Gilles Desrozier
Introduction
Gilles Desrozier was born on November 15th 1963 in Paris.
Gilles Desrozier considers himself to be a veritable poet of the contemporary era, not only because of his subjects that respond to what people usually understand in poetry, but also because of the way he tries to break down the definition, that is to say the reason.
Not only does Gilles Desrozier reroute perception, he tackles himself to enchant it as well. His knowledge of composition and his sense of chromatic compatibility arouse a galvanic ocular excitement. His world is a world in itself, a product of the union between different layers of reality. His Inscape series is inspired by a personal experience, a childhood dream in which the forest's image absorbed him whole, body and soul. The artist drags us into his inner univere.
Gilles Desrozier's work is imbued with a muffled and resistant tension between architecture and nature but does not carry any environmental or ecological moralization. His works have their own plastic, defined by a great meticulousness and an incredible delicacy without which we could not believe his visions. He allows conflicts and accidents to confront the antithetical poles: the wall and the perspective, the in and out, the above and the below, the life and the death, the dream and the material. That is how myths are born.
“I always wanted to live parallel life. On one side, my artistic life: free in what I choose and desire. On the other side, my professional life would guarantee me a financial autarky. From my earliest childhood, fascinated by the image, I knew I had to build 'my lives' around this axis.
I am a photographer that always trained through work to all image techniques. I can tell I worked in many fields linked to photography. Printing, production, photoengraving, journalism…These jobs allowed and still allow my independency. On the artistic field I have always been well surrounded! My father was a photographer, my mother paints. I had a stepfather who was a painter and another who was a writer…
I was immersed in an artistic universe since I was a young child… Then I quickly knew I needed two essential things to consider building a world. Being really humble and not be in debt (financially) to anyone.”
Biography
Education
1988, 2000, 2006 : Médiagraph (Grafic Art School).
1987 : Ecole Estienne (Superior School of Arts and Graphic Industries).
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2016
- Origines, Retour De Voyage Gallery, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
2015
- Les 14 Etats de la Passion Amoureuses, Fotofever, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2014
- La Maison sur la Sorgue, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
2012
- Swiss Life Foundation, place Vendôme, Paris, France
- Taïss Gallery, Paris, France
2011
- Les communs du Château de Tourlaville, Cherbourg, France
- Exhibition of Alcimboldo Price, Basia Embiricos Gallery and Photo 12, Paris, France
2010
- R?pure Gallery, invited by Françoise Azambourg, New York, USA
- Galerie des ormes, invited by Patricia Dupuis (Editions Le Renard Pâle), Paris, France
2009
- Exhibition for a project to Amarrage Association, Saint-Ouen, France
2007
- Atelier René Tazé, Paris, France
2002
- La Sentinelle, Paris, France
1996
- Association Toit du monde, Paris, France
1992
- Rotonde Médiathèque, Moissy-Cramayel, France
Group exhibitions (selected)
2015
- AIPAD, with baudoin lebon, New York, USA
2013
- Art Paris Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Summa Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Madrid, Spain
- Art O?Clock, with baudoin lebon, La Défense, Paris, France
- horizon(s), baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2012
- Art Paris Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2011
- Fantômazing Stories, Amarrage Gallery, Saint-Ouen, France
- Collective exhibition with Patricia Dupuy (Editions Le Renard Pâle), Artcurial, Paris, France
- International exhibition of photographie, Dali, China
- Paris Off, Belleviloise, Paris, France
2010
- Traversée d?art, Castel of Saint-Ouen, Saint-Ouen, France
- Les Amants Ravallet, Castel des Ravallet, Tourlaville, France
2009
- Couvent de Lagoa, Lagoa, Portugal
- Salon Affordable Art Fair, with DIMA Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
- Alice, Milady, et le fantôme de l?Alhambra, Biarritz, France
- Festival Jazz aux Puces, Amarrage Gallery, Saint-Ouen, France
- Nouveaux regards, Voies Off d?Arles, Arles, France
2008
- La Raffinerie, Montreuil, France
- International exhibition of Surrealism, Coimbra, Portugal
- Arthur Bual City Hall Gallery, Amadora, Portugal
- Alice aux reflets Arthuriens, Hotel Arturo Lopez, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
2007
- La Raffinerie, lancement de la revue « la Fabrique des Icebergs » consacré à Guy Jacqmin, Montreuil, France
- Ateliers portes ouvertes, La Raffinerie, Montreuil, France
- Salon de la création, Les Halles Alstom, Nantes, France
2004
- White Elephant Gallery, Paris, France
2003
- La Maroquinerie, Paris, France
- Centre Asiatique de Verderonne chez Caroline Corre, Manoir du Boullanc, France
1999 - 2000
- Aides/Arc-en-ciel, Paris, France
1998
- Usine Bertheau, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
1991
- Création et expositions du groupe « Sans Domicile Fixe » dans le but d?exposer dans des lieux où l?on n?a pas l?habitude de montrer un travail artistique, France
Awards
2011
- Arcimboldo Price : special mention
2010
- Nominated at HSBC Price
1983
- Troisième prix pour une photographie couleur au concours inter-académique de France.
1982
- Mention spéciale pour une photographie noir et blanc au concours inter-académique de France
Publications
- Avril 1992 : La République de Seine et Marne.
- 25 août 2008 : Libération Lille.
- Avril 2009 : Portfolio dans Réponses Photo (n° 205).
- 20 et 21 juin 2009 : Libération édition nationale (p. 25 et p. 38-39).
- 9 septembre 2010 : Presse de la Manche.
- 4 juin 2011 : Ouest France, Cherbourg.
texts
French National Library, Paris, France
Museum of Solidarity Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chili
Exhibitions
gallery exhibition
horizon(s)
