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“Odyssey”

Angélique Escandell

Enter the country of the wonders of Cathy Doutreligne. The artist invites you to travel. Travel around the globe, travel in time and memories, where travel to the deepest of ourselves? Everyone will find material to dream and to meditate…

In these colorful landscapes, everything seems familiar but yet nothing is usual. If each element is far from reality, fiction far exceeds the reality because here there is no hierarchy. Scale or perspective. The smallness of each meets the Gigantism of others. Everything is disproportionate. Disproportionately large, disproportionately small, overly crazy. A sweet, cheerful and refreshing, folly to be enjoyed as a little tangy sweet.

Characters typed and freakish alongside all kinds of usual or unusual objects and thriving plants, without apparent direct link, if their forms, their colors, their textures. Underlined by the presence of a collage, suggested by a light drawing pencil or a subtle watercolor, they invent over memories. They call, answer, contradict each other. At the bend of a same drawing, you can feel the breeze of a Norman seaside, the scorching sun of a Moroccan summer mixed with the intoxicating scent of a Venetian cafe-iodine. You will see the muscular torso of a bronze bather, the perfect body of a raphaelique Angel or tired of an old nomadic man silhouette. And if you are hungry, you will enjoy green tea with Mint, bubbles tart of a well coca fresh, juicy fruit of the garden of Eden. So, before this successful and attractive intermingling, you will find yourself dreaming of your childhood, your joys, your getaways, your loves, your happiness… all those delicious moments that you will never forget.”