artist/ Téxèdre Coco

France

Coco Téxèdre was born in 1953 in Saint Georges-des-Groseilliers, Orne. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tours. A painter, sculptor, and author of art books, she has collaborated on numerous occasions with the writer and poet Suzanne Aurbach, as well as with Daniel Leuwers, Géraldine Jeffroy, Philippe Madral, and Laurent Grison. Her work as a painter is appreciated and recognized by great poets such as Henri Meschonnic, Michel Butor, and Dominique Sampiero… for her collaboration on the creation of art books and book-objects as part of Leuwers’ “livres pauvres” series. Her pictorial work, her canvases, and her sculptures are true personal diaries. Her works often resemble a reaction to current events; Coco Téxèdre’s world is filled with passion, commitment, and mastery. “All of her painting is a fertile and foundational awakening. As symbols of life—sometimes intimate, sometimes biological—Coco’s works open the doors to questioning our existence. Encountering Coco’s world is an odyssey toward womanhood.”