Joël DUCORROY
Introduction
Joel Ducorroy, one may qualify him as a neo-conceptual humourist, collects words and plays with art.
He found a gimmick: « style is the thing » andyou only haveto readto understand it. He adopted the name “plaquetitien artist” created by Jean-Claude Lange, a friend of Raymond Hains. In 1980, he met Serge Gainsbourg with whom he indulges a play on words: “Et caetera, c'est adequat” a sentence which roughly translate to “Et caetera, it's adequate”.
To commemorate this event, he wrote this sentence on license plates in the store in which Marcel Duchamp bought his bottle rack.
In 1981, he started using license plates, and created several works very similar to those of the Pop artists; plates representing a part of a whole object create the said objected when gathered. Since then, the work of Joël Ducorroy has been the subject of several exhibitions and particularly of:
In 1985, for the first time in New-York, at the Gallery Emily Harvey which mainly supports artists of Fluxus movement
In 1987, in New-York again, for a solo exhibition during which he met Andy Warhol;
In 1988, first exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Museum of Nice;
In 1989, he participated at the Colour of Monochrome exhibition of the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo;
In 1991, nines galleries got together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his work;
In the following years, like one of his mentors, Rodchenko, he applied his ideas in various fields such as architecture, cloth design and photography:
At the end of 1992, for the Confort Moderne in Poitiers, he created a massive work with license plates (over a thousand of plates were required) representing the inside of a 4-room apartment.
He organized a solo exhibition in 2003 at the FIAC with the baudoin lebon gallery which has represented him since 1994.
Biography
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2016
- Chroniques, Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-mer, France
2015
- Exquises esquisses, Joël Ducorroy et Olivia Fryszowski, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Joël Ducorroy, artiste plaquetitien, Arsenal-Museum of Soissons, Roussel, Soissons, France
2014
- Comme un aperçu, André Malraux Art Space, Colmar, France
- Styles et Académies, Gallery of college Jacques Cartier, Cauny, France
- Editions, Art Center of Châtellerault, France
2012
- Etre-artiste-et-tout-plaquer, Paul-Louis Flandrin, Paris, France
2011
- Amicalement vôtre, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Plaqué art, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-bains, France
2009
- Etre artiste et tout plaquer, Artcurial Paris / Artaé, Lyon
- Edition de Ducorroy, Appart 113 Gallery, Bordeaux, France
2008
- Ducorroy sur l'Ile de Ré, Kahn Gallery, Ars-en-Ré, France
2007
- L'emploi des mots dans l'art, Regional Museum, Gap, France
- Monaplaque, Incognito Gallery, Monaco
- Joël Ducorroy artiste "plaquetitien, Kandler Gallery, Toulouse, France
2003
- Editions, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Chapelle du Carmel, Châlons?sur-Saône, France
2001
- Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000
- Kahn Gallery, Strasbourg, France
- baudoin lebon, Paris, France
1998
- Art Center of Bouvet-Ladubay, Saumur, France
- Museum of modern and contemporary art, Nice, France
1996
- baudoin lebon, Paris, France
1992
- Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
1991
- IMMATRICULÉE CONCEPTION (9 exhibitions for 10 years of work)
- Jade Gallery , Colmar, France
- G Gallery, Besançon, France
- Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
- Duval ? Dunner Gallery, Paris, France
- Lecointre - Ozanne Gallery, Paris, France
- baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Gallery of Paris, Paris, France
- Ghislain Mollet Vieville agent d?art, Paris, France
- Lola Gassin Gallery, Nice, France
1990
- La collection partie N°2, Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
- L'exposition suite, Métroplolis Gallery, Lyon, France
Group exhibitions (selected)
2015
- Sweet 18: Contemporary art, fashion and design inspired by the 18th Century, Urssel Castle, Hingene
2014
- Crosswords 2, Jordan/Seydoux Gallery et Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
2013
- Art Paris, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- St'art, with Kahn Gallery , Strasbourg, France
2012
- Perspectives, Artae Gallery, Lyon, France
2009
- Les artistes de la Galerie, José Martinez Gallery, Lyon, France
2006
- Art and industry museum of St Etienne, France
- Art modest museum, Sète, France
- José Martinez Gallery, Lyon, France
2004
- A prendre ou à laissser, Artothèque of Caen, France
- Segnali inquieti, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
2003
- Selest?Art 2003, Sélestat, France
- Les matériaux de la Sculpture, Marseille, Salon de Provence, Arles
2002
- Ziem Museum, Martigues, France
- Huyndai Gallery, Seoul, South of Korea
- Portraits d?artistes libres, Infinito Ltd Gallery, Turin, Italy
2000
- La santé des restes, Ziem Museum, Martigues, France
1999
- L'Art & l'Ecrit, Sculfort Space, Maubeuge, France
- L'écrit dans l'art, Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation, Les Mesnuls, France
- Bunkier Sztuki, Cravcovie, Poland
- Bourdelle Museum, Paris, France
- 10 x 10, Kahn Gallery, Strasbourg, France
1995
- Bleu pour les filles, Rose pour les garçons, Fine Arts School Paris
1992
- Marie Puck - Broothares Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
1991
- After Duchamp, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France
Art Fairs
2011
- ArtParis, with Kahn Gallery, Paris, France
1994
- SAGA, with Galerie Polaris, Stand Rabanelly, GDL, Paul Bourquin, Paris, France
1993
- SAGA, with Polaris et GDL Galleries, Paris, France
1992
- SAGA, with Polaris et Paul Bourquin Galleries, Paris, France
1991
- SAGA, with Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
- FIAC, with Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
1989
- ART JONCTION, with Polaris Gallery, Nice, France
- FIAC, with Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
1988
- SAGA, with baudoin lebon et Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
- ART JONCTION, with Galerie Polaris Gallery, Nice, France
- FIAC, with Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
1987
- FIAC, with Polaris Gallery, Paris, France
1986
- ART JONCTION, with Polaris Gallery, Nice, France
public collections
- The regional fund for contemporary art, Alsace
- Mamac, Nice
- FDAC, Seine Saint Denis
- Ziem Museum, Martigues
- Regional Museum, Gap
- Conseil Général de l'Essonne
- Musée des arts religieux modernes, Bruxelles
- Artothèque de Villeurbanne
- Artothèque de Caen
- Artothèque d'Amiens
- Artothèque d'Angers
- Artothèque de Besançon
- Artothèque de Grenoble
- The National Library of France, Paris
Private collections in France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Québec, United-States, Belgium, Czech Republic, Scandinavia, Italy
Exhibitions
gallery exhibition
LEAVES OF GRASS
gallery exhibition
Joël Ducorroy & Olivia Fryszowski
