Cécile Bart

Cécile Bart (born 1958) is a French painter and visual artist. She lives and works in Marsannay-la-Côte.

Life Cécile Bart was born in Dijon, Côte-d'Or. She enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts of Dijon in September 1982, where she met French conceptual artist Sylvia Bossu. For her early work, she projected light on transparent sailing screens. The vocabulary of Bart is projection of color in places, transparent screens that receive and diffuse the light, with the visitor being part of the devices. Her works are created according to the space in which they are presented.

She uses as a manufacturing process a veil of Tergal that takes on a color with a brush. Depending on the number of layers, the color increases in intensity and becomes material. The veil is then stretched on an aluminum frame.

For Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, she offered five color elements with as many frames. The visitor fits in the frame, so in the painting, and becomes surface that receives the color.

In 2004, Bart used fabric, for Toros, Lisses and Coulisses, sort of curtains alternating between open and closed. She also used the projection of films or photos.

In 2017, Bart offered silent show at the Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré. This time, she used for this installation, painting, cinema and dance. Dance sequences were projected on nine screens. The exhibition was silent. The bodies of the visitors mingle with the projected bodies. The image is split and set in motion. Here, the room is plunged into darkness. As in Bart's previous works, natural light played an important role.

Public collections 1% for the CASS (Health and Social Action Fund) of Ivry-sur-Seine, new construction of architects XTU Paris, 2008 Red painting, blue yard, Lycée Jean Vilar, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, 2007 The Two Ladies, installation, 2005, Dijon, Dijon Museum of Fine Arts And rain, the sun, Maison d'enfants l'Arc-en-Ciel, Thiers, New Sponsors program of the Fondation de France, 2001-2003 Accompanying Painting, Saint-Joseph and Saint-Luc Hospital, Lyon, 1998-2001 Painting / screen under glass, University Library Nancy II, 1995 Profiles (3), consisting of five square format frames, Frac Bretagne, 2001

Exhibitions 2010 The hypothesis of the lost ground, Cécile Bart, Concrete art space, Mouans castle, Mouans-Sartoux (Alpes-Maritimes) Opening, poetics of the various: Rennes (France), Frac Bretagne, 5 July 2012 – 8 July 2012 2013 Engine, seven transparent screen paintings suspended from the vaults of the chapel Jeanne d'Arc in Thouars. 2017 Silent show, CCCOD, Tours

2018-2019 Winter effect, , Rennes 2020 Rose Gold, , Besançon