Gilles Miquelis
Living to death
“Smokers are at the crossroads of the documentary. Filled with ease, full of self-satisfaction, to the point of becoming flammable! Borrowed directly from a 19th century painting, they are faces of angels, from a casting of young first ones.
Watching them surround themselves with delight with multiple volutes of smoke, the “gang of the lit ones” is the archetype of innocence, vitality and future all traced!
Here the child obviously takes power in order to probably go up in smoke himself… A kind of striptease, the pictorial story of a contemplative who shows what he has stolen from the daily life, at the moment when the ordinary merges with the extraordinary. »
Biography
Born in 1976. Lives and works in Nice
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
2014
Galerie Hélène Jourdan Gassin, Nice
2011
Ragots d’humanité, La conciergerie, dans le cadre de la manifestation « L’art contemporain et la côte d’azur”, Nice
2010
Dimanche, Galerie Sintitulo, Mougins
Galerie Aminiart, Monaco
2009
Galerie Arkos, Clermont-Ferrand
2007
Ailleur, Galerie Norbert Pastor, Nice
2006
Galerie L’atelier, Monaco
Galerie Arkos, Clermond Ferrand
Galerie Aminiart, Monaco
2005
Humanité, Galerie 14, Paris
2004
Galerie Arkos, Clermont Ferrand
Nous autre, Galerie 14, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Formats raisin, Galerie Martagon, Malaucène
Impression d’atelier, la création contemporaine sur la Côte d’Azur, CIAC, Carros
Art fair Athina, Galerie Laureen Thomas, Athènes, Grèce
2015
Galerie Martagon, Malaucène
A une année lumière, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
2014
Dernières acquisitions, MAMAC, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice
Mur, Mur, Galerie Martagon, Malaucène
Quand même .., Galerie le 22, Nice
Zootropie, Galerie le 22, Nice
Galerie Laureen Thomas, Cagnes sur Mer
Galerie Phillipe Jourdan Gassin, Nice
Formats raisin, Galerie Martagon, Malaucène
2013
Bonjour Monsieur Matisse, rencontre(s), MAMAC, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice
Art fair Athina, Galerie Laureen Thomas, Athènes, Grèce
Art fair Bruxelles, Galerie Laureen Thomas, Belgique
2012
La menuiserie, Nice
A l’origine Nice, Galerie Malborough, Monaco
2011
Ici Nice, Les Abattoirs Chantier Sang Neuf, Nice
La conciergerie, dans le cadre de la manifestation « L’art contemporain et la côte d’azur », Nice
2010
Group show, Galerie Rdf, Nice
Phase zéro, Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris
Galerie Aminiart, Monaco
2009
So feucking french, Soff, Londres, Royaume Uni
Galerie Norbert Pastor, Nice
Galerie Arkos, Clermont Ferrand
Galerie lj Beaubourg, Paris
Art Elysée, Paris
2007
Galerie lj Beaubourg, Paris
Dessine moi un…, Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris
Slick, Foire d’art contemporain, Paris
UMAM Union Méditerranéenne d’Art Contemporain, Nice
French touche, Villa Tamaris, la Seyne sur mer
Galerie Arkos, Clermont Ferrand
2006
Galerie Norbert Pastor, Nice
2005
Espace Julio Gonzales, Arceuil
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Impression d’ateliers, La création contemporaine sur la Côte d’Azur, Patrick Boussu, Jean-Michel Sordello, Michel Franca, volume 2, Edition South Art, Nice, 2015
2014
Biennale UMAM, 65 artistes contemporains du bassin Méditerranéen, Château musée Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer, 2014
2013
Bonjour M. Matisse ! Rencontres, Mamac, Ville de Nice, 2013
2012
A l’origine Nice, Malbourough Monaco, 2012
2007
French touche, Villa Tamaris centre d’art, La Seyne-sur-Mer, 2007
Gilles Miquelis
Vivre à en crever
January 14 to March 4, 2017
“Smokers are at the crossroads of the documentary. Filled with ease, full of self-satisfaction, to the point of becoming flammable! Borrowed directly from a 19th century painting, they are faces of angels, from a casting of young first ones.
Watching them surround themselves with delight with multiple volutes of smoke, the “gang of the lit ones” is the archetype of innocence, vitality and future all traced!
Here the child obviously takes power in order to probably go up in smoke himself… A kind of striptease, the pictorial story of a contemplative who shows what he has stolen from the daily life, at the moment when the ordinary merges with the extraordinary.”