Cédric Teisseire
Date of birth : 1968
Country : france
Born in 1968 in Grasse
Lives and works in Nice
Cédric Teisseire studied at the national modern art institute Villa Arson in Nice, and is also the co-founder of Station in Nice, a gallery given over to modern creation.
Cédric Teissere’s work is based on form, colour and composition and he is particularly interested in the transposition of paint on the surface. He uses movement and colour to explore the various “lands of paint”, paint which, in his work, loses almost all connection with the surface of the painting.
For Alias, he used a syringe to paint on a wax canvas. Each colour ran down the length of the canvas in a straight line, with leftover paint collecting in plastic film at the bottom. After the paint had dried, the film was removed, leaving a stiff and irregular husk at the bottom of the painting. Every step of the creative process can be detected, and Cédric Teissere reveals simultaneously both how the artwork was achieved and the final result, thus proving that any painting is a material act.