• May 2006 - WORLD OF ART PUBLISHING - LONDON
ARTIST CONTACT, 100 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
Masters of Today Series


• November 2005 - Gallery AT6
Entente Cordiale Exhibition, London.



• July 2005
Column by Maïa de Rochefort, Art critic
Michel De Caso, artiste créateur
(not translated)

• January 2005
Column by Christian Germak, Art critic
on Michel De Caso
"Arts Gazette International"
(see n°408, 410 & 411)

• November 2004
- File of Philippe Contal*, director of the bimonthly review " Espace et Patrimoine Cathares "
N°3 - November-December 2004 : "Michel De Caso ou la Rectoversion"
* www.cathares.org
(click on one image to read the file in file .pdf with Adobe Reader)

• July 2004

Column by Alain COUDERT, Art critic : " Michel DE CASO, A different way of looking at things" -
« As in Alain Souchon's song "Les garçons ont les yeux qui brillent / Par un jeu de dupes / Voir sous les jupes des filles" (The boys have eyes that shine / Through trickery / Seeing beneath the girls' skirts), some of us may occasionally wonder " what is behind a painted picture? "»(continuation)

• June 2004
- Emission "La rue des Arts", Interview of MDC by Marie-Andrée BALBASTRE ,
R.C.F. Pays d'Aude - 103.FM Carcassonne et 98.2FM Narbonne

• September 2003
First Rectoversed Painting Performance

• September 2003
Opening of AARDCO in CARCASSONNE

 

• April-May 2003
Romanesque Abbey of CAUNES MINERVOIS
"Rectoversed painting" exhibition

 

CONFERENCE on Rectoversion

• April 2003
MDC selected and included in The Contemporary Who's Who 2002/2003,
a significant reference volume published by The American Biographical Institute.

• June 2002
- L'Echappée belle - MONTREAL
Sculptures exhibition
 

INTERVIEWS (in French)

• April 2003
MDC's interview Hassan EL OUAZZANI
artistic review from KUWAIT"Al Founou" ("The Arts")

• May 2002
- Interview by Marie-Andrée BALBASTRE
R.C.F. Pays d'Aude, 103.FM Carcassonne and 98.2FM Narbonne

• April 2002

Interview by Eric VANCON
See the interview directly

• November 2002

Interview by Annick JACQ
See the interview directly

• August 2001
- Maison Gibert - LEZIGNAN/CORBIERES
" Rectoversion or Michel De Caso's three-sided painting" by Stephanie PEREZ
« Michel De Caso paints the recto (front) and verso (back) and creates an exit between the two. He invented and patented this process in 1991. Having settled recently in our department, he has an exhibition of his work at the Maison Gibert.

But what goes on behind a painting?
Michel De Caso, without a doubt, asked himself this question. Having hung his paintings on the walls a long time, he quite simply moved them away. " Gradually I needed to show the hidden side of my paintings", he explains.

In fact, for 10 years, he has continually produced 'rectoversé' paintings. He thus paints the front and back of a painting and creates an exit point by drilling through the surface. " They are three-sided paintings. It is in fact a philosophical concept. It corresponds to our time ", confirms the artist. He adds: " the relationship between the two sides is decided upon by the onlooker. We all naturally prefer one side to the other. I associated the evolution of the woman with the back (verso) and the values male values with the front (recto). "»
Stéphanie Perez
L'Indépendant & Le Midi-Libre, Friday August 10 2001

• August 2001
- Maison Gibert - LEZIGNAN/CORBIERES
"Paintings that leave the walls" by Vincent REMY
«... In 1991, the artist presented his first 'rectoversé' paintings to the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. These paintings were specific in that both sides were painted, with holes pierced in various place. It was when he gradually moved his paintings from the wall that Michel De Caso discovered a new proposal: 'rectoversion'. A 'rectoversé' painting is made up of two sides that interact with each other and to-and-fro relationship is amplified thanks to the pierced holes that they share.

" Rectoversion thus creates an unusual relationship with painting, space generally, and the wall and as regards the perception it confers upon the onlooker...", he defines so 'rectoversion'. These original works are visible for the first time in the Aude. None of the artist's 'rectoversé' paintings are fixed on the wall in the usual way, they occupy a certain space and leave us the possibility of discovering a back which is confronted with the front. The front and the back are then looked at as complementary but never identical. And it is by looking further into the conversion of the front into back that MdC gave birth to a third element which is common to both. This third element is the vacuum created by the various holes that are drilled in the painting. The pictorial style of the works exposed is very varied. One finds coloured inspirations stamped with impressionism, expressionism and also mystical influences and metaphysics which exceed simple religious representation.»
Vincent Remy
La Dépêche du Midi, Saturday August 11 2001

• February 2001
- VILLENEUVE/LES/MONTREAL
"He paints the front and the back" by Arnaud MASSIOS
«...A newcomer to Villeneuve-Lès-Montreal having settled here only a few months ago, Michel De Caso, talented painter and sculptor has just opened his studio to the public. Thus certain privileged people have been the first to discover his works. The artist, born in Toulouse in 1956, was initially self-taught and left the South to perfect his art and an unquestionable gift for art in the capital...Here, he met the Masters and improved his technique in Paris art studios. Once he had acquired his technique, MdC resumed studies of art, to obtain a degree and visual arts diploma at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, before finally returning to the South.
Birth of a new concept :
After these years of studies and improvement, the artist's vision of art gradually altered. He was more and more interested in the hidden side of painting, and gradually moved his works away from the wall in order to paint on the back. Thus this new concept called 'Rectoversion'. 'Rectoversion' is a neologism invented by MdC in 1991. Since this date, he has painted "rectoversé" paintings...(...)...»
Arnaud Massios
La Dépêche du Midi, Monday February 5 2001

• April 1999
- Centre Alfred de Vigny - VOISINS/LE/BRETONNEUX
"Perspective and Rectoversion " - Centre Alfred de Vigny - MDC guest of honour
« The guest of honour of this edition will be the painter-sculptor from Toulouse, Michel De Caso. His originality : to paint in 'rectoversion'. He organizes a confrontation between the front and back of a painting, considered as complementary. He integrates a third element into his works, the vacuum, which he names the exit...»
Extract from the Magazine of the Syndicat d'Agglomération Nouvelle de
St-Quentin en Yvelines
Weekly from 7-20 April, 1999

« For the 1999 edition, we are happy to present, as guest of honour, an artist who is both a painter and a sculptor, who we will without a doubt hear a lot about in the future: Michel De Caso. This man, with the 'singing' accent of the Pink City (Toulouse), remained self-taught in painting and sculpture until 1978. Then, he trained in different studios and became 'Master of art' in Visual Art Degree. Michel De Caso's originality is to paint his paintings in 'rectoversion'...»
Management of the Centre Alfred de Vigny
Voisins-Le -Bretonneux, April (78), 1999
" perspective and rectoversion"

• March 1998
- Chapelle des Tanneurs - NEMOURS
"A painting worth looking at twice" by M.BARRY
« Paintings worth looking at is a familiar sight to us. There are plenty of them on the walls in all sorts of exhibitions in the region...On the other hand, paintings worth looking at twice, once for each side, is less common...
As the inventor of 'rectoversion', Michel De Caso one day wanted to know exactly what was on the other side of a painting, and that idea led him to paint the hidden side, then to perforate the painting and make both sides interconnected.
Thus the artist imagined rectoversion. Now, he first perforates the board, then paints one side and then, the other.
This way of doing things is inventive and particularly fertile in order to depict ideas with a double meaning. Some of them are esoteric, or often hermetic, where symbols are linked with one another as in a whirlwind...
So here is painting which is worth looking at more than once, especially as it is accompagnied by some excellent sculptures which also have holes...»
M.Barry
La Republique de Seine-et-Marne, Monday March 23, 1998
'Rectoversé' paintings and sculptures ",
Nemours (77)

• April 1997
- Salle des Elections - FONTAINEBLEAU
"Rectoversed paintings" by JMT BREITTMAYER
« The other weekend, people from Fontainebleau were able to see an original exhibition at the Salle des Elections, one which was chosen by the younger generation according to the organizers. What is it about?
Michel De Caso defines his painting in the following:
"In view of the wealth of the works to consider, I wondered about the visible face of a painting and also its hidden face. By tuning the painting round, I entered a totally virgin field of investigation. Instead of opposing the front (recto) and back (verso) or denying one or the other, I organised a confrontation between them. The front and back considered as reciprocal, I converted both simultaneously."
With a ' third element ', the ' vacuum' created by boring holes through the painting. The painter calls this ' the exit '. Very intello, is it not? In any case, there is mysticism in these paintings!»
JMT Breittmayer
La Republique de Seine-et-Marne, April 7 1997
'Rectoversé' Painting
Fontainebleau (77)