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 light speaks, 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.