Patrick Mimran (born 1956 in Paris) is a French multimedia artist and is one of the Mimran brothers.
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Mimran initially devoted himself to the business world. Along with his brother, Jean Claude, he was co-director of Lamborghini until 1987, when it was sold to Chrysler. Later, he entered the art world as a multitask artist, working with painting, photography, video art, sculpture and installations. He also composes electronic music in collaboration with Peter Greenaway and also Maurice Béjart for his ballet Kurozuka (Bunkan Kalkan Theatre, Tokyo).[1]
Mimran's artistic world is both introspective and obsessed by the present and its surprises. His paintings are introspective, semi-abstract, and colorful. He multiplies his allusions to body, sex and death. In contrast, Mimran's attention to the present expresses itself in his video works and his complex installations which mix contemporary references with historical film and other memories (Les Rythmes du temps, installation, 1996). One of the most intriguing aspect of this constantly changing and prophetic body of work is represented by the immense photographies of shopping windows, escalators or parking entrances: a void universe maintained far from real. The ultra-precise optical technique used in these photographs transforms them into icons, images that are altogether human, realistic, sacred and timeless (Car Parks in New York, Venice ; Prélèvements urbains, Paris ; Temple Steps, Miami, shows presented between 2006 and 2008).[2]
Mimran initiated in 1999 in New York and has been pursuing in Miami, Venice, Tokyo… his Billboard Project used to diffuse with a critical perspective, but also irony and self-derision, his tagline thoughts on the artworld (« I’m the Best in the West »).[3]