Nicolas Dhervillers
Nicolas Dhervillers works with photography and drawing. Since 2016, the artist has been fusing these two mediums through his practice of dry pastel, which he models with his fingers.
The Remake series is made up of hyper-zoomed pastels coming from fragments of distant horizons copied from photographs. The image is taken back, reinvented, from the work springs a powdery and velvety matter, luminous and fleeting. As if through a fog, the photograph reveals itself.
For its 2023 edition, Private Choice presents its new Remake Nymphéas series, inspired by the oils on canvas adorning the walls of the Impressionist chapel at the musée de l’Orangerie. Claude Monet created his Water Lilies at the end of his life, at a time when he was losing his visual acuity. He compensated for this with absolute freedom of framing, choosing the reflection on the pond in his Givernois garden as a subject.
Borrowing the same tones of blues, greens and purples, Nicolas Dhervillers creates his own evaporated version of the landscape. In a nod to his past as a photographer, the horizontal stripes serve as clues to the steps of his creation. Willow branches temper the abstraction, while the shots are sequenced across the canvases, tending towards a cinematic language.
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Biography
Nicolas Dhervillers is a French artist born in 1981. He lives and works in Paris.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNG
- 2005 / Maîtrise de cinéma et arts du spectacle, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
- 2003 / Maîtrise Sciences et Techniques en photographie et multimédia, Université Paris 8
SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION
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2022 / Centre d’art – Le Mur Moret – Under the layer, Moret-sur-Loing
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2022 / Galerie Dilecta, Crossfade, Paris
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2022 / Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes, En tête à tête avec Gustave Le Gray, Troyes
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2021 / Centre d’art contemporain, CAC Passages, D’une rive à l’autre, Troyes
- 2020 / Musée de Picardie, Amiens
- 2020 / Exposition en partenariat avec le MUCEM, Marseille
- 2020 / Hôtels Pullman, série de 9 expositions en partenariat avec le club Barter
- 2017 / Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny, Suisse
- 2015 / Ballart International Foto Biennale, Australie
- 2014 / Gemeente Museum Helmond, Pays-Bas
- 2013 / Musée d’art sacré, Saint-Véroce
- 2012 / Art Center Volklingen Hutte, Allemagne 2012 – Maison des Arts de Créteil
- 2011 / Arsenal, commande du Centre Pompidou-Metz
- 2011 / Centre d’Art Ferme Asile, Suisse
- 2011 / Château des Bouillants, Dammarie-les-Lys
- 2011 / Levallois Photo Festival, Levallois-Perret
GROUP EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION
- 2022 / Private Choice n°11 Lignes de vie / Life lines, Paris, France
- 2021 / Private Choice n°10 Odyssée / Odyssey, Paris, France
- 2019 / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
- 2019 / Serres de Pantin, Jardinons les possibles
- 2019 / Minneapolis, Etats-Unis
- 2019 / La Montgolfière, Paris
- 2019 / Art-O-Rama, Marseille
- 2017 / Biennale d’Art du Valais, Suisse
- 2016 / EAC Les Roches, Espace d’Art Contemporain, Le Chambon sur Lignon
- 2015 / Triennale photographie et architecture, Bruxelles
- 2015 / Centre d’art le Radar, Bayeux
- 2015 / Fondation Mallet-Stevens, Paris
- 2014 / Photography Festival, Genève Château du Rivau, France
- 2013 / Galerie du Jour agnès b., Marseille
- 2012 / Musée d’art et d’histoire du Valais, Suisse
- 2012 / Galerie du Jour agnès b., Hong Kong
- 2012 / Pingyao International Festival, Pingyao, Chine
PRIZES & RESIDENCIES
- 2018-2019 / Résidence à Marseille
- 2011 / Résidence, Ferme Asile, Suisse
- 2010 / Zoom, Prix du salon de la photographie
- 2009 / Arcimboldo, Prix spécial du jury
COLLECTIONS
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri,USA | Camper Museum, USA | Collection Pullman Artothèque du Valais, Suisse | Musée d’art et d’histoire, Valais, Suisse | Collection Raymond Weil, Suisse | Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris Centre Pompidou-Metz | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Collection Fnac, France | Château du Rivau, France | Fonds de dotation agnès b. | Fondation Delsemme, Belgique | Gemeente museum, Helmond, Pays-Bas