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Olivier Masmonteil

In 1996, Olivier Masmonteil entered the Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, where his desire for figurative painting was opposed by some of his teachers, who, like many at the time, advocated the death of figurative painting. Far from making him give up, these confrontations prompted him to question the origin of the controversy. He retraces the history of art in search of the first appearance of the question, and discovers that this debate is far from contemporary.

From Pliny the Elder to Raphael, the death of painting has been declared on numerous occasions. Yet each time, it resists and transforms itself, drawing from these quarrels the seeds of its renewal. The young artist began to explore the history of art, visiting libraries to discover ancient and contemporary painters. At the same time, he drew inspiration from the works of Gérard Gasiorowski and Markus Lüpertz, building his own personal mythology. This developed around three subjects that would never leave him: landscape, art history and the fantasy of the horizon, of travel.

Today, Olivier Masmonteil's works - which leave room for abstraction by confronting it with figurative landscapes - bear witness to the same visual passion that has guided him from the outset and consumes his pictorial compositions.

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Biography

Born in 1973 in Romilly-sur-Seine, Olivier Masmonteil is a painter based in Paris, but whose activity extends to his many travels.

TRAINING

  • 1990-1996 / Jacques Gabriel Chevalier Academy of Fine Arts, Brives, France
  • 1996-1999 / National School of Fine Arts, Bordeaux, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - SELECTION

  • 2021 / "La peinture dévoilée", Maison des Arts, Châtillon, France
  • 2020 / "Sérial Couleurs", L'Artothèque, Caen, France
  • "Masmonteil, des horizons si grands", Suquet des artistes, Cannes, France
  • 2019 / "Paysage", Galerie Thomas Bernard, Cortex Athletico, Paris, France
  • "De la ligne à l'horizon", Scène ouverte, Paris, France
  • 2018 / "L'espace des métamorphoses", Cité des Arts, Chambéry, France
  • 2017 / "Diana hunting", Schloss Gabelhofen, Fohnsdorf, Austria
  • "Les Baigneuses", Les Rencontres d'art contemporain, Cahors, France
  • "From Gimel to Ushuaïa", Château de Sédières, Clergoux, France
  • 2016 / "Portrait", Galerie Dukan, Saint-Ouen, France
  • 2015 / "Diana bathing", André Simoens Galery, Knokke, Belgium
  • "Olivier Masmonteil. Paintings", Chapelle Saint-Libéral, Brive, France
  • "What a wonderful world", Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany Memories,
  • Fonds cultuel de l'Ermitage, Garches, France
  • 2014 / "A week and a day in Prague", Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague, Czech Republic
  • "Les courtisanes", Galerie DX, Bordeaux, France
  • "La mémoire du passé", Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
  • 2012 / "Intimate suites", Andre Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
  • "Chapter II: the pleasure of painting", Galerie Dukan, Paris, France
  • "From one horizon to the other", Château de Jau, France
  • "Place", la galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Ontario, Canada
  • 2010 / "Olivier Masmonteil", Klare Ferne, French Institute, Berlin, Germany
  • "Olivier Masmonteil", Centre d'art contemporain, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS - SELECTION

  • 2021 / "ONN#6, ouiouinonon", 24Beaubourg, Paris, France
  • 2020 / "Over the Rainbow", Red Bull Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2019 / "Penser le Paysage", Galerie Albert Bourgeois, Fougères, France
  • 2018 / Galerie Provost Hacker, Lille, France
  • 2017 / "Parfums de femmes", FIAC, Chambres à part 13, Grand Musée du Parfum, Paris, France
  • 2016 / "Peindre", Galerie des jours de lune, Metz, France
  • 2012 / "Plaisirs de France", Baku, Azerbadjian and Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • 2010 / "Des Paysages et des Figures", Station 7, Marseille, France
  • 2009 / "Le murex et l'araignée", Hôtel de ville, Aubusson, France
  • 2008 / "Delicate colors", Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria
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