Philippe Favier
1957 (Saint-Étienne)
Living in : entre Veaunes et Nice
Working in : entre Veaunes et Nice
Artist's gallery
Since the 1980s until today, Philippe Favier has been able to renew his Lilliputian universes with great inventiveness, through a practice of "tightrope walker alchemist". Passionate about discoveries, greedy for the flesh of time, he diverts in his series various materials and supports, from the most derisory to the most unusual: sardine cans, slates, old photos, old maps, cadastral plan or antiphonary ... Distilling the real into a dream, transforming an "already there" into a "still there", Favier breathes new life into a sleeping memory by putting his mark on it. By grafts, traces, erasures, the artist creates a country populated with thousand and one fabulous or historical figures, skeletons, birds, hybrid animals or astonishing machines.
On the lands of the image, Favier strolls as a tightrope walker. Balancing on the thread of things, the acrobatic artist is a juggler of words and a traveler of extremities. He defuses the drama in light and colored pirouette, grime the noble figure with the blush of the trivial, strolls the death in sparkling costume in the carnival of the living and unmasks, under the disguise of the junk world, a face of essential.
Living in : entre Veaunes et Nice
Working in : entre Veaunes et Nice
Artist's gallery
Since the 1980s until today, Philippe Favier has been able to renew his Lilliputian universes with great inventiveness, through a practice of "tightrope walker alchemist". Passionate about discoveries, greedy for the flesh of time, he diverts in his series various materials and supports, from the most derisory to the most unusual: sardine cans, slates, old photos, old maps, cadastral plan or antiphonary ... Distilling the real into a dream, transforming an "already there" into a "still there", Favier breathes new life into a sleeping memory by putting his mark on it. By grafts, traces, erasures, the artist creates a country populated with thousand and one fabulous or historical figures, skeletons, birds, hybrid animals or astonishing machines.
On the lands of the image, Favier strolls as a tightrope walker. Balancing on the thread of things, the acrobatic artist is a juggler of words and a traveler of extremities. He defuses the drama in light and colored pirouette, grime the noble figure with the blush of the trivial, strolls the death in sparkling costume in the carnival of the living and unmasks, under the disguise of the junk world, a face of essential.
Artist's exhibitions
Aux sources des années 1980. Eighties and Echoes.
09/06/2019 - 22/09/2019( Les Sables d'Olonne) MASC - Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte- Croix
Philippe Favier – Prévert polymorphe
02/10/2014 - 06/12/2014(Saint-Gratien) Espace Jacques Villeglé
Le Mur. Œuvres de la collection Antoine de Galbert
14/06/2014 - 21/09/2014(Paris) La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert
Publicité
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Beauvais, 350 ans. Portraits d’une manufacture
06/05/2014 - 24/08/2014(Beauvais) Galerie nationale de la tapisserie
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