Béatrice Cussol

Béatrice Cussol
Period: 2009-2010
Profession: Plastician Béatrice Cussol was born in Toulouse in 1970. After studying at La villa Arson, École des Beaux-Arts in Nice, she now lives and works in Malakoff, and teaches at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen.
Sinon (Editions Leo Scheer) is her third novel, following ”
merci” (Balland, 2000) and
Pompon (Balland, 2001). The fourth is due for publication in November 2009. In November 2006, Editions du Chemin de Fer published
Je hais les dormeurs by Violette Leduc, accompanied by details of a drawing by Béatrice Cussol. A visual artist, she is an assiduous practitioner of collage and drawing, using watercolor and ballpoint pen in reverse, on large sheets of paper or on large sections of wall, through an unnatural use of watercolor and bic: the fresco, or almost. She is represented by Galerie Eric Mircher in Paris, as well as by envoy Gallery in New York, Galerie Porte Avion in Marseille and Galerie Charlotte Moser in Geneva. She took part in the exhibitions ”
Global feminism show” at the Brooklyn Museum in 2007, ”
Revolt, she said!”at La Criée, Rennes, in 2006,
My favorite things , at the musée d’art contemporain de Lyon in 2005,
Absolut Generations , at Palazzo Zenobio, at the Venice Biennale in 2003,
Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory show , at Villa Arson, Nice, the same year,
Guide to trust 2 , Yerba Buena Center for the arts, San Francisco in 2002, exhibited her drawings at the Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland,  to the  Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland. Her work is in the public collections of FRAC PACA, FNAC, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain de Nice, Mamco, Musée d’Art moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. She received the Aide individuelle à la création de la DRAC île de France 2001 and in 2005, the Bourse d’encouragement du CNL 2002. Resident at Villa Medici from April 2009 to April 2010, she wishes to confront her drawings with the vision of grotesques in and around Roman villas, and with the statues that haunt her on her journeys from her home to her studio.