Monique Cognet
Painter from Frankreich
Knorrige Olivenbäume aus uralten Zeiten, magische Lichtschauspiele in wunderbaren Landschaften mit schroffen Felsformationen und voller mystischer Schönheit. / Monique Cognet
Biography of Monique Cognet
Born in 1953
Lives and works in Bourges, France
Studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges
Numerous group and solo exhibitions.
Since 1988, her works have been sold throughout France. Several of her pieces have also been sold to England, Switzerland, Morocco, the USA, and Japan.
Since 2001, she has been listed in the Guide Artistique Akoun. She also founded a successful academy for painting and drawing.
Exhibitions (Selection):
- 2018: Kleemann & Wollmann Partnership, Berlin
- 2017: VOV GmbH, Cologne
- 2017: Hauck Heat Treatment GmbH, Remscheid
- 2017: Infomotion GmbH, Saarbrücken
- 2016: Siegfried Vögele Institute, Königstein
About the art of Monique Cognet
Her encounter with the Provençal lands was a lightning strike. Perhaps it is the unconscious memory of her maternal origins that can be seen in this. Absorbing it, feeling it, and expressing it in her painting became an obvious necessity. The olive trees, symbols of life, and the powerful contrasts of light that sculpt the Alpilles as well as the garrigue, moved her deeply. It is through the strength of gesture applied with her knives, tempered by the smoothness of pigments mixed with oil, that she attempts to convey the emotion felt in her communion with these places, all while being rocked by the song of the cicadas.
