Béatrice Casadesus — À propos — Slash Paris

Béatrice Casadesus resembles her own works. There is something infrangible in her clear gaze. Crowned with flaxen hair, her face radiates the very light that she infuses in her
changing materials. Sweet looks, however, can be deceiving.
Béatrice Casadesus began with sculpture. Then, her travels to Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, and Indonesia inspired a shift of focus: paper, and above, all the search for the point.

Light, the organizer of her work, cuts through the weave of the material, all the while playing tinkling, wintry, sunny music over a background of lilacs — some blue, some pink, some gold.
Shimmering before our eyes, the light graces her work with one indistinct, milky, colour ofswirling hues.

Béatrice Casadesus draws viewers in with the tempo of her chromatic breathing, creating an impressive ballet of unintentional recollections that transport us to the gardens of the old wise man of Giverny, to the beaded focus of Georges Seurat, and to the sfumato of da Vinci.

Maurice Benhamou describes Béatrice Casadesus’s works as, “Free, floating, simmering, yet lightweight in gravity, [as] Nietzche might have said.” Béatrice Casadesus’s light often recalls August blue skies, as transparent as a Fra Angelico, made from goodness only knows what precious material. Turquoise perhaps.