Olivier Rocheau

Olivier Rocheau was born in 1975 in La Rochelle.
Visual artist, his work is already recognized and has been rewarded by numerous exhibitions / installations (in France and Germany), prizes and commissions (private / public).
His works, immediately recognizable, out of the ordinary, colorful, generous offer different levels of reading and always give off a very strong feeling...
They question materials and colors between abstraction and aesthetics...
This spontaneous writing, which plays with the codes of childhood, paradoxically reveals an accomplished, sophisticated, rigorous universe. The artist shapes, sets up, via a particular vocabulary, an architecture, a framework, in their strictest destitution...
Between asceticism and flamboyance, a coherent, always renewed “world” that takes shape between graphic work and installation.

"My work takes place in the public space through the manifestation of heritage installations.
I most often bring into dialogue my artistic language, shapes, signs and colors, with an element of the built heritage.
Dialogue of forms, substantive conversation, between eras and styles, artistic and architectural….
It is a way of making history, which I am passionate about. Another to work on my artistic language in situ, like breathing…"

Visual artist, his work is already recognized and has been rewarded by numerous exhibitions / installations (in France and Germany), prizes and commissions (private / public)