Xavier Veilhan

Xavier Veilhan

Xavier Veilhan, 2010
Born 1963
France
Nationality French
Education ENSAD, Paris
Known for sculpture, installation art, painting, photography, film
Website veilhan.com

Xavier Veilhan (1963) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. His work includes photography, sculpture, film, painting and installation art.

Life and career


Xavier Veilhan emerged in the early 1990s as one of the leading artists of his generation.[1] A string of exhibitions, showcasing every aspect of his unique plastic vocabulary, ensured his international fame. In 2009, it was the consecration with his exhibition Veilhan Versailles, the castle and its gardens offered an ideal setting for his sculptures and installations.[2] He uses a large array of materials and techniques to produce three-dimensional portraits and landscapes, bestiary and architectures that always oscillate between the familiar and the extraordinary. His exhibitions and in-situ interventions in cities, gardens and houses question our perception by creating an evolving ambulatory space in which the audience becomes an active participant (Veilhan Versailles, 2009; Veilhan at Hatfield: Promenade, 2012; the Architectones series, 2012-2014). By associating sculpture, scenery, music and living figures, he creates works to create exhibitions. Their aesthetics reveal a continuum of form, contour, fixity and dynamics, that invite the spectator to a new reading of the space and so creating a whole repertory of signs, the theatre of a society.

Frequently investing in the public space, Xavier Veilhan has installed sculptures in various cities in France – Bordeaux (Le Lion, 2004), Tours (Le Monstre, 2004), Lyon (Les Habitants, 2006) – as he has abroad: New York (Jean-Marc, 2012), Shanghai (Alice, 2013), Sweden (Julian, 2014), Seoul (The Skater, 2015). His latest performance, SYSTEMA OCCAM, for a musical composition by Eliane Radigue, was presented in 2013 in Marseille and New York, and in 2014 in the Parisian museum Eugène Delacroix. The end of 2014 marked his transformation of the Château de Rentilly (Frac Ile-de-France, Marne et Gondoire), while in March 2015 his Architectones project took root with the launch of the eponymous book and documentary. At the same time, the double exhibition Music was presented at Galerie Perrotin New York and Paris. In the summer of 2015 Xavier Veilhan focuses on new cinematographic work with collaborations with the festival “Cinéma en Plein Air” (La Villette, Paris) and the Opéra National de Paris, all the while preparing solo shows in São Paulo and in Stockholm. He is represented by Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Galerie Perrotin, Galeria Nara Roesler and 313 Art Project.

Work

Selected solo exhibitions / Public projets

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

Collaborations

Air's Pocket Symphony album cover by Xavier Veilhan

With Sébastien Tellier

With Air (French Band)

With Daniel Buren

With Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Movies

Directed by Xavier Veilhan ; Music Sébastien Tellier ; co-produced by Renaud Sabari & Xavier Veilhan/AIA production. Courtesy Andréhn & Schiptjenko, Stockholm ; Galerie Perrotin, Paris.

Directed by Xavier Veilhan in collaboration with Michael Elion. Edition of 4 + 1 AP. Courtesy Andréhn & Schiptjenko, Stockholm ; Galerie Perrotin, Paris ; Gering&Lopez, New York.

Directed by Xavier Veilhan ; co-produced by Arthurpym & Anna Sanders Film. Edition of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy Andréhn – Schiptjenko, Stockholm ; Galerie Perrotin, Paris.

Directed by Xavier Veilhan ; co-produced by Arthurpym & Anna Sanders Films. Edition of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy Andréhn – Schiptjenko, Stockholm ; Galerie Perrotin, Paris.

Directed by Xavier Veilhan ; co-produced by CCA Kitakyushu, JRP Editions, Genève, & Anna Sanders Films. Edition of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy Andréhn – Schiptjenko, Stockholm ; Galerie Perrotin, Paris.

Xavier Veilhan at his studio. Le Carrosse (model)

Bibliography

Documentaries

French/English. Running time : 52'.
Publisher Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2009.
Director : Jordan Feldman

French/English. Running time : 90'.
Editeur Bureau des vidéos, 2007
Director : Jordan Feldman

References

  1. ↑ Jean-Max Colard, Xavier Veilhan, Artforum, Feb, 2001.
  2. ↑ "Discussion with Xavier Veilhan", Manan Ter-Grigoryan for Art Observed, October 8th, 2009.

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