Christophe Cuzin was born in 1956. He lives and works in Paris. The whole of his work is the fruit of an approach which consists within a given space of setting up a dialogue between the paint, the light, colour, architecture, and volume. Rather than keep a photographic record of his exhibitions, Christophe Cuzin for the most part prefers to keep the sketches and models which defined his work. Using a system of constraints set up in 1986, namely the use of identical formats (185 x 135 cm), symmetrical design, lines 13 cm wide in matt building paint, Christophe Cuzin recombines these elements in each of the exhibition venues he takes over, treating the space and its architecture as his working medium. The constraints of the space are thereby overcome through the independent action of the artist creating new formal relationships. Despite these limitations, each of his works is unique, some of them involving interplay between painting, colour, natural light and space as in 1990, when the canvases were placed in front of each window of the exhibition venue, allowing the changing and fading light of the day to pass beside them and spread into the space, turning it into a kind of space-time.
On other occasions, he has turned the chair rail of the exhibition venue wall into the art object itself, hollowing, designing with the wall itself and thereby playing on the oppositions and interplay between "illusion and reality, pictorial and architectural space, between the painting as image and the reality of the painting." (Olivier Grasser, Art Press, October 1993) (Reliefs, 1991). He extends this pictorial duality to the space itself in creating volumes, spilling over from the three-dimensionality suggested in his works.
