Francois Marcadon

Born in 1981 in Nantes, France.
Lives in Brussels, Belgium.


> François Marcadon’s world is above all made up of sham. With elegant appearance, aesthetics intention, each of his works involves the bitter with the soft-sweet, by discovering under its sweetened surface a more disturbing phantasmagorical bottom. These fantasmatic images (alternately dream, nightmare or allegory) settle the personal mythology of the artist which offers a vision either dreamy or cruel, like his own laughter, omnipresent, about which we never know if it is sign of rejoicing or sarcasm.

The body as the main thread of which François Marcadon expresses the vanity and the uncertainty as to remind in the same movement its extraordinary plasticity - its metamorphic potential - and its unconditional finiteness - its mortality. Multiplying the formats, and taking advantage of the dissolving aspect of the paint (water colours, acrylic, ink), he graphically explores the polymorphism of the body whose diluted consistency allows all the fantasies.

Enhanced by a cheerful and almost childish pink, the color of the flesh doesn’t have to deceive: with its crudeness it brings the exposure of an embodiment of which humanity is beneficiary, but also victim. Dreamed life...

DNSEP Art (BFA), École Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Nantes (FR)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Le Trouble, le Double et l'Oubli, with Lucas Seguy, L'Atelier, Nantes (FR)
Il miracolo di Urakawa, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (IT)
2021
Même les oiseaux ne naissent pas sans tête, Neuf Gallery, Bruxelles (BE)
2016
Ah...l'Amour!, l'Orangerie, Bastogne (BE)
2014
- Look and feel your best, MOCA, Taipei (TW)
2013
- Golden Days, Point Éphémère, Paris (FR)
2010
- Welcome to my world, Espace En Cours, Paris (FR)
- Bite me#2, Librairie St Hubert, Bruxelles (BE)
2008
- Les Vêtements Papiers, La Piscine, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent, Roubaix (FR)
- Bite me, curated by Régis Perray, Bureau d’Art et de Recherche, Roubaix (FR)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
- Chambres avec Vues, curated by Guy Malevez/Lieux communs, Namur (BE)
- Sequence027, Neuf gallery, Bruxelles (BE)
2023
Sexy voto, curated by Eric Rigollaud, Club_24, Lille (FR)
2021
- Der Rattenfänger, curated by Pierre-Philippe Hofmann, DuflonRacz gallery, Bruxelles (BE)
- PARTcours, curated by Guy Malevez/Lieux communs, Bruxelles (BE)
2020
Tableaux fantômes, Musée Benoît-De-Puydt, Bailleul (FR)
2019
- Pelgrims’Spirit, Maison Pelgrims, Bruxelles (BE)
- En mai, fais ce qu’il te plaît, Centre culturel Jacques Franck, Bruxelles (BE)
2018
- PARTcours, cura...