Exhibition guide

From the sea to the forest, via Paris; rain at the zenith; from everyday objects to natural elements, Sophie Cérésa gives us a taste of varied atmospheres, with a thousand sensations.

Visit details

  • Dates: From Wednesday June 3, 2026 to Saturday June 20, 2026: Saturday from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
  • Venue: Galerie Michael Lonsdale, 30 Rue De Bourgogne, paris
  • Price: free
  • Audience: All audiences
  • Source: Event page

About the exhibition

It is certainly from the contrast between the demanding intellectual life of the doctor and the intuitive life of the aesthete attracted by the great Italian masters that the painting of Sophie Cérésa was born, between formal research and poetic inspiration. Close to the material, the artist seeks purity and flirts with the abstract without ever getting lost because the motif or the landscape remains a subject, support for a meditation that goes beyond it. There is a grip on everyday life which, in Sophie Cérésa, questions us and, through the language specific to this humble and spiritual painting, accompanies us in our own introspection.

“Hurry to transmit

Your wonderful part of charitable rebellion. », writes René Char 1], in his desperate quest to capture “the inexpressible life” that he refuses to concede to the prosaism that surrounds him. Sophie Cérésa, when she plays with opposites and contrasts her storms with solar lights, responds to the poet's injunction, and in turn delivers her share of the marvelous. His painting, which can be seen as a quest, pursues a discreet beauty: that aroused by a reality which escapes the vain attempts of words. A deep vision, an invitation to look within yourself when you look into the distance, this is what Sophie Cérésa's painting conveys.

The artist

Born in 1959, Sophie Cérésa responded to the urgency of painting after a doctorate in law and a first career as a business lawyer. For thirty years, from her Parisian studio, she has sought answers to questions that only shape and color can outline, put into paintings rather than words. She exhibits in Paris and in the provinces, with the always renewed honesty of one who seeks "the secret poetry that emerges from the things seen", as the painter Truffemus writes about her in their correspondence.

Trained at the Art Student League in New York City and at the Arts Déco in Paris, Sophie Cérésa is driven by the tangible relationship she maintains with the material: raw material first, since she works on vibration through successive layers of oil paint, and material-model then, since what surrounds it becomes the support for an in-depth vision, beyond the glaze of appearance to seek the emotion of reality. For thirty years, still lifes, forests, urban landscapes and shady seas have nourished a work whose aesthetic of simplicity and unveiling captivates and delights.