Christel D. PETRAUD

Christel D. PETRAUD

  • Artist’s Statement

    My work explores areas of passage and transition where perception wavers between presence and absence, visible and invisible. Through my series Shadows Colours, Blur and Matrix, I question these intermediate spaces, these suspended moments that defy clear classification. I use colour, light and superimposition to create works that invite viewers to experience this fragile threshold where identities and realities are transformed. My canvases are bridges between states in the making, revealing the beauty of the moments of uncertainty and ambiguity that define our relationship with the world.

  • Biography

    Christel DELRIEU Petraud is a French artist whose work embodies a profound quest for perception and reality, boldly exploring the intermediate zones and invisible thresholds that shape our view of the world. Through her paintings, she invites the viewer to experience a reality that is no longer fixed, but in perpetual transformation, between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the immaterial.

    At the heart of her approach lies the notion of **liminality**, that state of in-between, that fragile passage between different realities or identities. Her major series — *Shadows Colors*, *Blur* and *Matrix*—embody this idea of constant transition: vibrant portraits where colour and light become veils playing on visibility and invisibility, blurred lines that capture the fragility and temporality of human existence, and a graphic matrix inspired by quantum physics that reveals the invisible connections of the universe.

    Christel blends classical techniques with an innovative contemporary vision, combining scientific rigour with aesthetic abandon. Her work deconstructs the infinitely small and the infinitely large to reveal parallel, unsuspected universes accessible through art. Through this approach, she opens up a liminal space, at once intellectual, aesthetic and sensory, where the boundaries between the figurative and the abstract, the normal and the strange, become blurred.
    This exploration of perceptual thresholds allows Christel DELRIEU Petraud to question human nature, memory, and the construction of time, while inviting poetic reflection on the complexity of our relationship with the world. Each work is an invitation to enter these spaces where the impossible becomes visible, where reality is filtered, transformed, and revealed in its multiple layers.

    Two recent exhibitions perfectly illustrate her approach: *Traversal Reality*, presented at the end of 2024 in Leyden, the Netherlands, an exhibition that highlighted transitional states and multiple realities in contemporary art, showcasing Christel's ability to navigate between different planes of perception. In 2025, the solo exhibition *100 Filters*, at the Chapelle-Observance Museum in France, offered an immersion into the heart of her research on visual fragmentation and ambiguity, further reinforcing the liminal dimension of her work.

    Thus, Christel's work is profoundly liminal, a journey between suspended states that question the way we see, feel and understand, and celebrate the beauty and vulnerability inherent in our human condition.

  • Influences

    - Francis Bacon: For his way of transcending classical portraiture, shifting it towards abstraction and raw emotion, emphasizing sensation over faithful representation. Notably in the “Blur” series by Christel D. Petraud
    - Gerhard Richter: For the blurred boundary between abstraction and figuration in his portraits, the use of large formats, and the dissociation of the face in favor of a multiple and sensory reading of the work.
    - Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely, Kandinsky: For the rhythm, vibratory effect, and optical experience, where repetition and color variations energize the surface and immerse the observer in a perception of movement.
    - Sonia Delaunay and the Orphism movement: For their exploration of pure colors, pictorial rhythm, and the role of color vibration, creating works that are both abstract and evocative.
    - David Hockney (colorful portrait period): For synthesizing the portrait motif with chromatic intensity and simplified forms, creating a sensation that is both familiar and unsettling.

    Overall, Christel Delrieu Pétraud combines a pop and graphic spirit with a reflection on science, perception, and message, making her universe colorful, conceptual, and engaged in a poetic quest for vision and reality.

  • Awards

    Prize : Médaille d’or du Foro Europa for Art, Madrid, Espagne, novembre 2016
    Museum collection : Palestine MUSEUM USA, Connecticut, USA, since april 2018

  • Exhibitions

    Events 2025
    BIENNALE BRABANT | THE NETHERLANDS
    From December 5 to 14, 2025
    Address : De Koepelhal, Burgemeester Brokxlaan 2, 5041 SB Tilburg

    SALON DES ARTS | THE NETHERLANDS
    26 septembre au 5 octobre with Van Loon Galleries
    Address : Hotel de Leijhof, Oisterwijk

    GALERIE MARCIANO | FRANCE
    Address : 4 Avenue Marie-Louise | Passage du Royal 44500 La Baule, France

    MUSEE CHAPELLE OBSERVANCE | FRANCE
    « 100 FILTRES » Exposition personnelle Du 7 février au 24 mai 2025
    Address : 2-86 Mont du Rigoulier, 83300 Draguignan, France

    VAN LOON Galleries | THE NETHERLANDS
    Address: Heuvel 4, Vught

    KUNSTHUIZEN Gallery | THE NETHERLANDS
    Address: Leiden – Amsterdam – Breda

    VENTE AUX ENCHERES | FRANCE
    MAI 2025 Salle de l’Industrie, PARIS

    Events 2024
    KUNSTHUIZEN Gallery | THE NETHERLANDS
    SOLO SHOW From September 21 to october 13, 2024
    Address : Nieuwstraat 33, 2312 KA Leiden,
    Pays-Bas

    BIENNALE EINDHOVEN | THE NETHERLANDS
    From March 15 to 24, 2024
    Address : Domusdela, Kanaalstraat 4, 5611 CT Eindhoven

    VAN LOON Galleries | THE NETHERLANDS
    Permanent exhibition
    Address : Heuvel 4, Vught

    ADIKT GALERIE | FRANCE
    Permanent exhibition
    Address : Résidence de l’Hermitage, Pl. de l’Hermitage, 62520 Le Touquet-Paris-Plage

    KUNSTHUIZEN Gallery | THE NETHERLANDS
    Leiden – Amsterdam – Breda

    IXIART Gallery | FRANCE
    Permanent exhibition
    Address : Port St Sauveur, Toulouse

    Galerie ANNOTIAU | FRANCE
    Permanent exhibition
    Address : Place du Bourg, Rodez

    Events 2023
    BIENNALE BRABANT | THE NETHERLANDS
    From November 17 to 26, 2023
    Address : De Koepelhal, Burgemeester Brokxlaan 2, 5041 SB Tilburg

    VAN LOON Galleries | THE NETHERLANDS
    Heuvel 4, Vught

    KUNSTHUIZEN Gallery | THE NETHERLANDS
    Leiden – Amsterdam – Breda

    Gallery GOT | FLORIDA, USA
    ART MIAMI, WINWOOD, PALM BEACH

    Galerie Ariel JAKOB | FRANCE
    28 place des Vosges, Paris
    MARCH & JULY *** SOLO EXHIBITION

    IXIART Gallery | FRANCE
    Port St Sauveur, Toulouse

    Galerie ANNOTIAU | FRANCE
    Place du Bourg, Rodez

    Events 2022
    Galerie Ariel Jacob | FRANCE
    28 place des Vosges, Paris

    IXIART Gallery | FRANCE
    Port St Sauveur, Toulouse

    KUNSTHUIZEN Gallery | THE NETHERLANDS
    Leiden – Amsterdam – Breda

    Gallery GOT | FLORIDA, USA
    ART MIAMI, WINWOOD, PALM BEACH

    Events 2021
    ARIEL JAKOB Gallery | FRANCE
    28 place des Vosges, Paris

    FREDERIC GOT Gallery | FRANCE
    Rue grande, Saint Paul de Vence

    IXIART Gallery | FRANCE
    Port St Sauveur, Toulouse

    KUNSTHUIZEN Gallery | THE NETHERLANDS
    Leiden – Amsterdam – Breda, THE NETHERLANDS

    ART FAIRS | USA
    ART MIAMI 2021, ART CONTEXT Miami, FLORIDA

    Events 2020
    Paris Art Fair 2020: Art3F 01/2020, France
    Toulouse Art Fair 2020: Art3F 03/2020, France
    Artist Day : Galerie Annotiau 07/2020, Rodez, France
    Monaco Art Fair 2020: Art3F 06/2020
    Nuit d’art invité: 09/2020 Toulouse, France
    Nantes Art Fair 2020: Art3F 11/2020, France

    Events 2019
    Excellence Art Gallery, Marbella, Espagne
    Galerie Nicolet, Avignon, France
    Galerie Annotiau, Rodez, France
    Galerie de l’Estuaire, Honfleur, France

    Events 2018
    Galerie Agama, Toulouse, France
    Palestine Museum US, Woodbridge, USA
    Gallery Santana Art, Madrid, Espagne
    Exposition collective avec Cobalt collectif, Toulouse, France

    Events 2017
    Musée international d’art, Turin, Italie
    Art Fair Malaga, Malaga, Espagne
    Invité d’honneur aux peintres et créateurs, Grisolles, France
    L’Atelier 58, Avignon, France
    Art3f Art Fair, Toulouse, France
    Galerie Crisolart, Barcelone, Espagne
    TORO arte contemporanea, Sessa Aurunca, Italie
    Excellence Art Gallery, Marbella, Espagne
    La Matrice: Galerie Annotiau, Rodez, France
    Autre Noir: Galerie Annotiau, Rodez, France 31e
    Foire d’art plastique de La Rochelle, France

    Events 2016
    Artoulouse, Toulouse, France
    Galerie Annotiau, Rodez, France
    Des artistes se mobilisent autour du vin, Rodez, France
    Honneur à la foire d’art St-Jory, Saint-Jory, France
    L’Atelier 58, Avignon, France
    Festi’arts, Azur, France
    Art3f International, Bruxelles, Belgique
    Art3f Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Events 2015
    Galerie de l’Artelier, Tarbes, France
    Galerie Artiempo, Toulouse, France

  • Website

    https://www.christel-delrieu-petraud.com/

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