Manuel Dampeyroux

Currently residing in Montpellier, I practice drawing and painting in a singular way. My personal art production begins at about the age of five. My first major artistic influence was the discovery at the age of fourteen of the cinema of the new Hollywood. The viewing of these films was an important aesthetic shock because their work was thematic complex, formally innovative, morally ambiguous, and rich in mythical resonance.

The new Hollywood has seen the birth of some of the greatest directors and works in the history of cinema where immorality and extreme violence, previously censored by the Hays code, mingle in twilight and desperate stories. Ambiguity, the realistic vision of individuals and their problems, the willingness to explore the depths of the human soul and the use of anti-heroes are themes that stand out in my pictorial work.

Graduate of a Master in Contemporary Plastic Practices at the University Paul Valéry III of Montpellier, I also give courses in academic drawing at a private higher institution of interior architecture and disgn in Montpellier (ESDAC), oil painting courses for the Atelier de Mo located in the fine arts district of Montpellier as well as for the Association Arts et Culture (Le Crès, France)...

Qualifications

• Master of art Université Paul Valery III Montpellier (France)
• Bachelor of art Université Paul Valery III Montpellier (France)
• Upgrade applied arts - IPESAA Montpellier (France)

M A N U E L


French artist, based in Montpellier, France. Born in 1991.




CV


Collective exhibition

• International art show Le Puy-en-Velay 2013(France)
• Art show 2017 – Graveson (France)
• 35th regional artists fair of Juvignac 2019 (France)
• Spring art show 2019 – Juvignac (France)
• 32th exhibition of young visual artists ELSTIR 2019 – Saint Raphaël (France)
• Collective exhibition with "Artothèque" of Montpellier at "domaine de saint clément", Saint clément de Rivière. 2019 (France)
• Collective exhibition with "Artothèque" of Montpellier at "domaine de Restinclières", Prades-Le-Lez. 2019 (France)
• Arts Show 2019 – Le Crès (France)
• 36th regional artists fair of Juvignac 2019 (France)
• Art3F Monaco (Monaco)
• Lab16 Art Prize - Rome (Italy)
• 35th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition (USA)
• (soon) Autumn Exhibition in Grand Palais – Paris – 2021 (France)

Solo exhibition

• (soon) Hofer-Bury museum in Laverune (France) Spring 2022


Prizes and awards


• Painting award, Arts Show of Graveson 2017 (France)
• Jury award, 35th regional artists fair of Juvignac 2019 (France)
• Jury Award, 10th arbust' show of Mantes-la-jolie 2020 (France)
• Finalist of Lab16 Art Prize -...