Eric Michel
Biografia
Eric Michel was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1962 and studied plastic arts and music at a very young age using the Martenot method. Upon completion of higher scientific studies, he initially moved into the field of finance, while simultaneously pursuing his artistic activities. He made numerous exhibitions in Japan where he stayed until 2002 as an executive of an American bank. In December 2003 he participated in the Kawasaki Contemporary Art Biennale, and since then his work has been regularly presented in museums, galleries and art events around the world. In 2007, his video Swimming Fluo was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Shanghai, then in most contemporary art museums in China, on the occasion of the Sport in Art exhibition sponsored by the Committee. 2008 Beijing Olympics In 2009, he successively created two multimedia installations: Lumière and Immaterial for the Yves Klein Archives and Passages de Lumière for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice (MAMAC). Since 2011, his permanent light installation Les Moulins de Lumière has been visible every evening north of Paris on the Grands Moulins de Pantin site. In the same year, his monumental light monochrome Fluo Blue joined the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice. His neon work, the La Lumière Parle, was exhibited in 2012 at La Maison Rouge. In 2013, his exhibition Passeur de Lumière offered a dialogue with the architecture of Le Corbusier and Xenakis at the convent of La Tourette, and in 2014, his work Mono Light was displayed at the Philharmonie de Luxembourg, like a showcase of light for Yves Klein's Symphony Monoton-Silence. After a long stay in Tokyo and Rome, he now lives in Paris. His work on light, in particular his paintings saturated with pure pigments, his videos and his fluorescent installations, is essentially in the tradition of a quest for the immaterial, in the tradition of Yves Klein, James Turrell and Dan Flavin.
Exibitions
2019 “La Nuit Transfigurée”, Cité des Sciences, Paris 2018 Michel/Chiavacci : De la déconstruction à la fluorescence, destins croisés , Galleria Die Mauer, Prato , “La Lumière Parle” (Light Speaks), 836M Gallery, San Francisco 2017 Platonium, Place du Marché Couvert, Metz La Cappella della luce, Festival dei giorni di luce, Saint-Saturnin 2016 Platonium, Festa delle luci, cortile del municipio, Lione ARGIA, il linguaggio della luce, Château Observatoire Abbadia, Hendaye Polo della luce, Polo culturale di Chabran, Draguignan 2015 Light Project, Arts Elysées, Parigi I laboratori di luce, Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Parigi Living the Light, ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise 2014 La Veille des Solitaires, sala capitolare, Abbazia di Saint-Jean-aux-Bois Mono Light, lavoro per la Monoton-Silence Symphony di Yves Klein, Filarmonica del Lussemburgo 2013 Passeur of Light, Convento di La Tourette, Eveux 2012 Aura, Hôtel-Dieu, Brie-Comte-Robert Galleria Ilan Engel, Parigi 2011 Quid sit lumen, Collegiate Church of Saint-Lazare, Avalon Fluorescenza (e), Galleria Ilan Engel, Parigi 2010 Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI West), San Francisco Galleria Véronique Smagghe, Parigi 2009 Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea (MAMAC), Nizza Light and Intangible, Yves Klein Archives, Parigi 2008 Galleria Véronique Smagghe, Parigi Libreria Mazarine, Vanessa Suchar, Parigi SPQR Fluo, Galleria Augusto Consorti, Roma La Playa Fluo, Immersiva Remix, Roma Fluorescenza, Museo di Storia e Arte, Villeneuve-Loubet 2007 Biblioteca Fluorescente, Università di La Sapienza, Roma 2006 Cabaret, Vanessa Suchar, Parigi Neon Night, White Night 2006, Parigi 2005 Omaggio a Yves Klein, Galerie MB, Parigi 2003 Galleria Mamia Bretesché, Parigi 2001 Colori danzanti, Vivre La Vie Art Lounge, Tokyo. E numerose mostre collettive.
