Cendrine Rovini

I was born in 1971 in France. My father, a sculptor, provided me the way to look at my surroundings with an attentive eye and taught me various artistic techniques. I’m currently living and working in Cantal, France.

In my current body of works I’m obsessed with delicacy and lightness. I would like to create some drawings slowly disappearing from the spectator’s eyes. My imagery comes from territories of dream but I don’t make metaphors or symbolic representations – these images really are, by themselves. They belong to the domain of metamorphosis, a recurrent theme in the polytheistic, animistic or shamanistic thoughts.

My work fights against the frozen imaginary of the Unique which only blossoms in violence and exclusion and in the obsession in truth or progress. Metamorphosis belongs to the multiple, to the becoming as perhaps defined by Deleuze when he described the animal-becoming, plant-becoming, woman-becoming: it is not imitation or identification but poetic scrum which makes evident that worlds are fertilized and grown on each other, swollen with life, matter and invisible.

My current work focuses on mixed media on paper or fabric. The use of graphite and colored pencil makes possible a certain lightness of texture and the creation of some details that claims my obsession with the multiple. The silence of the white or creamy surfaces of paper or cloth makes more patent the subtle rustling of metamorphosis that takes places surreptitiously in my image. The movement belongs to erasure, the figures may appear motionless, but in reality they are working on their disappearence from the human eyes. I love small sizes which are favourable for the discretion of such rites and if I even choose larger format, then the creature is to be seen truncated and buried in its vast open spaces.

Le dormir et la pulpe des étoiles

Pour les murmures

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Hermine Cornerouge

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Le souffle des formes.

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A-loree

Melee de lui.

EXHIBITIONS

Solo show
2011 december – 2012 february
Liquide Vermeil, Da-End gallery, Paris (France)

Selected group
2011
Cabinet de Curiosités, first edition, Da-End gallery, Paris (France)

2010
I Am : Artist : Krems (Austria)
Teeny Tiny Art Show : Three Graces Gallery (NH, USA)
Considered Surfaces: Drawing, Painting and Print, Duckett & Jeffreys Gallery (UK)

2009
Carrera Berlin, Reuters Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Les flèches d’Eros, Atelier de la Mine (Sahorre, France)

2007
Oneiros Centre culturel Dea Incognita (Ventremille, France)

2005
Les Jeudis de Nîmes (France)

Private collections in Houston (USA), Lancaster, (Pensylvania, USA), Canton (Michigan, USA), Jamestown (California, USA), Paris (France), Nürnberg (Germany), New York (New York, USA), Toronto (Ontario, Canada), Tehran (Iran), Barcelona (España)…

FEATURED ON THE WEB (Selected):
Saints, Warriors, Tigers, Lovers, Flowers, Art
Doodlers Anonymous
No Icons Culture
The Art Room Plant
The Pigeon Curd
Curiosities & clockwork
The Owl Hooteth

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PUBLICATIONS

August 2011 : Blanket Magazine , first printed edition (http://blanketmagazine.com/)
December 2010 : Carpaccio Magazine, Issue # 21 : The Long Fall, Atem Books
September 2010 : Le tissage de la forêt, Atem Books (fanzine)
Sept-oct 2010, All Things Girl : Mother Nature Father Time
July 2010, Carpaccio Magazine, Issue # 16: I feel at home whenever the unknown surrounds me
January 2010, Carpaccio Guide to emerging illustrators, photographers & artists Vol. 3
December 2009, Carpaccio Magazine, Issue # 9, Every Angel Is Terrible

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