Arno Boueilh

Arno Boueilh’s painting follows in the tradition of figurative art. He paints what he sees, not to produce a literal copy of reality, but rather to offer an interpretation of it, seeking to create a synthesis between the subject and the light.
Arno Boueilh draws inspiration from aerial and seascapes, as well as from the materials and forms of buildings – both old and new – in the city and its surroundings; he possesses the dual perspective of a landscape painter and an architect. The cracks, patinas, damage and oxidation on walls and render become paintings that evoke the humble splendour of 17th-century Dutch painting: in a famous ‘view’ of Delft, it was ‘a small patch of yellow wall’ that revealed to Proust the secret of a masterpiece.
Another aspect of his worldview is nature in its spontaneous simplicity: grasses, shrubs, plants and trees – the basic alphabet of the plant world – are painted in groups like landscapes, or alone like figures; this is not a striking nature, but rather a modest, silent and tenacious one, growing wherever it can and offering its beauty where one least expects it.
Indeed, one quality of Arno’s painting is precisely the silence in which he immerses objects and the physical world; a ‘silent yet eloquen...

Arno Boueilh was born in 1977 in Paris and grew up in the Montparnasse neighbourhood. His father, an architect, instilled in him a love of drawing and a sense of structural rigour from a very early age. After taking up painting at the Ateliers de la Ville de Paris under Didier Piketty, his encounter with the painter Pierre Gilou proved decisive, teaching him the craft of painting and a keen eye for detail.

Having graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he furthered his academic studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) and the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), and undertook an Erasmus exchange at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Upon completing his studies, he chose to devote himself exclusively to painting.

His work draws inspiration from his life, which is divided between Paris, Tuscany and Naples. Deeply influenced by Italy, he has developed a figurative body of work centred on landscape – both rural and urban – architecture and, occasionally, still lifes. His canvases, deliberately devoid of any human presence, capture the silent dialogue between the geometry of buildings and a crisp, crystalline Mediterranean ...

2026
« Luce Nitida », Personal Exhibition, Galerie HeA, Séoul, Corée du Sud

2025
« Terre Mêlée IV in Singapore », « Alchemy – Firing Time, Infusing the Moment », Arno Boueilh / Heami Lee, SPACE & BOL Gallery, Singapour
« Regards croisés sur Naples », Arno Boueilh / Ferrante Ferranti, Galerie Chrystel Anthéo, Périgord
« Lumière Silencieuse », Arno Boueilh / Serge Marie, Galerie Aguas Calientes / La Barque, Champagne en Valromey

2024
« Terre Mêlée III à Paris », 서울의 달과 나폴리의 태양, Arno Boueilh / Heami Lee, Poliform Silvera, Paris
« Terre Mêlée II à Napoli », « La luna di Seul & il sole di Napoli », Arno Boueilh / Heami Lee, Tile&Design Gallery, Naples
« Sur les toits de Paris », Arno Boueilh / Daniel Levigoureux, Galerie Chrystel Anthéo, Périgord

2023
« Terre Mêlée », Galerie HeA, Séoul, Corée du Sud
« Vis-à-vis », Peintures & Sculptures, Galerie Chrystel Anthéo, Périgord

2022
Galerie Art du Temps, Drôme provençale
« État des lieux », Institut Français de Naples, Italie
Galerie Ad Solem, Atelier François Legrand, Paris

2021
« Tonalités », présentation du recueil de poésies d’Olivier Blin, Galerie Chrystel Anthéo, Périgord

2019
« Ocre Chair », Galerie Ad Solem, Paris
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