User:Papershut/Beatrice Coron

Beatrice Coron - Cut Stories

Beatrice Coron (July 7th 1956 - ) is a French-born artist who creates paper cutouts using Tivek. Born and raised in Lyon, France. Lived in Taiwan, Mexico and Egypt. Living and working in New York since 1984.

Cut Stories Statement

My work tells stories. I invent situations, cities and worlds. These compositions include memories, associations of words, ideas, observations and thoughts that unfold in improbable juxtapositions. These invented worlds have their own logic and patterns. Images are conveyed through words, whether automatic writing or premeditated scenes. My creative inspiration comes from a text, a poem, the news or from a philosophical concept that can be reduced to a mere title. I research collective memories and myths, questioning the notions of identity and belonging. For each theme, I explore various narratives: one story leads to the next, and the creation process weaves different layers of our relations to the world.

My silhouettes are a language I have developed over the years; my point of view is both detailed and monumental. Cutting from a single piece of material, the profusion of individual stories creates a coherent universe. In my artist books and public art, where I play with full and empty shapes, everything must fall in place: one’s place in the world, one’s place in the city, one’s place in his or her body. In my graphic style, windows are used not to see out but in, placing the spectator in an outsider/insider situation. Shadows, reminiscent of film noir and voyeurism, leaves room for multiple interpretations.

External links

• example.com

Web links

   * Seeing Dance in the City, Reading Dance , number 3, January 6, 2011
   * Mosaic of Art, episode 19, June 19, 2010
   * The Five Senses: Béatrice Coron's cut stories
   * The Tear Sheet: Shadow Play: Béatrice Coron and her dark whimsy by George G.
   * Archiculture, 2010: Béatrice Coron on the Subway
   * Maison à part: Mon portail? Une oeuvre d'art!, July 2009, en français
   * Hell Gate Review, Summer 2008
   * CBS Sunday Morning, December 10, 2006
   * Salon Manhattan: New York Chooses You, film project
   * Costco Connection "Eat Your Words"
   * cmonmetier: en français
   * Willet-Hauser: faceted glass windows
   * Europe-USA, online publication March 2005, en français
   * Dog Eared Magazine, Turtle Press,WA; Issue two
   * Rag and Bone, July, 2008

Publications

   * Hand Papermaking, Volume 23, Number 2, Winter 2008, page 23
   * Blueprint, the magazine for leading architects and designers, issue 259, October 2007, p 178
   * Mercure Liquide number 7, October 2007
   * Riding Easy: Works to Soothe the Harried , New York Time, Art review, April 23, 2006
   * Arcade, Ephémère, Montréal, été 2005,numéro 63, page 64-65
   * City Art: New York's Percent for Art Program, 2005, Merrell publishers, pages 230-231
   * DesignNet June 2005, Seoul, pages120-123
   * “Celle qui enchantait la ville” Métiers d’Art, numéro221, page 28-29, Mai-Juin 2005
   * Book Paradise by Fang-Ling Jong, Taipei, 2004, pages 60-61
   * Recto Verso, Radio Suisse Romande interview par Alain Maillard,
     2 Novembre 2004
   * Come Decorare con gli stencil by Celina di Pisa,2003,p.61-63 ISBN 88-86422-48-2
   * Book Arts by Ha-Rae Kim, Seoul 2003, pages 110-111
   * "New directions in creation" Photosign, Russian CD, December 2003 (view realplayer video)
   * "Paper Magic" The Morning Call review by Geoff Gehman, December 2003.
   * Wall Street Journal review by Stuart Ferguson, December 17, 2003
   * "Creative Process and Organization." Tabellae Ansatae, Volume 3, number 1, Fall issue 2003
   * DesignNet March 2003, Seoul, pages126-131
   * "The art of using papercutting as pochoirs & stencils." Tabellae Ansatae, Volume 2, number 2, Spring issue 2002
   * The book of papercutting by Haeyong Kwon.2002.p.27-28 ISBN 89-86009-10-2
   * "Spotlight on Artist" Newsletter of the Ph.D. Program in French,
     The City University of New York, volume 2, April 2001 (read pages 12-13,pdf file)
   * Paper Illuminated by Helen Hiebert. 2001 p.39 Storey books-ISBN 1-58017-330-6
   * "Le Magazine des Femmes," interview par Laurence Garcia,
     pour Radio France Internationale, 20 Septembre 1999 (écouter en Real Player 20mn)
   * "Regards: livres et découpes." Lunes, numéro 8 (juillet 1999).
   * "Béatrice Coron ou l'art du papier découpé, "Christophe Comentale. Art & Métiers du Livre,
     numéro 211 (Septembre-Octobre 1998): pages16-20