{"id":80875,"date":"2023-03-13T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2023.eva-vautier.com\/portfolio-item\/francois-paris\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:47:59","slug":"francois-paris","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/eva-vautier.com\/en\/portfolio-item\/francois-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fran\u00e7ois Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Torn between contrary impulses, but which he does not seek to unify, Fran\u00e7ois Paris deploys a singular and offbeat universe.<\/p>\n

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The artist plays on the interstices of time, the off-camera, the sentimental disillusions and misunderstandings, between images and words, the poetic mise en abyme, dark and without answer, but where the absurdity of existence prevails. Mixture of hope and derision, it leads us to question ourselves on the real futility of our modern lives, a frantic race to chaos, a dark farce that we do not want to see for an immediate enjoyment, instantaneous and without real tomorrow. An impulse towards the worst in a happy melancholy.<\/p>\n

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These drawings are usually executed in grey pencil and criterium on relatively small sheets of paper and presented in a cloud, however he has also been making larger formats since 2012.<\/p>\n

Scene of life, sometimes absurd, family photos, propaganda, worried characters, faces erased, uncertain place imprinted with austerity, incongruous objects, strange interpretations make us fall into the ineffable disaster, through the prism of old slides found, stale images available on the Internet, old forgotten memory cards, the artist takes it to confront us with a kind of precise decomposition of the soul or what is left…<\/p>\n

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Playing the card essentially of the black and white and a little color, without having any real stylistic preoccupation he draws, as he explains, everything and nothing at the same time, but all the time and everywhere!<\/p>\n

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This allows him in his programmed wandering, to perceive the contours of disillusionment. Stopping the narrative momentum, he deconstructs the primary meaning of the initial image by reorganizing it through a particular cutting or framing and creating new meanings. (…)<\/p>\n

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M. F, 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Paris
\nBorn in 1975<\/p>\n

Lives and works in Nice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

La conjoncture du hasard,<\/em> \u00c9va Vautier Gallery, Nice.<\/p>\n

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2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Villa Cameline<\/em>, Nice<\/p>\n

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2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Les surfaces du vide<\/em>, Renoir Gallery and Castle Gallery, Nice<\/p>\n

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2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

The area<\/i>, Nice<\/p>\n

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2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mars at the Museums,<\/em> photographs and installations, Mus\u00e9e des beaux arts, Nice<\/p>\n

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With pleasure 2,<\/em> Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice.
\nNopoto, <\/em>Mixed materials, Nice.
\nLife is a movie, <\/em>Au 109 Ben. Nice.
\nIan Curtis likes this place, <\/em>Villa Cam\u00e9line, Nice.
\nRoad Movie, <\/em>Caisse d’\u00e9pargne, Nice.
\nDrawing Now, <\/em>Art fair, Paris.
\nMobile Home, <\/em>Municipal Art Schools, Vitry-sur-Seine.<\/p>\n

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2018<\/strong>
\nFran\u00e7ois Paris \/ G\u00e9rald Panighi<\/em>, SAJ exhibition, Nice.<\/p>\n

Nopoto, <\/em>Mixed materials, Nice.
\nVom Winde verweht, <\/em>Berlin.
\n100 titles,<\/em> Bel oeil, Nice.<\/p>\n

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2017<\/strong>
\nKunstschorle, <\/em>Projektraum Ventilator 24, Berlin.<\/p>\n

Show me the way, <\/em>Hotel Windsor, Nice.<\/p>\n

The utopian cabinet, <\/em>Villa Cam\u00e9line, Nice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Public lighting, <\/em>the 109, Nice.<\/p>\n

Imago Mundi, <\/em>_ Fondazione Luciano Benetton, Italy.<\/p>\n

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2016<\/strong>
\nThe Ideal Palace of strange egos, <\/em>Ch\u00e2teau de Hauterives, Hauterives.<\/p>\n

Prefiguration of strange egos, <\/em>Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice.<\/p>\n

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2015<\/strong>
\nAldebaran” Art Center, Montpellier.
\nTribe, <\/em>Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice.<\/p>\n

A year <\/em>from now, Eva Vautier Gallery. Nice.
\nUn printemps \u00e0 Anvers, <\/em>Galerie Daniel Bo\u00e9ri, Monaco.<\/p>\n

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2014<\/strong>
\nAldebaran” Art Center. Montpellier.
\nExquisite corpse at the beach, <\/i>Projektraum Ventilator 24, Berlin.
\nI write therefore I am,<\/i> Ben, La Station & guests, Centre d’art Le Garage, Brive.<\/p>\n

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2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Late harvest<\/em>, Martagon Gallery, Malauc\u00e8n<\/p>\n

Shadows and lights<\/em>, UMAM Nice.<\/p>\n

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2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be another<\/i>, Espace \u00e0 d\u00e9battre, Nice<\/p>\n

The brain<\/em>, Space to discuss, Nice<\/p>\n

\u00c9chapp\u00e9e belle<\/em>, Daniel Bo\u00e9ri Gallery, Monaco<\/p>\n

Evening visitors<\/em>, Draft – Reisefieber, Nice<\/p>\n

La Vitrine<\/em>, La Scala Palace, Monaco<\/p>\n

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2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

ryhm\u00e4n\u00e4ytelly<\/em>, Macumba night club, Nice.<\/p>\n

La Menuiserie<\/em>, Nice<\/p>\n

Supervues 2011<\/em>, 3 days at the Burrhus Hotel, Vaison la Romaine<\/p>\n

Que sera, sera<\/em>, Art Center, Neuch\u00e2tel, Switzerland<\/p>\n

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2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are all photographers now!, <\/em>Mus\u00e9e de l’Elys\u00e9e, Lausanne, Switzerland<\/p>\n

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2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carpentry<\/em>, Nice<\/p>\n

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2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democratic Cabinet<\/em>, Villa Cameline, Nice<\/p>\n

We are all photographers now!, <\/em>Mus\u00e9e de l’Elys\u00e9e, Lausanne, Switzerland<\/p>\n

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2006<\/strong><\/p>\n

Avatars<\/em>, Atelier Soardi & le Labo, Nice<\/p>\n

Eccentricities<\/em>, Atelier Soardi & le Labo, Nice<\/p>\n

Made in Cannes<\/em>, video installation, Cannes<\/p>\n

Neurotic cabinet<\/em>, Villa Cameline, Nice<\/p>\n

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2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

Low Tech 1<\/em>, Villa Arson, Nice<\/p>\n

Hypegallery photo, <\/em>Rencontres d’Arles, Arles<\/p>\n

Vinyl<\/em>, Villa Cameline, Nice<\/p>\n

Erotic cabinet<\/em>, Villa Cameline, Nice<\/p>\n

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2004<\/strong><\/p>\n

City Hall<\/em>, The Disappearance, Nice<\/p>\n

And the other one who thinks he’s a genius, when it’s me<\/em>, Nice<\/p>\n

Young artists around Louis Br\u00e9a<\/i>, IPAG, Nice<\/p>\n

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2003<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mars of contemporary art<\/em>, video installation, Clermont-Ferrand<\/p>\n

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2002<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Art Fair, Esca Gallery, N\u00eemes<\/p>\n

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2001<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nice attack to lose<\/em>, La Station, Toulouse<\/p>\n

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2000<\/strong><\/p>\n

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