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Delphine Decourcelle
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Jan 5, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
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In January and February 2025, Philippe Cougrand exhibits some of his works at the café-restaurant Le Caboulot in Saint-Macaire (Gironde), where Jo and Sonia welcome you for “homemade and local” cuisine, from here and there. elsewhere. Philippe Cougrand is better known for his books than his paintings. But the author of Folies-Batignolles, Bitter garonne, Deadly Estuary (Aquitaine Literary Prize 2007), The Portrait of Sarah Weinberg (Literary Prize of the City of Balma 2013) returned to the sources of his first artistic inspirations, that is to say painting.
Lights and contrasts
For five years, he has been developing his creative work through Genre scenesof the Paysages & Architectures and Grands Portraits.
“I am inspired bytransformed photographic or audiovisual imagesand the lights and contrasts of the skies and the stones of Aquitaine,” specifies Philippe Cougrand.
Aquitaine Literary Prize 2007
Philippe Cougrand, born in 1957 in Bordeaux, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and dialogue writer. He received the 2007 Aquitaine Literary Prize for Mortel estuaire. This is the first time that the prize has rewarded a thriller. Philippe Cougrand: “This prize first of all symbolizes in my eyes the recognition of a certain quality of writing, linked to my desire to tell a story, and the recognition of a narrator who, through his personal imagination, attempts to favoring the reader's pleasure My stories are naturally close to my heart, but Aquitaine, with its landscapes and its lights, has been from the start one of the most constant “characters.” (source: Wikipedia)
“The whole forms so many sites to recognize, and familiar memories in which everyone can “find” themselves. With humor sometimes, when, like a wink, periods and pictorial styles confront each other.”
19 paintings exhibited
This first ever solo exhibition follows his participation in the Salon des Arts in the city of Talence, in November 2024. Nineteen paintings by the artist can be discovered at the Caboulot de Saint-Macaire, 18 rue Carnot. Opening scheduled for Friday January 10, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday to Sunday inclusive. Tel: 05 57 36 64 33. Contact: [email protected] Facebook: Le Caboulot / Instagram: Ivresse_de_la_metamorphose
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