FACING ANY SURFACE, A DREAM OF DEPTH
François Réau
Opening reception: Thursday, 1 February from 5 to 8pm
Exhibition: January 27, 2017 – March 13, 2018
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FRANÇOIS RÉAU
Facing any surface, a dream of depth
Exhibit : February 1st to March 13th, 2018
Opening: Thursday February 1st, 5 to 9 pm
For his first solo exhibit at the gallery, François Réau is showing a selection of lead pencil drawings on paper, a prolongation of his research around drawing and landscape.
With the landscape as spatial element, and its processes of transformation, as sources of reflection, François Réau’s work is defined by his questioning around man and nature. The themes of temporality, of the fragility of human life and the unsayable remain ever present. A reflection on being and becoming inherent to his work induces in the viewer a feeling of immersion involving all of her/his senses, particularly when dealing with large formats. The drawing in its vastness escapes its support, leaching into and invading the space of the exhibit, taking on a three dimensional quality when the artist attempts to exceed the limits of his medium. Symptomatic of his desire to go beyond the notion of drawing in a classical understanding of the term, the line, as primary element of the medium, becomes emancipated and expends into the space of the exhibit, thus granting the drawing the possibility to offer a spatiotemporal frame for an experience of visual reflection.
Drawings and installations are the main forms of the work of François Réau, multidisciplinary artist, whose recent pieces were shown in the context of the Lille3000, of Mons European Culture Capital 2015, and at the Toulon and Menton Art Museum. His work deals with the principle of the appearing and disappearing of figures and motifs, at the very core of the materials. Finalist for the “Talents Contemporains” awards of the François Schneider Foundation at Wattwiller in 2015 and 2016, he has participated both in solo shows and collective exhibits in France and abroad (London, Brussels, Turin, Beijing). One of his recent installations was presented at the Palais de Tokyo in 2016 and he has just finished a six-week research and creation residency with the French Embassy in Australia. His resulting works will be exhibited there, in Melbourne, in April 2018.
François Réau, born 1978, lives and works near Paris, in Pantin.
FRANÇOIS RÉAU
Born in 1978, France.
Lives and works in Pantin, France
SOLO SHOW
2018
At any surface, a dream of depth, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
Sous l’orage de roses, la nuit est éclairée d’épines. Commission : J. Canete & N. Hecker.
Cloitre du Domaine de la Lance, Concise, Switzerland (May)
Draw, Alliance Française de Melbourne, Australia (April)
2017
Toute personne qui tombe a des ailes, Centre d’Art Les Quinconces-L’espal, Le Mans,
France
2016
Outre Paysages, Espace d’Art Contemporain de Mourenx, France
Nuages, DDessin 2016, Atelier Richelieu, Paris, France
2015
Lille3000. Renaissance. Musée du château de Flers, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Espace d’art contemporain Lasécu, Lille, France
2013 La forme précise du rêve, Galerie Felli. Paris, France
2012 Hétérotopies, Lyon, France
2010 Traversées, La Laverie, Centre d’Art Contemporain. La Ferté Bernard, France
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2018
Anatomy of the fairytails, commission Natacha Ivanova, Pörnbach Contemporary,
Germany (June)
Dessiner aujourd’hui, commission Fabienne Leloup, Centre d’art Rosa Bonheur, Chevilly
Larue, France (March)
2017
The Drawing Hub, Berlin, Germany
Beyond the Map, commission : Soriana Stagnitta. Paratissima, Turino, Italy
Une île, Commission : Pauline Lisowski, le 6b, Paris Saint Denis, France
Never Give Up – Grand Prix de l’Institut, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux,
France
Matière Première, commission : Soriana Stagnitta. Gallerie Laure Roynette, Paris,
France
Dessin contemporain, commission M. Gautier & C. Luna, Abbaye Royale Moncel,
Pontpoint, France
Le 6b dessine son salon #1, commission Marie Gautier et Claire Luna, 6b, Saint Denis,
France
L’eau textile, Musée textile La Manufacture des Flandres, Roubaix, France
2016
Walk the line, Galerie Duchamp – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Yvetot, France
To what extent, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Entrelacs, Collectif Zamaken & Galerie Valerie Delaunay, Paris, France
Éclipse, Musée des Beaux Arts de Menton, France
Être(s) au monde, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève Loft 19, Paris, France
2015
Dessin contemporain, Musée d’Art de Toulon, France
Panorama / avec le FRAC Basse-Normadie. Château Guillaume le Conquérant, Falaise,
France
Parcours, Mons 2015 Capitale européenne de la Culture. Pôle Muséal Mons, Belgium
Le Kabinet du Dessin, Le Kabinet, Brussels, Belgium
2014
La Petite Collection, Commission : Ph. Piguet, C. de Bayser, A-C Guitard, Galerie White
Project. Paris, France
RN, Guoyi Art Museum – The National Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013 Paper, Thomas and Paul Gallery. London, United Kingdom
Galerie Martagon. Malaucène, France
8ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, France
2012
Parcours d’Artistes, Centre d’Art Les Passerelles. Pontault-Combault, France
Galerie Zamenhof. Milan / Château Charles V. Lecce / Palais Zenobio. Venice, Italy
Un avant goût de la Genèse, Galerie Laurent Mueller. Paris, France
2011
Traversée, Abbaye de Léhon, France
Rendez-vous, Propos d’Artistes. Commissariat : Christophe Ménager. Domaine Saint
Hillaire. Roiffé, France
RESOURCE & RESIDENCES
2018 Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France (Été 2018)
2017 FAR, Bundanon, Ambassade de France, Institut Français & Bundanon Trust, Australia
2016 Iconoclasses, Yvetot – DRAC Haute-Normandie, France
2015 lille3000. Maison Folie La Ferme d’en Haut, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
2010 La Laverie, Centre d’Art Contemporain. La Ferté Bernard, France
EDUCATION
2004
DSAA – Communication visuelle & design graphique, Ecole d’Arts Appliqués de Poitiers,
France
2001 Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Poitiers, France
PRIZES AND GRANT
2017
Finalist with To what extent. Concours 2016 Talents Contemporains – Fondation
François Schneider, France
Finalist Grand Prix de l’Institut, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
2016
Finalist avec / Land. Concours 2015 Talents Contemporains – Fondation François
Schneider, France
2015
Finalist Prix SOON & R.L.D. Éditions, Paris, France
Sélection FID PRIZE 2015 – International Drawing Competition
2013 Finalist Prix de Dessin Pierre David-Weill, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
COLLECTIONS & FUNDS
Centre d’Art Contemporain La Laverie, La Ferté Bernard, France
Ville de Mourenx, France
MEDIA / PRESS / CATALOGUES
Film
Toute personne qui tombe a des ailes, produced by Catherine Mary Houdin, March 2017
Television
FRANCE 3, 19/20 édition du 6 march 2017
Radio
FRANCE CULTURE, Les Carnets de la création d’Aude Lavigne, 5 April 2017
Books
Douce Quenn, texte d’Armand Dupuy publié aux éditions A/Over, 2015
Exhibition catalog
Humanité(s). Gallery Suzanne Tarasieve Loft 19, Paris, 2016
Parcours 40. Mons 2015 Capitale européenne de la Culture. Pôle Muséal, Mons, 2015
Le Kabinet du Dessin – Le Kabinet, Brussels, February 2015
La Petite Collection -Espace CO2 / Galerie White Project, December 2014
Parcours d’Artistes. Centre d’Art Les Passerelles. Pontault-Combault, November 2014
Parcours d’Artistes. Centre d’Art Les Passerelles. Pontault-Combault, November 2012
Rendez-vous – Propos d’Artistes, June 2011
65ème Réalités Nouvelles, April 2011
Publications (selection)
Art Absolument n°81, Tom Laurent, January 2018
Art Absolument n°77, «Dessin nouvelle génération», Tom Laurent, May 2017
artension 139 – Portrait, Cartographe du rêve par Charlotte Waligora, September – October 2016
ArtsHebdo | Médias « François Réau – La forme précise du rêve », November 2013
Now Then Magazine –issue 56 – Sheffield , UK, November 2012
PARK Art Magazine #02 – P 74-77, March 2011
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