Biography - La peinture de Corine Sylvia Congiu

Corine Sylvia CONGIU
Les Loges de l'Ombre 16, Avenue de Jarcy 91 480 Varennes-Jarcy 06 16 74 16 44
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Site : www.congiu.fr
Corine Sylvia CONGIU
Lives and works in the Paris area.
Qualified teacher of Art since 1981. Current doctoral thesis: "Les lettres à Zozo ou la parole
impossible ".
Since 1987, her works have been regularly shown in personal or collective exhibitions in galleries,
museums, shows of Contemporary Art.
Since 1991 some of her paintings have been sold in famous Auction Rooms (Hôtel Drouot, Salle
Wagram).
In 1992, as the winner of a State Competition, she achieves a painted environment (ground, walls and
columns) of a total surface of 350 m 2 in the Hall of the High school “Hugues Capet” in Senlis.
She begins an international career with an exhibition in Moscow in 1995.
As an actress and a scenographer, she regularly contributes to the work of Luc Fritsch, a dramatist and
a director:
• For "Cavale" (Short film B & W, 35mm, 9mn 30), she lends five of the works and plays the
main feminine character. This film was shown at the Third Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,
special previews on November 5th, 1988.
• For "Fragments d'Ecritures 02" (Théâtre Beaunord, 1990), she creates five floating pictures
(3,50 x 2,50 meters),
• She creates the whole pictorial environment of 25 pictures shown on a big screen (3m x 4m)
for the theatrical performance written and staged by Luc Fritsch: "Ruins/ AprèsVietnam
through the survival of a couple” and plays the feminine leading part (Espace Théâtre /
Hôpital Ephémère, 1994),
In 1997, the International Fashion Exhibition " Première Vision" orders her twenty seven pictures for
the exhibition 4th – 7th October
ln 1998, she wins the second prize of the «Abolition of slavery " competition in Evry near Paris (10
metres of painting on fence).
She carries on with her international career by participating in “MANIF”, Seoul Arts Center, Korea in
2001, 2003: Hong Kong, China: (International Contemporary Art Fair) and Alexandria, Egypt
(Rencontres au féminin, Centre Culturel Français). 2004 : Genova, Italy, Palazzo Duccale
(Manifestation internationale « Genova 04 ») and Palazzo Meridiana. 2005: San Francisco, Galerie
Limn and Algiers, Galerie Top Action.
In 2004 she gets an order from the « Art Dialogue » Foundation under the care of the Institut de
France, Paris and achieves an installation of 10 monumental pictures of 400 cm x 200cm and 200 cm
x 200 cm on the walls of the city.
Besides her activity as a painter and an actress, she publishes articles in reviews or university works.
• 1988 :"Ainsi devient-elle pensive", review Ecart n° 0,
• 1996 : "La croix et la bannière ou le carrefour invisible" in "X, l'oeuvre en procès", Croisements
dans l'art, vol.1, publications of the Sorbonne CERAP.
• 1996 : "Paris-Moscou" par C.S. Congiu, «Scraab", Review of the Association "Artistes à la
Bastille" nos 14, 15,16.
• 2001 : "Arrêt sur image en quelques points et quelques suspensions" Review PLastik N° 1,
2001
• 2001 :« Facteurs de troubles », catalogue of the exhition at the Espace Reverdy in Nanterre,
st
11th-21 Dec. 2001
• 2004 : « Entretien avec Corine Sylvia Congiu », by Brigitte Jensen, Paris-Art.com, june 04
• 2006 : « Mission impossible « in «Actes : L’art et le Politique interloqués », éditions de
l’Harmattan, Coll. Esthétique/ Arts, janvier
Some of her works are kept in the temporary fund of the EIUAC (Espace Universitaire d'Art
Contemporain), Artothèque Universitaire IUT de Sénart, 77127 Lieusaint