Virginie Le Touze was born in 1969 in Nice, where she lives and works. Videos, photographs, performances, and installations are mixed in his works on a palette of poetry, memories, quotations, allusions to black and white cinema, cabaret, music hall and love songs. Generally speaking, whatever the medium adopted, Virginie Le Touze’s work is extremely meticulous and precise. And this method implies the need to redo a large number of times, until obtaining the structural effects through which the artist proposes his universe of a poignant and distanced onirism. The themes of Virginie Le Touze’s art have the charm of the obvious, treating all registers, from the popular to the lyrical. It is the most essential things in life that drive his inspiration.
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Virginie Le Touze, “Jardin d’épine”, 2013, mixed media, thorns
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Virginie Le Touze, “Mirettes”, 2013, Variable size, mirror engraving
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Virginie Le Touze, “Once upon a time …”, 2013, 105 x 70 cm
single print photograph, mounted on dibon
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Virginie Le Touze, “Once upon a time …”, 2013, 105 x 70 cm,
single print photograph, mounted on dibon,
Virginie Le Touze
Born on 10-09-1969, in Nice
Lives and works in Nice
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2011
Showing its night in broad daylight, Contemporary art and the French Riviera, Jean Cocteau Museum, Menton
The night of the museums, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
2010
Who’s afraid of the boy from Ipanema ?, Printemps de Septembre, gGalerie Kandler, Toulouse
2009
Obsession Lucioles, Festival Indisciplines, Nice
Hyperchansond’A. two voices, Halles de Schaerbeek, “Trouble#5”, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Videography, 17/03, Mamac auditorium, Nice
The parody, the pastiche and the caricature considering the laws of the genre, Mamac Vitrines, Nice
2007
Lettera Amorosa, Theater of Photography and Image, Nice
2005
Digestion, Mamac, Liège, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
A history of performance, Contemporary art and the French Riviera, Villa Arson, Nice
L’Elat, La Maison singulière, Nice
Show his night in broad daylight, Contemporary art and the French Riviera, Menton
Duelles, program of documentsdartistes.org , Menton
Macumba night club, Cabinet of curiosities, Nice
2010
alon de l’Auto(portrait), Atelier Soardi, Nice
2009
Popisme Episode V, Le lieu unique , Nantes
Offshore III, Castel plage, Nice
Ortolan workshop, Toulon
My darling, RLBQ Gallery, Marseille
Espace Helenbeck : I , Nice
The new sex times, Espace Helenbeck, Nice
Alleretour, RX Gallery, Paris
2007
Elective affinities, carte blanche at Vidéochroniques, Centre d’Arts Plastiques, Saint Fons
2006
Contrast, video program, Originalgallery, Monaco
September of photography, Very dear flesh, Espace Helenbeck, Nice
2005
Vidéochroniques, Marseille
2003
Donkey Skin 3, Soardi Gallery, Nice
Open House, Casino, Luxembourg
2002
Gallery night, Espace Giletta, Nice
2000
Cravero Gallery, Le Pradet
1999
Le Camus Gallery, Le Pradet
PERFORMANCE
2011
European Museum Night, MAC/VAL : Angry with the boy from Ipanema, Vitry-sur-Seine
2010
Radio FMR, broadcast “Radio du bout de la nuit”, “Printemps de Septembre”, interview sung with Jean-Yves Jouannais, Toulouse,
Kandler Gallery, “Printemps de Septembre” : Who’s afraid of the boy from Ipanema, Toulouse
2009
Castel Plage, “Offshore III” : Ouba Ouba, Nice
Halles de Schaerbeek : “Hors Piste” : Hyperchansond’A. with two voices, Brussels
2008
The parody, the pastiche and the caricature, taking into account the laws of the genre, February 29, 2008, Mamac, Nice
2007
Poets’ springtime, Nice
2005
Digestions, Memory and Transmission, Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium
2004
Viaduc, Frac Paca, participation in a performance by Eric Duyckaerts and Joseph Mouton, Marseille
OTHER PRODUCTIONS, AIDS, ACQUISITIONS
2006
Individual aid for creation, Drac Paca
VIDEOS
2006
Hyperchanson d’Amour, 23 minutes
2005
Fir tree, 3’14”
2004
Euphorbia Milii Spendens, 8’32”
2003
Insomnia, 5′.
2002
Pantomine, 54′.
About Diane, 1′.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
COLLECTIVE CATALOGS
2011
Yellow pages of Code de Nuit, Paris
A form for any action, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, 2010
Popisme, Episode V, published by Le Lieu Unique, scène nationale de Nantes, 2010
2005
Digestion, MAMAC edition, Liège, 2005
2002
Open House, text by Claire Noesen, Casino Luxembourg, 2002
Peau d’Ane, Soardi Gallery edition, 2002
PRESS ARTICLES, MAGAZINES
2010
Verso Arts et Lettres n°53, “Suivre une Luciole”, Sophie Braganti, May 11, 2010
2009
La Strada, June 2 to 14, 2009
Nice Matin, May 14, 2009
2007
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Je suis bouleversé (P. 38, 149), (essay) éditions Semiose, Paris,
Nice Matin, text L.B, March 6, 2007
2003
Sophie Braganti, in Verso Arts et Lettres, n° 31, July 2003, editions Cercle d’Art, 2003
Georges Bertolino, in Nice Matin, March 30, 2003
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SCHOOLS, TRAINING
2002
DNSEP, Villa Arson, Nice
Virginie Le Touze: artist documents
Let the birds die
Sandra D. Lecoq and Virginie Le Touze
Exhibition from June 28 to September 1, 2013
Opening on June 28, 2013
