"One must always apologize for talking about painting". (Paul Valery- "About Corot")
 
Catte was born in 1957, in Normandy, France. Master of Fine Arts in 1981. Participation in Contemporary Art Fairs (Paris, Nice, London, Chicago, Geneva). Numerous exhibitions in France and U.S.A since 1982. To come: Galerie Lazarew, Paris, (March/April 2012) recent shows : Galerie Lazarew, Paris (March/May 2011) + Art Paris 2011 + Chic Art Fair (Paris 2011) Galerie Mam, Rouen, 2010 Galeria R.A.C, Xalapa, Mexico, 2009
“The time when the difference between an abstract painting and a representational painting is over. For a few years ago (since his New York City serie) O.Catte is taking liberally both approaches. The resulting work is hybrid: neither representationnal nor abstract, but something in between. O.Catte deliberally fuses the two: What at first appears to be an abstract composition is, upon closer examinationk, something about the space between abstraction and reoresentation.”
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