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In 2019, she will be staying with Sébastien Nadin who will welcome her in his studio. Mado needs space to work on her contemporary dance technique classes. The artist dances in the morning, Nadin paints in the afternoon. He prepares his exhibition, « Painting in the digital age » at the Sorbonne (February 2020 in Paris). The dancer is present, takes part in the game and participates in the conceptualization of some of the paintings – « Life », « The magician » of S. Nadin. The motivation of the dancer to paint is born from a « mimetic desire » or passionate necessity (see René Girard, anthropologist and historian). The painter, the dancer, the creator transmits his passion for his art in an unconscious way to the visitors.

Thus, within Nadin’s workshop, Mado develops the desire to paint. It is in Bordeaux, that she launches at the time of the confinements Covid 2020-2021. She paints four works: « Pink Cat », acrylic on canvas, 2020, 60 x 73 cm / « Dream on oneself and look today », acrylic on wood, 2020, (fresco), « Of permanence in impermanence », acrylic on canvas, 2020, 60 x 73 cm « Rabbits, cats and Moon », acrylic on wood, 2020, (fresco).

Nadin and Mado continue their collaboration and make together three paintings « L’Enfance n°1 and n°2 »,
« As Rabbit and Cat » are part of the collection Gamme Enfant specially created for L’Exposition de Poche. Spontaneity and common passion for art, beauty and feeling, the two artists continue their duo. Dance is often represented in painting; there is a real symbiosis and a fruitful cooperation between the two artistic mediums.

Already with the antiquity, paintings on the dance movement appear on the potteries in Strike. With Degas (impressionist-realist painter) whose dance is the subject of study. Then, modernism, with Matisse and Fauvism, we note here, that the paintings realized by Mado are mainly inspired by this last artistic movement which places the dance in the heart of the work of research on the gesture and the space (see the painting  » Éponyme « ).

Mado is also interested in the work of Paul Klee, she particularly likes the painting « Dance under the influence of fear », typically Bauhaus, which presents twelve dancing forms. This work seems to pay homage to a practice (dance) that has not ceased to animate humanity since its origins.

Finally, the new painter knows the history of dance and its link with that of painting. Mado has a passion for the Swedish Ballet who called upon the painter Fernand Léger for the sets of « The Creation of the World ». Picasso, Cocteau and many others worked closely with the choreographers and dancers. Therefore, we can imagine that Mado’s meeting with the painter Sébastien Nadin was singular. To highlight the common points: looks, space, movement, rhythm is to understand what brought these two artists together throughout their cooperation.

His last two creations, « Investigation of pure desire », acrylic on canvas, 2022 and « Lapins fantastiques », acrylic on wood, 2021 were exhibited at the Exposition D’ART at the Pavillon du Verdurier in Limoges from February 15 to 22, 2022.