"One must always apologize for talking about painting". (Paul Valery- "About Corot")

Olivier Catte was born in 1957, in Normandy, France.

Master of Fine Arts in 1981.

Participation in Contemporary Art Fairs (Nice, London, Chicago, Geneva).

Numerous exhibitions in France and U.S.A since 1982.

Winner of the "Soho International Art Competition 2003" juried by the Contemporary Art Museum of Brooklyn, Agora Gallery, New York City (July 2003)

 

2005-2008 : Galerie W, Paris

 

Recent Exhibitions (2004)

 

-L'Etoile, Paris, F

-Galerie "Des Jours et Des Nuits", Villefranche sur Mer

-Galerie "Salon de Thorigny", Paris, F

2003 -Gallery "Le Salon de Thorigny", Paris

2002 -Gallery "Le Salon de Thorigny", Paris

2001 -Gallery " Le Salon de Thorigny", Paris

2000 -Gallery " Le salon de Thorigny", Paris

1999 -Gallery "Le salon de Thorigny", Paris

1998/1997 -Gallery "Le Salon de Thorigny", Paris

1995 -Pavillon des Arts, Pau

- Gallery "Le Salon de Thorigny", Paris

-Galerie Hue, Rouen

1994 -Gallery "Le Salon de Thorigny, Paris

1993/1991 -Galerie Est, Paris

-Lane Gallery, Key West, Florida

1990 -Banana Café, Paris

-Lane Gallery, Key West

-Galerie Est, Paris

1989/1987 -Lane Gallery, Key West

-Galerie Est, Paris

1986 -Fred Gros Gallery, Key West

-Galerie Est, Paris

1985 -Live Oak Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana

-Contemporary Arts Center, Orléans

1984 -Pavillon des Arts, Pau

Since 1999 my inspiration has been New York City: I had the feeling that my art was good enough to grapple with this city that has always been fascinating me.

In New York City I found the adaption perfect between what I see and what I feel: A world of inner tensions, full of contrasts, of changes in the likeness of my work.

O.Catte 2003

About my abstract works: It is not possible for me to give an interpretation of my paintings.

Because I want them to be an expression of a speechless emotion. I like to quote Barnett Newman when he says that aesthetics interests artists as much as ornithology does birds.

My way of expressing myself is in painting, the other languages express different things that don't concern me. Painting is my natural tool.

The pursuit of being an artist has been the only constant thing in my life for as long as I can remember. I believe that everything that happens to me can be transformed into color and therefore into paintings.

I paint to see.

 

O.Catte 2004

"From painting that is nominally abstract to figurative painting that only achieves an imperfect representation of reality, O.Catte explores to the point of exhaustion the real field of painting in its essence and spirit."

Ch.Freck, Paris 2003