"Vietnam" (Collection privée) (1993) Painting by Corine Sylvia Congiu

Corine Sylvia Congiu, born August 5, 1953 in Meknes, Morocco, is a French contemporary artist who lives and works in Essonne.

Received the Agrégation d'Arts Plastics, she completed a DEA in Aesthetics, two years of philosophy at La Sorbonne while undertaking a career as a painter.

Protean visual artist whose preferred medium remains painting, she also practices drawing, photography, video, publishes a novel and several short stories, selected by prize and competition.

Since 1987, she has regularly exhibited her works in galleries (Galeries Jean, Keller, Génie de la Bastille in Paris, A propos d'Art in Argenteuil, Galerie Depardieu in Nice), fairs (Villeparisis, Montrouge, Comparisons, Première Vision , Art Cité...), Cultural centers (Institut du Monde Arabe...) Museums (Brunoy and Museum of Damascus, Syria) and other notable places (Prieuré Saint-Nicolas Sables d'Olonne, Chapelle Saint Nicolas, Croissy on Seine)

In 1992, she carried out a Public Commission, painted environment (floor, walls and columns) of 350 m2 in the hall of the Lycée Hugues-Capet in Senlis.

To From 1995, his works were exhibited in Moscow, Seoul, Hong Kong, Alexandria, Genoa, San Francisco, Algiers, Damascus, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Ferrara, Vooburg, Budapest.

In 1998 , winner of the City of Evry Competition, Abolition of Slavery, she completed a 10 m × 2 m painting, which she donated to the Téléthon.

From 1994, she collaborated, as an actress and scenographer, at the work of Luc Fritsch, playwright and director: She creates the entire pictorial environment, at the Théâtre de l'Hôpital Ephémère, 25 paintings projected on a large screen (3m x 4m) for the theatrical performance "Ruines / Post-Vietnam through the survival of a couple" and plays the leading female role. She participated in the sets and created the leading role in 'La Ballade des mégots secs', by Bernard Mazéas, directed by L. Fritsch in 1999 in the Cave à Théâtre in Colombes.

In 2004, for a commission from the Art Dialogue Foundation under the auspices of the Institut de France, she executed the installation Histoire d'une ligne, ten monumental canvases measuring 400 cm × 200 cm and 200 cm × 200 cm on the walls of the City of Yerres, and obtained a purchase by the city.

In June 2014, she produced paintings and drawings for Cosmophonies, a double-voice show created at the Theater des Bouffes du Nord by Hubert Reeves as part of the Festival Jazz Nomades.

She publishes texts in academic journals, developing a theory of Abstract Figures, which distinguishes her work from traditional lyrical abstraction . Both gestural and geometric, these "Figures of thought" play like a rebus of signs superimposed in the watermark of the canvas: “My painting is an open place where a theater of abstract figures is played out, which have an energy, a path, a role within actions which form a dramaturgy. »

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1953
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists