Marc Desgrandchamps

Marc Desgrandchamps

Marc Desgrandchamps (born in 1960) lives and works in Lyon (France). Marc Desgrandchamps, leading painter figure painter of the French art scene, plays with the notions of opacity, transparency and superimposition. If his painting is figurative, indeed we recognize bodies and landscapes, the perspective is often twisted, space is indefinite, and suddenly anomalies arise: bodies and objects are fragmented. His works references comes from many universes (art history, photography, cinema, literature and music), it raises the question of the medium’ specificities and experiences the limits of figuration. He paints, according to his own words, " a painting of doubt, doubt of the figure, doubt of presence, doubt even of painting". Another recurrent motif in its artistic practice, the feminine figure, and especially the one of the bathers, occupies a central place. Marc Desgrandchamps has benefited from several major exhibitions, especially in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (2004), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon (2004), the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2005), the National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Georges Pompidou (2006), as well as an important retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (2011). In addition, his work is present in French institutional collections (FRAC Ile-de-France - Le Plateau in Paris, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Étienne, Regional Museum of Contemporary Art Languedoc-Roussillon in Sérignan, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg).

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Press

2015
Palace Costes, “Marc Desgrandchamps, Ombres Blanches", October 2, 2015
Vincent Delaury, L’Oeil , September 29, 2015Anne de Coninck, Slate, “VISITEZ L’ATELIER DE MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS, LE PEINTRE FRANÇAIS MAÎTRE DE L’ÉVANESCENCE”, September 23, 2015
Philippe Dagen, Le Monde, Review September 20, 2015
Laurent Boudier, Télérama, Sortir, “Marc Desgrandchamps, Ombres Blanches” , September 9, 2015
Sophie de Santis, Le Figaroscope, ”IMPRÉVISIBLE DESGRANDCHAMPS”, September 9, 2015
Valérie de Maulmin, Connaissance des Arts, “LES VISIONS FUGACES DE MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS”, Sept 5, 2015

2014
The New Yorker, “Review: Come Like Shadows” January, 2014
William Eckhardt Kohler, The Huffington Post ”IN BETWEEN : VARIOUS ARTISTS …” , Jan 3, 2014

2013
Bettina Wohlfarth, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ,”Alla dimensiones von Weiblichkeit”, October 1, 2013
Vincent Brocvielle, Têtu, “EXTÉRIEUR PLAGE”, Sept 26, 2013
Park Eunju, Artpress, “MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS”, Sept 25, 2013
Vincent Delaury, L’Oeil, “DESGRANDCHAMPS”, Sept 21, 2013
Laurent Boudier, Télérama, ”MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS”, Sept 19, 2013
Beaux Quartiers Lyon, Benjamin Guillot, ”MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS, L’ÉLÉGANCE PICTURALE”, Aug 21, 2013
Laurence Chauvy, Le Temps, ”UNE PEINTURE TROUBLE ET FASCINANTE”, Aug 29, 2013
Eric Tariant, Le journal des Arts, ”MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS - « UN MONDE ÉVANESCENT »”, Jul 13, 2013
Philippe Dagen, Le Monde, “MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS PREND L’OEIL AU PIÈGE TROUBLE DE SES TOILES” May 16, 2013
Liu Xi, LEAP, ”MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS” March 30, 2013
David Cohen, Artinfo, ”MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS”, Jan 26, 2013

2008
Guitemie Maldonado, Artforum, Review, May 2008