These micro-visits, organized around the notion of «Matrimoine», highlight contemporary female creation through works of art made under the 1% artistic.

The LoRA (Lorraine Contemporary Art) network has chosen to take an attentive look at female artistic creation in the public space through the notion of «Matrimoine».
Art historian and researcher Loïc Stelitano accepted an invitation from the network to organize a 1% tour of the works that he has been studying since 2017. Our approach is based on the principle that mediation is a means to lead towards a better recognition, and a beginning of appropriation of works of art in the public space.
The selection of works is intended to be broad and representative of the diversity of artistic creation, from the 1950s until 2000: ceramics, installations, sculptures and paintings will be presented. The visits are organized in a similar way and are expected to last 45 minutes.
The crossing of sketches and preliminary sketches with precious testimonies and anecdotes of artists, architects and users witnesses of the realization of the 1% will allow to discover the work in a new light. Thanks to these sources, it is the whole of the order from the genesis to the realization of the work that can be documented.
We hope that these unpublished visits, intended to shed light on female artistic creation in the public space, will not fail to pique your curiosity!

Short biography of the artist

Cécile Bart (born 1958 in Dijon) is a visual artist. She lives and works in Marsannay-la-Côte in Côte d'Or. From 1982 she continued her research at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'art de Dijon, from which she graduated in 1987.
In 1986, while still under study, she developed the pictorial device of Peintures-écrans, which she used repeatedly in her work. Thanks to this device, whether it comes in the form of paintings, screens, tapestries of straights or even paintings-collages, she uses color as an element in motion.
She paints on a fabric of Tergal «full day» stretched on a frame of wood or metal, which she paints, then wipes, until obtaining the transparency and the desired effects. The viewer is an integral part of his screen paintings. Through its movements and passages, the human silhouette varies contrasts and causes light effects.

Presentation of the work 1% artistic

In 1995, she won the competition for the realization of the 1% artistic for the extension of the university library of the Humanities campus. Cécile Bart proposes a screen painting that she imagines as the backdrop of the main staircase of the library.
This work, which is highly integrated into the building that hosts it, provides a fine example of this notion of "art and architecture", so characteristic of the 1%, where architecture and plastic work meet to merge.