Damien Valero
Encyclopedia
Damien Valero is a French mixed media
visual artist
and professor of art and space through a partnership between Georgia Tech
Paris Program USA, and l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette
. His work is within the National Collection of France, and he exhibits throughout Europe and abroad.
Studies :
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004 Galerie Fah, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2003 Galerie Hexagone, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.
2002 Galerie Fah, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2001
2000
1998 Atlanta Atrium, Georgia Tech, U.S.A.
1993 Académie Charpentier, Paris, France.
1992 Foyer International du Ministère de l’Education Nationale, Paris, France.
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004 Galerie Contrast, Barcelona, Spain.
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1997
1996
1994
1993
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
visual artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and professor of art and space through a partnership between Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
Paris Program USA, and l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette
The École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette is a public tertiary school located in Paris, France. It is placed under the supervision of the ministry for the Culture and the Communication...
. His work is within the National Collection of France, and he exhibits throughout Europe and abroad.
Style
Damien Valero assembles the body through fragments produced with mixed-media techniques: video, volume, numbered photographs, or soundscapes. He organizes a course where the viewer can turn around installations, scenes that evoke sacred rituals reconfigured: variations around the navel, hands and feet molded around an imaginary banquet, an altar to Saint Agatha. The body also becomes an architectural element. The artist immerses the viewer in a reflection on the envelope that surrounds us, the city walls, the skin of things, the bark of beings. By organizing absences, voids in the representations, he pushes the viewer to reinvent the body of which there remains only fragments, blasts, texts, postures, organic signs.Training
Damien Valero passed the entry competition at Arts déco at age 23. Once admitted, he gravitated towards the printed image. Peter Keller encouraged him to pass the competition for l'Atelier national de recherche typographique. There he met Jean Widmer.Studies :
- 1995 : École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
- 1996 : Masters Degree in Visual Arts, Paris 1 Panthéon la Sorbonne
- 1997 : Atelier national de recherche typographique
- DEA en arts plastiques et sciences de l’art, Paris 1 Panthéon la Sorbonne
Influences
- Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
- Gerhard RichterGerhard RichterGerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in...
- Anselm KieferAnselm KieferAnselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
- Eric Aupol
- Xavier Zimmermann
- Marie Legros
- Daniel and Geo Fuchs
Expositions
2010- Galerie La Ruelle, Brussels, Belgium.
- Saffir Galerie Nomade, Marseille, France.
- Official programming project for Nuit Blanche Paris 2010,
- Mois de la photo OFF, Paris, France.
- Art-cité, Fontenay-sous-bois, France.
- Centre d’art contemporain Bouvet- Ladubay, Saumur, France.
- Portrai la galerie Paris
2009
- Exposition ESPACE K paris, novembre décembre 2009, next exhibition ESPACE K Paris, November December 2009,
- Espace culturel Kiron, Paris, France.
- Parcours d’art contemporain, Ville de Vincennes, France (en préparation, septembre 2009).
- Galerie SAFFIR, Marseille, France (novembre 2009).
2008
- Journée du patrimoine, « le patrimoine comme support pour l’art contemporain »
- CNAM/la philotechnique, Bois-Colombes, France.
- Mois de la photo off, Paris, France
2007
- Espace d’art contemporain du pays de Lorient, Pont-Scorff, France.
- Culture en Fac, Faculté des Lettres et des sciences humaines de Limoges, France.
2006
- Espace culturel Kiron, Paris, France.
- Mois de la photo OFF, Paris, France.
2004 Galerie Fah, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2003 Galerie Hexagone, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.
2002 Galerie Fah, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2001
- Galerie Solers, Sofia, Bulgarie.
- Club-Med World, Galerie Ars in Fine, Paris, France.
2000
- Europa Akademie, Witten, Germany.
- Maison de Provence, Dortmund, Germany.
1998 Atlanta Atrium, Georgia Tech, U.S.A.
1993 Académie Charpentier, Paris, France.
1992 Foyer International du Ministère de l’Education Nationale, Paris, France.
Group exhibitions
2009- Riff Art Project, Strasbourg, France.
- L’estampe contemporaine, Fondation Prépart, Paris, France.
- Contemporary works of art acquisitions, Ville de Vincennes, France.
- Art Papers, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
- SETAN, Tokyo, Japan.
- NAK, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.
2008
- Galerie SAFFIR, Aix-en-Provence, France.
- IAS SHOW video and contemporary photography, Cannes, France.
- EUROP'ART Geneva, Switzerland.
- BERLINER LISTE 08 – BERLIN, Germany.
- L’art au fil de l’eau, galerie la Glycine, Belgium.
- LINEART GENT 2008, Belgium.
2007
- Rencontres photographiques, galerie le lieu, Lorient, France.
2006
- Centre d’art contemporain Bouvay Ladubay, Saumur, France.
2005
- Galerie Back Lane, Aix la Chapelle, Germany.
- Galerie Episodique, Paris, France.
- VISUART, AAEENSAD, tribunal du commerce, Paris, France.
- Centre d’art contemporain Bouvay Ladubay, Saumur, France.
2004 Galerie Contrast, Barcelona, Spain.
2003
- Galerie Nusser et Baumgart, Munich, Germany.
- Artedomus, Vincennes, France.
2002
- Galerie Racines et l’Œil, Brussels, Belgium.
- Manoir de Kerlut, Bretagne, France.
- Galerie Ars in Fine, Paris, France.
- Du Signe à la Signification, Saint-Ouen l’Aumone, Galerie Namy-Caulier, France.
2001
- Domaine de Madame Elisabeth, Versailles, France.
2000
- Galerie Soho, La Haye, Netherlands.
- Galerie d’Art, Vincennes, France.
- Galerie Artitude, Paris, France.
- Galerie Peinture Fraîche, Paris, France.
- Musée des Arts Décoratifs Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico.
1999
- Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
1997
- Galerie Re, Paris, France.
1996
- Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
1994
- Fondation Paul Ricard pour l’art contemporain, ENSAD, Paris France.
1993
- Festival Sens à Voir, Pantin, France.
Artistic salons
- Art-Paris, Paris
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Collections
- Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- Fond d’art contemporain, ville de Vincennes, France
- Artothèque de la ville d’Hennebont, France.
- Groupe Palladium, Milan, Paris, Dallas.
Publications
- 2007 : Le Monde 2, rencontres internationales photographiques. L’art à l’Ouest, octobre 2007
- Art presse Magazine
- Beaux arts magazine
- Ouest France
- 2005 : "Fragments et figures", Lionel Dax
- 2002 : Aachener Zeitung
- 2001 : Radio France Culture
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- 1994 : Le journal des Arts décoratifs