Antoine POUPEL

Introduction

« I started photography just before entering the school of fine arts from Le Havre in 1976, I have always felt comfortable with this medium, both at the time of the shooting, that the laboratory. As a student in the fine arts, I learned different techniques to create. It was natural that I started mixing mediums. I got my degree (DNSEP), on the subject of the relationship between photography and painting. And if I never painted directly on prints, my work is very painterly, or in connection with the history of art. Polaroid was a preferred medium during this period.

I have an iconoclastic side. We must never be satisfied with the world or ourselves, but try to make progress in its work and in its life. An artist creates his world and his world through a work, he brings his brand by transforming the "reality" that surrounds it.

I create images from obsessive elements, death, eroticism, religion, through the body (living, dead, or shown), history of art (tribute), rituals (religious, love, and manipulation).

In my work since 1982, I play with opposites. I organize meetings between the structures and the fluid between the erotic and the hidden between the macabre and enjoyment between the religious and the transgression between the mechanistic and the flesh, between the human and the animal.

From 1985 to 1998, much of my work is based on photographic monotype.

Monotype is a unique work to specifically photographic character undergoing various treatments, put on the border of photography and painting.

Monotype is in the field of photography. It is created only from the photographic technique. I consider the photographic medium as a material that I handle, mounts, enlarged, and which I explore the chemical and sensitive qualities.

Since 1995, I am interested in the electronic images, created from direct scans. The series of works called "natural history" and "Natural History skins" are created from electronic images, they mix nature and body. I often showed my capacity for processing images, the physical movement of the viewer to scan the image; I like that the viewer is sometimes lost, and asks a question :

What do I see ? »

Biography

Antoine Poupel was born in 1956 in Le Havre, France

Formation

1982 : National Certificate of Arstitic Expression.

1984-1985 : Resident at the French Academy in Rome.

1987 : Laureate of the Research and Creation Grant Léonard de Vinci for Mexico and Brazil, by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

1990 : Formation in New Technologies of Image (C.N.A.P.).

1992 : Grant of Incentive funds to the creation of the National Center for Visual Arts for the project « Portraits de Personnalités ».

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2013

Maëlle Gallery, Paris, France
Dufay/Bonnet Gallery, Paris, France
White House, Luxembourg

2012

Gallery 48, Lyon, France
Amour de l'art Gallery, Paris, France

2011

Espace 54 Gallery, Paris, France
Equestrian Theater Zingaro, Aubervilliers, France

2010

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Françoise Paviot Gallery, Paris, France

2009

White Room Gallery, AC Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Dexia, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Nexus Hall, Chanel, Tokyo, Japan
Zingaro, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong, China
Promenades photographiques, Vendôme, France
Akié Arrichi Gallery, Paris, France

2007

Equestrian Theater Zingaro, Aubervilliers, France

2006

Tokyo department store, Tokyo, Japan
A B Gallery, Paris, France

2005

Red Brick Museum of Yokohama, Japan
Kasama Nichido Museum, Ibaraki, Japan
French Institute, Tokyo, Japan

2004

A Taste of Art, New York, USA
International Center of Arts, Mois de la Photographie, Paris, France

2002

Kasama Nichido Museum, Ibaraki, Japan
Kawa Guchiko Museum, Yamanashi, Japan
Ongaku-Do, Kanazawa, Japan
Nichido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Pour Annick, Tokyo, Japan
Nichido Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan

2001

International Center of Arts, Paris, France
Galerie Nichido, Paris, France
Mois de l?image, Dieppe, France

1999

Françoise Paviot Gallery, Paris, France
History Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia

1998

Zingaro, New York, USA
Palais des Congrès, Paris, France

1997

Le Volcan, Le Havre, France
Saga, Espace Eiffel ? Branly, Paris, France
Contemporary Art Center Paul Ricard, Paris, France
Amiens University, France

1996

Equestrian Theater Zingaro, Aubervilliers, France

1994

Photographic Center of Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France

1992

Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France
International Center of Arts, Mois de la Photographie, Paris, France

1991

Contemporary Art Center, Rouen, France
Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France

1990

House of Culture, Le Havre, France

1989

Nikki Diana Marquardt Gallery, Paris, France

1988

Fine Arts Academy, Leningrad, URSS
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
French Institute of Latin America, Mexico City, Mexico

1987

House of Culture, Le Havre, France

Group exhibitions (selected)

2015

KIAF, with baudoin lebon, Seoul, South Korea
India Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, New Delhi, India

2014

Kisetsu, baudoin lebon, Paris, France