If the world is an enigma, Katia Monaci introduces clues on her canvas. In her mysterious painted universe merges and responds elements of a divided cosmogony. Plants, animals, minerals, feeds phantasmagoric landscapes of a nature perceived as in a chaman’s dream or some other species’ eyes.
If nature is everywhere, human is at the very center of the artist’s practice, always carefully composing with both as parts of a totality. Throw her singular work within colors and matter, she makes this invisible cosmogony happening and responds visually to the symbolical lexicon she either invents or borrows as from tarology. Here, a predominant blue allows our emotional connection to this color. There, a scratched or partially covered figure contaminated by its environment inscribes itself in, or rather comes from, this painted universe.
Deeply instinctive, Katia Monaci’s painting never passes from a sketch to a canvas. Therefore, every single production : wether they are produced on a sketchbooks or on a canvas, represents itself a moment of this painted enigma.
Solo exhibitions | Expositions individuelles
2020 - LE BAISER DE KALI ET AUTRES SONGES - Galerie du Lendemain - Paris, France
2010 - ARTE IN CUCINA - Parole in cucina, Alba Pezone - Paris, France
2009 - VERTICAL HORIZON - Lasécu, espace d'art contemporain - Lille, France
2009 - TERRA INCOGNITA - Galerie L'Œil du Huit - Paris, France
2006 - TRAVERSÉE - Cinéma MK2 Beaubourg - Paris, France
2005 - CUEILLIR L'INVISIBLE - Centre culturel Jean Cocteau - Les Lilas, France
2005 - MORDRE À TRAVERS - Galerie des Ateliers d’Artistes de Belleville - Paris, France
Group exhibitions | Expositions collectives
2014 - THE BANK - Eye Suffolk, Angleterre
2013 - LASÉCU espace d'art contemporain - Lille, France
2010 - BIENNALE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN - Cachan, France
2010 - TRAVERSÉE D’ART - Saint-Ouen, France
2008 - TRAVERSÉE D’ART - Saint-Ouen, France
2005 - SALON DES ARTS PLASTIQUES - Romainville, France
Grants | Bourses
2009 I 02 - ATELIER D’ARTISTE - attribué par le Ministère de la Culture - Saint-Ouen, France
2005 - ALLOCATION D'INSTALLATION MATÉRIEL - Centre National des Arts Plastiques
2000 - LAURÉATE DE LA FONDATION JEAN-CLAUDE REYNAL sous l’égide de la Fondation de France
2000 - Bourse de résidence à l’étranger : The International School of Art - Italie
1997 - ALLOCATION D'INSTALLATION MATÉRIEL - Centre National des Arts Plastiques
Workshops, residencies | Ateliers, résidences
2002 - CENTRE D'ART GRAPHIQUE ET GRAVURE CONTEMPORAIN - Espagne - sous la direction de l'artiste Paco Mora Peral
2000 - THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ART - Bourse de résidence à l’étranger : lauréate de la Fondation Jean-Claude Reynal - Italie
2000 - sous la direction des artistes Jake Berthot, Bruce Garnier, Louise Hamlin, Ruggero Savinio
2000 I 97 - ATELIER BEAUX-ARTS DE LA VILLE DE PARIS - Paris, France - sous la direction des artistes JF Courteaux, Antoni Ros Blasco
1999 - FONDATION JOAN MIRÓ DE MAJORQUE - Espagne - sous la direction de l'artiste Joan Barbará
1997 - CAMPO DELL'ALTISSIMO - 1993 I 1992 - Italie - sous la direction des artistes Ulf Meyer, Johann Oetken
Education | Formation
Diplômée de l'École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré - Paris, France
