Lives and works in the Landes de Gascogne Forest.
Sculpts both space and materials. His gaze extends far, both over the material elements that shape a territory and the symbolic elements that allow humans to inhabit it. The artist maintains a close connection with nature, particularly the Landes forest where he lives. He collects and carves wood to create anthropomorphic totemic works as well as painted masks with animal-like contours, designed to be handled. Visitors can then let themselves be inhabited by the spirit of the animal, as a continuation of an ancestral rite.
Public Collections
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2024 – 1% Lycée-Collège du Barp (33), France
1% Collège de Saint-Herblain (44), France -
2023 – Frac-Méca, Bordeaux, France (acquisition by Friends of Frac-Méca Nouvelle Aquitaine)
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2021 – Abrakadabracommedescastors, Cabane Georgina, Marseille, France (curator: Jeremy Chabaud, Jeune Création)
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2019 – Les Métamorphoses de Champey, Le Vent des Forêts, Dompcevrin, France
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2014 – La Porte des Titans, Val de Garonne Agglomération, Le Mas d’Agenais, France
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2013 – La Sauveté de Garbachet, La Forêt d’Art Contemporain, Broca-les-Forges, France (curator: Didier Arnaudet)
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2011 – Der Pelikan von Baumburg, Altenmarkt an der Alz, Germany
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2009 – 1%, Banque d’Accueil, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Bayonne, France
1%, Protocole d’Évaluation Dynamique, Collège de Linxe, France -
2002 – Muzeul de Artă Comparată, Sîngeorz-Băi, Romania
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1993 – FRAC Aquitaine, France
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Monument aux Morts pour la France, Bas-Mauco (40), France
Grants
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2023 – Fonds d’Œuvres et d’Archives, ADAGP
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2021 – Ekphrasis Grant, text by Charlotte Cosson, ADAGP / AICA-France / Le Quotidien de l’Art
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2015 – Artist Mobility Grant, Région Aquitaine, France
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2010 – Artist Mobility Grant, Région Aquitaine, France
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1990 – Artist Studio Setup Allowance, France
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1989 – Individual Creation Grants, France
Bibliography
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2012 – Philippe Régnier, Cent 1%, Paris, Éditions du Patrimoine
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2011 – Didier Arnaudet, La Collection Jean-Jacques Lesgourgues
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2005 – Itinéraire Singulier #1, Pau, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (text by Isabelle Lassignardie, preface by Evelyne Toussaint, English translation by Maïté Pradel and Didier Machu)
Education
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1991 – DNAP (Jury Congratulations), École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France
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1993 – DNSEP, École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France
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1998 – DU, Project Design and Cultural Mediation, Université de Bordeaux III, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2024 – Les Nouveaux Ensembliers, Ô Pêcheur de Lune, Saint-Sever (curator: Béatrice Prieur)
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2022 – Artémis & la Grande-Ourse, Frac-Méca, Bordeaux (curator: Claire Jacquet)
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2018 – Masques, Galerie du Levant, Bayonne, France
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2015 – Animaux, Lycée Agricole de Mugron, France (curator: Camille de Singly)
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2013 – Seconde Nature, Espace 3, Sarlat-la-Canéda, France
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2013 – Demandez ce que vous voudrez, Galerie du Second Jeudi, Bayonne, France
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2011 – Le Trésor de la Nature, Île Nouvelle, France (curator: Guillaume Toumanian)
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2011 – Der Pelikan von Baumburg, Altenmarkt an der Alz, Germany (curator: Andreas Pitlick)
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2007 – Ferdinandeum Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
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2006 – IUFM de Mont-de-Marsan, France
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2005 – Itinéraires Singuliers #1, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France
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2004 – 2nd Sculpture Biennale, Musée Renoir – Domaine des Collettes, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
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2002 – Barrena Kultur Etxea, Ordizia, Spain
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2023 – Amitiés, Frac-Méca, Bordeaux
Arbre Démasqué, Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France (curator: Jérémy Chabaud)
En Attendant les Vagues, Labenne, France (curator: François Lousteau)
Hells-Bells, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France -
2021 – Un Été à Pissos, Pissos, France (curator: Pascal Bouchaille)
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2020 – Solarium Tournant, Biennale de l’Architecture Disparue #1, Aix-les-Bains, France
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2019 – Don’t Look at Me!, Galerie “Sorry We Are Closed”, Art Brussels, Belgium (curator: Sébastien Janssen)
Onsaemiro, Art Space Boom, Suwon, South Korea (curator: Magda Guruli)
Doucement Doucement, Archives Bordeaux Métropole, France (curator: Emmanuel Aragon)
La Mascarade du Chemin du Mauvais Pas, Cabane Georgina, Marseille, France (curator: Jeune Création)
Vaste Monde, La Villa Beatrix Enea, Anglet, France (curator: Lydia Scapini) -
2018 – Touch Wood, Galerie “Sorry We Are Closed”, Art Brussels, Belgium (curator: Sébastien Janssen)
Present, Museum Van Buuren, Brussels, Belgium (curator: Michel Van Dyck)
Opsiomasques, Fablab de Soustons (collaboration with Dylan Cote-Colisson), France
