Description

Corinne Deville’s works require careful observation to grasp their full significance. They reflect the artist’s broad culture; she was also an avid reader, collector of objects, and, here, creator of worlds. Corinne Deville could easily be associated with naïve art for her pretty subjects and the flatness of her compositions, or with art brut for her assemblages of repurposed objects and the grand fresco that her painting creates. Folk art could also be evoked because of her references to visual culture and regional art forms, or modern art for her flat colors and folkloric themes. As visionary as Arthur Rimbaud, delivering fragments of an inner universe, Corinne Deville adds to it a chronicle of her outer universe. Her work today appears as a series of paintings of her life, itself rendered in paint.