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Myriam Baudin
Black film inspired
Myriam Baudin was born in Senlis on October 22, 1968.
She joined the artists referenced Maecene Arts in 2019.
"At the end of the 80s, I was introduced to the various techniques of artistic expression at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Amiens. Italian Renaissance painting gave me my first sensations, and it was Piero della Francesca in particular that I discovered the geometric and chromatic efficiency of a work.
I learned to master this simplification of the image in the "advertising model" courses at the Estienne school, then in the "figurative narrative" courses at the Duperré school. I designed perspectives for luxury kitchens, logotypes and visual identities for various companies.
In the 90s, I decided to devote myself exclusively to painting. I experimented with a variety of materials, opting for propolis (resin extracted from my father's beehives) combined with natural pigments on marouflaged canvas. In 2000: first solo exhibition "Histoire et histoires", prefaced by Jean-Pierre Angremy of the académie française, at the Galerie Lebreton, rue Dauphine, Paris.
Inspired by the consumerist and comforting society, I felt close to narrative figuration as a way of exercising my critical spirit. In 2006, my encounter with collector and gallery owner Yves Suty was both prolific and decisive.
My exhibition "Subversive Séduction" became the title of the very first book devoted to me by art critic Jean-Luc Chalumeau. My paintings subsequently joined private collections and foundations.
2008: exhibition in Seoul at the Private Collection Gallery Coex.
From 2009, I take part in various contemporary art fairs in Lille, Strasbourg and Cologne with the Bayart gallery, while several paintings enter the collection of the Keza gallery in Paris.
As Goethe put it, the space between the self and the appearance of the self is vast, and offers a multitude of roles to play. A reflection that resonates with the keen pleasure I derive from auteur cinema (Borowczyk, Bunuel, Rohmer, Jarmusch, Lynch...).
Drawing is the source of true feeling, and painting the substratum of my thought. Intimacy is theatricalized, but the scene retains a certain mystery and invites the viewer's imagination.
Silence! We turn: between the civil, cerebral being and the animal being with unavowable desires, the human being inhabits an interior landscape containing his finitude, living the alternation of opposites. At times light and sublimation, at others dark night and perversion. Between the life drive and the death drive (as in Empedocles' vertigo as he throws himself into Mount Etna), it's in the temptation of not-willing that we find out what we are.
In my paintings, female identity evokes the original core. The woman as bound within herself. In Italian, we would say of her "Sfogarsi": to extract fire, to free oneself from fire."
Myriam Baudin