Viviane CANGELONI
Of French origin, Viviane Cangeloni was born in 1949. She lives in Belgium.
She was introduced to the visual arts in London and then moved to Brussels where she continued her training in painting at the National School of Visual Arts in La Cambre. An artistic stay in New York and several phases of pictorial work in Germany mark his plastic research.
Its central theme is Man, microcosm in the universe, its approach is humanist. She already has several collective and individual exhibitions to her credit (Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden). She was recently selected among the "Six Winners, Discovery Prize" 1999 and won the Janus Prize in Brussels.
"I have long observed the body and the face from the reality of the model. My approach was centered on the expression of gesture, movement, interiority. The years 1996 - 1997 mark a turning point, a discovery of what I really want to translate: to apprehend the human being via the existential questions that challenge him in his quest: life, death, fundamental emotions, desire, the myths that line our memories, the relationship to nature, to the cosmos... From now on, I move away from the model itself to let interior images arise by combining painting, photography, drawing, writing. Nature and its mythological substrate occupy a dominating place there."
My favorite artists, past and present, are those who favor a global approach to man. Those whose conceptual dimension does not exclude the emotional and physical plane. And whose works add to our view of the world as "eyes upon eyes themselves, eyes to look as they look". (Gracian)
Beyond the artists who constitute my spiritual family; beyond the private meetings, some of which were a real initiation to another way of looking at the world; beyond my own research in the fields of the symbolic universe and the quest for identity, three outstanding teachings have marked my artistic journey.
