Michel Guillou
Tregunc, Finistère, France
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About the artist
Michel Guillou
Joined In 2013
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About the artist
Michel Guillou
Joined In 2013
(8 Followers)
ABOUT
EXHIBITIONS
Information about Michel Guillou are both In English and French
Michel Guillou began to paint at the age of 16. During the 80' he started a carrier in the comic strip industry in Belgium and published several works. Slowly a feeling of discomfort influenced the decision of leaving the comic strip world - a too narrowed expression mean, according to him - and he started to paint again. After a short -cut through abstract paintings Michel settled in what really moved him as an artist: Painting is all in shadows and lights, colors, reflects and perspectives. Sketches and photography taken from the ordinary life are the basis of his work. Although he does not portraits the characters he chooses. He would even refuse to name his works "portraits". If one can speculate about Michel's work one may say the artist's goal is to reach something through the subject. What is it then? What soars out is a feeling of loss, like slivers of time in a hand full of sand. Therefore you can look at the painting as you look at your own perception of finitude; maybe the fear of living an endless voyage in between two states: Limbo, as they call it in the Catholic religion. This probably explains some have a feeling of morbidity when they get close to ...
Latest Exhibitions
Individual and group exhibitions
2013 - Galerie Saint Antoine. City of Clisson. France
Group exhibition.
2012 – GRAFIEK, Galerie Anversville. City of Anvers, Belgique
Froissage.
2011 – « L’Art Prend l’Air » City of Nantes, FRance
First exhibition of a new painting cycle : Froissage - Creasing
Drawings and Art installation.
2010 – A retrospective
L’Entrepôt E sens dessus dessous, City of Nantes
2009 – Visages. City of Nantes, France
Art installation
2008 – Au Temple du Goût – City of Nantes, France
Positifnégatif
Art installations & Paintings
2006 – Il était une fois les quais. Hangar du Saint Michel. City of Nantes, France
Peintures- Installation
2000 à 2005
Galerie du Rayon vert. City of Nantes, France
Collective and individual exhibitions,
Paintings, Engarvings