By Mylène Vignon, Art Critic, Expert in Contemporary Art
One must believe that her studies in philosophy opened the fields of the possible for her, this freedom that she expresses from canvas to canvas. The astonishing chromatic work reveals the rich journey of a nomadic life. Born in France, CYB grew up in New Caledonia. The contrasts of tropical colors were quite naturally imprinted in her work.
Then came Carthage, its jasmine perfumes, its bougainvilleas and a beautiful encounter, at fourteen, with the copyist Ali Mourani who initiated her to the discovery of Vermeer and Van Gogh.
It was at the age of seventeen, upon returning to Paris, that she would meet Georges Mathieu, introduced by a collector friend.
A revelation! She would meet him regularly over several years at a pace of once or twice a year. His comments about her research would be the open door to great fields of total freedom.
Mathieu wrote for her with a quill:
For Cybèle, admirable exegete of lyrical abstraction, with the admiration of Georges.
The energy deployed in her works, the relationship of colors to one another, the tenacity she expresses in her determination since her youngest age to be a painter at all costs — so many markers of a fine quality of work.
Gestural, she loves to express herself on large canvases; her format of ease.
This beautiful theory of lyrical abstraction would quite naturally lead her to approach the theme of Venice in 2010. A Venice that she reappropriates with the colors of her memory on atypical formats; the half-diptych.
In 2011, she received the Golden Canvas trophy of the year from the Federation of French Culture for her painting: Chant.
Then would come the Kyoto series; a form of pictorial meditation. She creates paintings based on her imagination according to her readings. The poetic breath contained in the imagination is very real.
"Only our dreams are true," says the prophet.
When I ask her what her artistic wish would be, Cyb answers me with stars in her eyes: I would love to create opera sets!
So... why not the Opera?
In the meantime, Cyb will exhibit in the summer of 2013 in Osaka her two canvases: Kyoto Omega and Kyoto Gamma.