This serie was born after the sale of a small painting called "L'appartement en face du Musee Rodin". Once I'd sold it, I missed it. I tried to recreate it, "unsuccessfully" and it became a passion for me. That was the start of the serie. I had my first group exhibition of this serie at the Galerie Montenay.

" Cathy Josefowitz belongs to this new generation that knows how to assimilate the ranging pictorial trends that went before it. Pop painting, serial painting and conceptual painting can all have belonged to a mental universe that is both passionate and cosmopolitan. Cathy has offered remarkable new combinations.

In an acrylic painted in 1993 called "L'appartement en face du Musée Rodin", Cathy has fun "redimensionning" the famous "Kiss" Rodin sculpture. Not an easy task, the painting consists, from the moment you notice the statue, of a Matisse blue, perched maliciously by a window painted in brilliant colours. Beyond the amazing blues and reds that make up the window, you can see the slightly grotesque bricks that make up the front of an anonymous, bourgeois building.

It is not a question, however, of a utterance made of didascaly but more an indisolvable dreamlike journey linked to a fantasy.   At the heart of this fantasy, somewhere between the serious and the farce, we find a large amount of tortured pictorial expression inspired by the 19 th century.   In Cathy Josefowitz's work, all of this is pretext to an irrepressible allegory, the background of which is only made up of motifs of caustic reflections that are involuntarily tragic and that describe the "human condition" that the paintbrush when touched by grace, finds difficult to hold on to even while pointing to the banks of liberty that we covet.   This painting forces us to look at many figures and figurative fragments with a feeling that will never be pure indifference or convenient abstraction. ."

Aldo ROSSELI

Via Larga exhibition, Florence.