Charlotte De Cock

Actor

Biography

Charlotte was born and raised in Antwerp. She started painting intensively in 2007, originally self-portraits but now she’s expanding her repertoire with many themes among which, for example, a series of ‘Marie – Antoinettes’ and ‘Musketeerswomen’. She’s inspired by film, music and literature, which you can find in her titles. They always refer to a song or film, and of course the whole Marie-Antoinette series is inspired by the film ‘Marie-Antoinette’ by Sofia Coppola. Martin Schmitt from Gallery DiMeo (Paris, France) referred to her work as ‘Rock – Baroque’. Charlotte’s work was and is to be seen at many places in the city, for example in the clothing shop ‘Veste’ in Antwerp , Pascale Maselis and Frank Van Laer’s at Leopoldstraat. Recently also in the restaurant, De Godevaart … where you can have an amazing dinner looking at the happy and colorful Marie-Antoinette’s. As well as under a modern one in Basserie Lids on the nice square Veemarkt. Her 2009 Rock-Barok exhibition at Frank Van Laer’s was a big success, it was a splendid combination of Frank Van Laer’s beautiful showroom and Charlotte’s romantic paintings. She participated to a project of gallery ARTRA which was about personalizing your own coffin, Charlotte made one for Willemijn Van Dommelen. The coffin was to be seen in newspapers and on ATV. Recently she’s also worked on a series of Antwerp artists, she has already made portraits of among which, Luc Tuymans, Fred Bervoets and Rachel Agnew. Charlotte is a young, energetic lady with a broad fascination; psychology, music, history, film and lots of other things intrigue her.

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