Michel DUPORT
Introduction
Michel Duport, who never « leaves the canvas behind » (D. Abensour, Bronze peints, 1992 – 1993 catalogue) developed on the wall space, where paintings are usually hanged, painted volumes dispositive like those he created with Michel Wilmotte (1989) for the private rooms of Montpellier's regional hostel or those that were commissioned by the Chartreuse de Valbonne (1997) in which the wall is part of the “painting”'s composition.
Michel Duport multiplies the use of painted surfaces and point of views. He assures that the painting medium, to stay active, needs to offer a system of visions – behaviours almost, like during the Renaissance era – to the audience member in which the painter, thanks to the perspective vanishing point assigned the spectator's frontal place in relation to the painting.
Michel Duport focuses the way he affixes colour on geometrical construction. To paint is to suggest colour as an emotion, polychrome as a parade of monochromes that would be associated with the volume of the painting, the architecture.
At the end of the 1980s, the canvas kind of “inflated”; it adopted a different volume than its original rectangle shape and became an object (finally decorative and useless… But didn't paintings used to have a decorative “use”?) while keeping a metaphorical link to the painting.
The “painting/volume” often becomes a shelf on which coloured or uncoloured shapes are placed on. The possible movements of shapes parody the painter's hesitation in the canvas's construction.
Biography
Solo exhibitions
2019
- Galerie Phosphorus et Carbon, Daegu, Séoul, Corée du Sud
- Kiasma, Castelnau-le-lez, France
2017
- Voxel, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
- Back to N., Galerie Eric Linard, La Garde Adhémar, France
2016
- Résidence villa Augustus, Dordrecht, Pays-Bas
2015
- Nirox Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Djeziri-Bonn Gallery, Paris, France
2014
- Peindre - glisser - fixer - poser, Djeziri-Bonn Gallery et baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2012
- Djezeri-Bonn Gallery, Eric Linard éditions, Paris, France
2011
- Moments d?art, Christian Aubert, Paris, France
2008
- Les objets ne restent pas toujours à la même place, G. A. C, Annonay, France
2007
- Newsletters from Mozambique, Elandart.com, Cultural center of Maputo, Mozambique
- Éric Linard Gallery, La Garde Adhémar, France
- Musée P.A.B, Ales, France
2006
- Aux râpes etc., Biennial de design, Saint-Etienne, France
- C'est pas grave, contemporary art gallery, Aigues-Mortes, France
- De l'influence des formes sur la distribution du gaz, contemporary art gallery Jules Vallès, Saint-Martin d?Hères, France
- Points de vue sans chute d?eau, Esca Gallery, Milhaud, France
Group exhibitions
2017
- India Art Fart, New Dehli, India
- Canon Gallery, Toulon, France
- KIAF, with baudoin lebon, Seoul, South Korea
2016
- Gwangju Art Fair, Gwangju, South Korea
- Réinterprétation du réel, Beaux-arts Museum, Busan, South Korea
- L?art dans les chapelles, with Bernard Cousinier, Michel Duport et Alexandra Roussopoulos, Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
- India Art Fair, New Dehli, India
- VOXEL., baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2015
- Art center of Kergéhennec, France
2014
- Pixi Gallery, Paris, France
2013
- Vieille du Temple Gallery, Paris, France
- Art Élysées, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Slick, Djeziri-Bonn Gallery, Linard éditions, Paris, France
- Jean Greset Gallery, Besançon, France
2011
- Musée Réattu/sur mesures, Réattu Museum, Arles, France
- Formes et non-formes, Jacobins Museum, Morlaix, France
2010
- Newsletters from Dalian, Elandarts.com, Dalian University, China
- Traversée d?art, Saint-Ouen, France
- Baraka, Contemporary art center, Saint-Martin d?Hères, France
2009
- Assises sedute in opera, Delaunay Collection, Contemporary art museum, Acri, Italy
- D.A.P. Paris, France
- Art Elysées, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2008
- Permutations, Valence Museum, France
- Sextet, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
- Vieille du Temple Gallery, Paris, France
- Nemausus, Nîmes, France
2007
- L?art dans les chapelles, Bretagne, France
- Drapeaux, Aigues-Mortes, France
- Frédéric Moisan Gallery, Paris
2005
- Estampes, Valence Museum, Valence, France
2004
- Art Center, Château de Servières, Marseille, France
2002
- Ateliers, invited artist, Bourges, France
1999
- Nous nous sommes tant aimé, Glass-Box, Beaux-Arts national school of Paris, France
- La Sétérée, Editions, Crest, France
- Édition de gravures et catalogue, French cultural center, Tanger, Marocco
- Pointillés, Dortindegay-Regal Gallery, Arles, France
1998
- French cultural center, Florence, Italy
1997
- Les formes de la couleur, Contemporary art museum, Carré D'Art, Nîmes, France
- Trintignan Gallery, Montpellier, France
- ?uvres du FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Municipal Museum, Alençon, France
- ?uvres du FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Paul Valery Museum, Sète, France
Public orders
1997
- Si semblables, Chartreuse de Valbonne, Gard Museum, France
1995
- Volumes peints, lampes, meeting of national museums, France
1992
- Espace peint, Jean-Michel Wilmotte Agency, Paris, France
1990
- L'homme nouveau, Paris, France
- Quick, Jean-Michel Wilmotte Agency, Avignon, France
1989
- Espaces peints, Jean-Michel Wilmotte Agency, Salons de réception, Hôtel de région, Montpellier, France
1982
- 1%, primary School of Mas-des-Gardies, Nîmes, France
public collections
- The regional fund for contemporary art, France
- The regional fund for contemporary art, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
- The regional fund for contemporary art, Basse-Normandie, France
- Cabinet des estampes, National Library, Paris, France
- Réattu Museum, Arles, France
- Beaux-Arts Museum of Caen, France
- Valence Museum, France
- Morlaix Museum, France
- Contemporary Art Museum, Carré D'art, Nîmes, France
- Nîmes Library, France
- Art library of Caen and Grenoble, France
- B.N.P. Paribas collection, New-York, Melbourne, Singapor, Roma
- B.N.P. Paribas collection, Paris, France
- Bank Warburg collection, London, Unated Kingdom
Exhibitions
gallery exhibition
Francis Limérat / Michel Duport
