Courtyard & Garden Collection
Director: Jacques Cauda
I remember my first encounter with the theatre, The CidCorneille, staged at the Comédie Française; a school trip, I was 13 years old. To show that I didn't belong to that world but to that of the Parisian suburbs, to the projects, as we say today, I had made a device designed to dazzle, a kind of photographic flash that blinded the actor! I'll let you imagine the rest…
But… a miracle! That very day I understood that theater was for everyone, for all worlds, even for my own, which had been unaware of it, for the Visible as well as the Invisible, for the living as well as the dead. That is why I am creating this collection; and to prolong this moment, that is to say, these two hours spent stage left and stage right, in perpetual presence through the voice of the page. Long live the collection! Courtyard & Garden !
Jacques Cauda
Jacques Cauda, born in Saint-Mandé on July 9, 1955, is a French painter, writer, poet, publisher, photographer and documentary filmmaker.
Alongside his philosophy studies, he pursued training as a filmmaker. From 1978 onwards, he directed around thirty documentaries for French, Algerian and Canadian television.
In 1998, he interrupted his career as a documentary filmmaker to begin painting. He created a new pictorial movement: the hyperfigurative movement, the outlines of which he presented in a manifesto "All the Light on the Figure", published by Ex Aequo, 2009.
“To superfigure,” he writes, “is to take as an object sensations whose source is no longer reality.”
but its retinal representation.
The world has become an image, and to paint it is to rewrite that image. This is why he most often uses oil pastels, which have the unique characteristic of being practiced like writing on a sheet of paper. In this way, he reconnects with the ancient ut pictura poesis: painting is also poetry.
Jacques Cauda also manages the collections Blue-Turquin And Resonances
Quarterly publications
from July 1, 2025
