Caroline Chariot-Dayez (born

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

, 11 September 1958) is a Belgian hyperrealistic

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. Although interested in painting from a very early age, she studied philosophy in order to understand what painting is. She was deeply influenced by the French phenomenologist

Maurice Merleau-Ponty Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty. ( ; ; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interes ...

, who wrote extensively on perception, vision, embodiment, and painting. Her life has been an ongoing interaction between philosophy, which she teaches, and painting. Until the age of forty, she was reluctant to show her paintings in public (with the exception of an appearance on the Belgian Broadcasting Corporation programme "The Arts at Large" in 1995). She lives and works in

Exhibitions

* March 1999 – Galerie Elian Lisart – Brussels * November 2000 – Galerie Tempera – Brussels (Place Royale-Koningsplein) * December 2000 – Linéart – Ghent * February 2001 – Galerie Brûlée – Strasbourg * March–August 2001 – Galerie Tempera – Brussels (Place Royale-Koningsplein) * 2002 – Galerie Brulée, Strasbourg * 2002 – Galerie Arcadia, Lille, 2002 * 2003 – Collins and Hastie Gallery, London * 2005 – Galerie Visconti, Paris * April 2006 – Lars Bolander, New York City "The Fold" * 2007 – Tessenderloo Group, Brussels * March–April 2009 – Cathedral of Brussels, Brussels

Bibliography

*"Caroline Chariot-Dayez", Editions Art in Belgium, Lasne, 2005.

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External links

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