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MICHEL DE CAsO
Lives and works in villeneuve-Les-montréal, France
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 www.michel-de-caso.com
artist contact on perForateD wooD paneL 60x40 in. /153x102 cm. (eacH) recto-verseD
 sedoac@aol.com
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Born in Toulouse, Michel De Caso studied Art in Paris and in the Paris “Rectoversion an 10 de l’an 10000 “ (rectoversion, year 10 of the year 10000).
region where he lived until 2000 when he returned to the light of the As a painter who dons the hat of a thinker, he has published several works
South of France near Carcasonne to pursue his creative career. His world on the subject. Although Michel De Caso’s work is today completed in the
is first and foremost a world of colour: “I began to paint at the age of 18 heart of Cathar country, it is not work that aims at solving mysteries, rather
to enter into communion with painting,” he says. In Rectoversion, only the it aims at answering questions that Man asks himself. His invention does not
wooden substrates have holes in. Given the fragility of canvas, the holes replace what already exists but it does enhance it. “Although the subject is
are only suggested. “This concept, comments Michel De Caso, is in line important, adds Michel De Caso, it is up to each individual to interpret the
with my journey as a painter. It has been fostered by my experience and is work as he wishes”. This enables him to escape from the intellectualization
particularly well adapted to my metaphysical style”. His concerns are also of the concept that he has to create in order to express his own artistic
in harmony with those of a certain number of artists who have gathered sensitivity and as a result, to appeal to the spectator’s sensitivity. A type of
around Michel De Caso, largely thanks to the Web, in the movement entitled painting where a lot still remains to be said.
Alain COUDERT, Art Critic