Caroline Chariot-Dayez
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Caroline Chariot-Dayez is a Belgian
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 hyperrealistic painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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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 Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir...

, 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 Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

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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

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