France

Céline Cléron

?Céline Cléron is an artist who lives and works in Paris, France. Cléron unlocks the cabinet of curiosities and explores the formal juxtapositions that exist between objects of art, history and naturalism.  The artist?s mix of empiricism with creativity render an array of exceptional metaphors, highlighting the duplicity of meanings.

 

Une minute de latitude (2011) is a bronze-cast playground slide along with a small model of the boat sailed by Christopher Columbus to South America in 1492. Cléron explored the equivocal characteristic of natural beauty in a site-specific piece titled Nature Permanente (2010) that consisted of gigantic, fabricated hair rollers that were instead within the drooping branches of willow trees.

 

History and nature made the perfect collusion in La Régente (2010) a glass-encased collar of Dutch lace paired with a complimentary piece of beeswax. Céline Cléron installed this honeycomb-layered fabric in the middle of a surrounding bee colony.  Over time, the bees extended the protected habitat of the Queen.  The collar of La Régente served as a representative and relic of the hidden monarch.

 

In October 2012, Céline Cléron?s work will be featured in Edouard & Cléopatre at the Villa Empain ? Fondation Boghossian that is located in Brussels, Belgium. In 2011 Cléron?s small drawings on popped balloons appeared in L?Ivresse, a group show at the Maison Guerlain in Paris.?

 

 Jill Conner, 2012

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