Colette Duck

Colette Duck is a Belgium painter born on November 21, 1949, from Belgian-German parents (Dresden).
As a multidisciplinary artist (painting, drawing, engraving, photography, video, sculptural effects, installation), Colette Duck's work has been developed around the themes of the physical, the chemical and the physiological transformation. 
This was first sought in the "Ondes" (Waves), paintings turning blue and red according to the wavelengths of the ambient light. Then, the "Cobalts" also turning from blue to red depending on the degree of humidity and the ambient temperature. 
After the "Thermographies" (Thermography) of the body , the dominant subject became the German-Austrian Zugspitze - Wetterstein mountain, singular in its infinitely changing atmospheric properties. This subject was even explored in its glass creations in the forges of Murano under the guidance of the master glassmaker Egidio Costantini.
== Biography ==
=== Education ===
From 1968 to 1972, Colette Duck studied painting at the ESA Ecole Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc Bruxelles, under the guidance of Jean Guiraud, Camille De Taeye and Gaston Bertrand.
=== Artistic journey ===
From 1972 to 1977, Colette Duck lived in the mountains of Carrara in Italy. 
There she frequented the artists Silvio Santini and Dominique Stroobant among others, at the S.G.F, a Carrara marble sculpture workshop in Torano.
In 1977, Colette Duck was appointed Professor at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc Bruxelles (until 2015). 
In 1981, her work served as a reference for Henri Van Lier during his conferences at the Sorbonne University - Paris and at ISELP - Brussels.
In 1981, Colette Duck received the Belgian Critics Prize (Belgian Association of Art Critics - Center for Fine Arts in Charleroi).
In 1983, she takes part to Artennis at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, organized by the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels and the ECC Antwerp 83 Tennis Tournament in Antwerp . Colette Duck was invited to sketch the tennis players in action during the tournament. An exhibition was held at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels bringing together artists who have created a work around tennis such as Valerio Adami, Pat Andrea, Pierre Cordier, Pol Mara, Jean Tinguely, Philippe De Gobert, Elias and Wittevrongel.
From 1985 to 1988, Colette Duck took over the direction of the painting studio of the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc Bruxelles, after Marthe Wéry.
From 1988 to 1991, Colette Duck was supported by the Fondation Médicis in Brussels and she stayed in Austria and Venice. Then begins the Venetian adventure, where Colette Duck meets and befriends the master glassmaker Egidio Constantini, who notably created works in symbiosis with Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst , Lucio Fontana, Paul Jenkins (painter)|Paul Jenkins, Oskar Kokoschka, Le Corbusier, Roberto Matta, Mark Tobey and André Verdet.
With Egidio Costantini, Colette Duck will experiment with light and glass by entering the Fucina degli Angeli, the Forge of the Angels, so named by Jean Cocteau. Together they will create two series of glass sculptures in the forges of Murano. These works will be part of the major retrospective dedicated to the Venetian Master "Egidio Costantini, Il Maestro dei Maestri", organized in April 1990 at the Brussels Town Hall on the Grand Place.
In 1991, she made her first major retrospective at the Espace Médicis in Brussels.
== Collections ==
Artworks of Colette Duck are collected by public institutions as the 
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
- Ministry of the French speaking Community of Belgium, 
- Crédit Communal (actual Belfius Bank)
- the National Bank of Belgium
Her works are also part of private collections in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, United States and Hong Kong. 
== Publications ==
 Colette Duck's work has been commented on and is referenced in the following works (selection)
* Colette Duck, Rétrospective 1970-1990, Espace Medicis, 1990
* L'Art et le temps: regards sur la quatrième dimension, Michel Baudson, Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium), Société des expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1984, (ISBN 2226022112 et 9782226022110)
* Egidio Costantini, Il Maestro dei Maestri, De Picasso à Fontana, les sculptures en verre des plus grands artistes du XXe siècle, Bruxelles, Espace Médicis et Espace Kiron, 1990
Category:1949 births
Category:Belgian painters