Nathalie CULOT
An artist born in 1963, Nathalie Culot graduated from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She has turned away from painting to focus solely on coloured pigments, which she employs masterfully and with great sensitivity in the novel medium of recycled cardboard.
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Nathalie Culot's works are intended not only as paintings but as explorations of material, including volumes and the notion of coloured light. In her hands, cardboard becomes a work of art that she reinvents in each piece, bringing new life to the material through her totally unique techniques of cutting, folding, shaping, assembling, and colouring.
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Her work, with its many visual effects, gives meaning to space through its original, high-relief frescoes, and has been commissioned by architectural agencies and for public places such as libraries.
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Nathalie Culot gives new life to a space, bringing a wall to life by capitalising on the surrounding light sources. Cardboard also has soundproofing qualities and helps retain heat in the space.
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Her exploration of light through the very material of painting itself (and of volume) brings to mind the work of Rothko or Soulages.

Encre et acrylique sur carton, 36,5 x 32 cm

Encre et acrylique sur carton, 22 x27 cm

Encre et acrylique sur carton, 27 x 25 cm

Encre et acrylique sur carton, 36 x36 cm

Carton, 51 x 101 cm

50 x 50 cm

50 x 50 cm

110 x 130 cm

Encre sur carton, 40 x 41 cm

92 x 100 cm
Straddling the boundary between painting and sculpture, her works invite us to engage in visual contemplation replete with meaning.