Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and landscape painter during the early Qing dynasty. Born in the ...

. From 1990 to 2000 she worked on fingerprints and explored the theme of the materiality of the paint on different paper substrates such as

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tarlatan The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. The yarn is processed by knitting or weaving, with color an ...

, and

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. From 1992 to 1994, she directed the art workshop at the

in Paris and was appointed professor of the Art and Architecture Schools. From 1997 to 2001, she produced ''Les Mues'', a series of wrinkled paintings, and ''Peintures sans fin'', large rolls of paintings presented randomly in space.

Recent personal exhibitions

* 1994 ** ''Orients, Dungeon Museum,''

Niort Niort (; Poitevin: ''Niàu''; ; ) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres. The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in the urban area. Geography T ...

; galerie Landon, New York ** ''Publication of Lux by Voix editions''; exposition à cette occasion à la galerie Mohanjeet à Paris ** ''Hostages,'' Ambassade de France à New York, Services culturels * 1995 ** ''Orients,'' galerie Muséum Annex, Hong Kong ** ''Variations Or,'' galerie Romagny, Paris *2002 **''The Gaze and the Trace,'' exposition rétrospective (1975-2001), Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Musée de l'Arsenal de Soissons; Institut Français de Barcelone, Espagne *2011 **''Moults at'' musée de Cahors Henri-Martin

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The Casadesus Family
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Biography

Recent personal exhibitions

See also

References

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