CONTINENT B

Born in 1954 in Paris.
1977 graduate of the Fine Art Institute Nicolae Grigorescu, printing department in Bucharest, Romania.

“She prints traces of the body, translates the emotion of a movement, praises the fragility of her subject.
Sylviane Canini is rooted in a classicism whose erudition and elegance is inherently appealing. In her work,
the drawing prays. An unfinished drawing, in suspension. A desire that is yet to arrive. Her figures seem to be
born under our gaze, similar to when we discover a fresco that is barely lit. “I like to hint at things,” she says.
“It allows people to dream and makes the figures universal”. Dreams that are accentuated by natural colours