Les Jeudis de la Villa – Catherine Meurisse: Comic strips: an art bridge between painting, philosophy, nature and literature

Catherine Meurisse is a French author and designer, trained in the graphic arts (Estienne) and decorative arts (ENSAD), after studying literature.

In 2005, she joined Charlie
Hebdo, penning political cartoons and
political cartoons and reportage
collaborating with numerous
press titles. As an illustrator for
illustrator, she mixes art, literature
art, literature, nature and humor,
nature and humor.

After Mes Hommes de lettres and
Moderne Olympia, she published
2016, she published La Légèreté
varied albums, from the bucolic Les
Grands espaces to the poetic La Jeune femme
femme et la mer.

Resident at Villa Kujoyama in
Kyoto, and at the Villa Médicis in Rome,
her work has been exhibited at the Picasso
Picasso, Delacroix or Carnavalet museums in
Paris.

First comic book author elected to the
Académie des Beaux-Arts in
Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2020, and in 2025
finalists for the Angoulême Grand Prix.

Her next album will feature
the American naturalist and thinker
Henry David Thoreau.

At the time of her election to the Académie des
Catherine Meurisse said
La Coupole is the glass bell
the glass bell that the gardener
gardener puts on a beloved plant
to protect it from the elements.
Watch it grow and grow...
even lift a corner of its glass shelter
and let its branches hang out...

It's from these different branches -
humor, art, imagination, dreams...
and, above all, freedom - that she comes to speak to us
speak to us this evening; the bridges she
between disciplines - literature, painting
painting, philosophy - the links she weaves
that she weaves with nature, where people
where we come to take refuge as much as
and recharge their batteries.

An evening like a voyage of discovery
discover this land of 9th art, so rich in
rich in references, and which even today
which continues to welcome new
new graphic and pictorial experiences
and pictorial experiences, whether intimate or spectacular.

The evening includes :
- champagne reception on the Villa patio
- thematic conference
- dinner at Restaurant Béatrice prepared by our chef Myriam Barda (*dining and wine pairing and a flute of champagne)