SEBASTIEN MEHAL – Memory to the world
MEMORY TO THE WORLD from October 14th to Decemeber 31st 2019. Sébastien Mehal proposes an architectural work on the grouping of buildings in urban areas in outlying areas. The original…
BIOGRAPHY
Engaged alongside the real estate players for the renovation of vacant places in the context of a transitional urbanism, Hanna Ouaziz, director of the TEODORA Galerie, reflects the notion of “Poetic Habitat of the World” by Friedrich Hölderlin (who inspired the name of her agency H.Art).
In the FIAC 2019, from October 14th to November 30th, she chose to give carte blanche to the artist Sébastien Mehal and Anna Sansom, co-curator of the exhibition Memory to the World.
Sébastien Mehal proposes an architectural work on the grouping of buildings in urban areas in outlying areas. The original colors he uses are the colors of exile and the history of each of his exiles, these singular journeys. Surveyor of the urban world, the artist plays with cross-fertilization as boundaries that he pushes back and moves his works to the limits of abstraction.
He strated monochromes quit early in his work, which he developed on large square formats, round or oval. His palette, inspired by body paint colors, ranges from metallic blue to green and gray, to warmer coloros like gold. Nevertheless, is Sébastien aware when he realizes his twelve portraits of the serie Displacement, that he enters in the supremacy of the color ? Not sure … Because as he says himself, the serigraphs of portraits barely perceptible on the canvas hang undeniably on the subject. The transparent coulures that he realizes with the help of large medical and industrial syringes give his works a mastered force, the power of a voluntary act where his artist’s signature imposes itself on the color.
Memoire au Monde would like to be a shared future – reinventing between weights of heritage and the strength of the cultural dimension – revealing possible paths of dialogue. Twelve portraits, both virtual and real, playing a photographic and infographic work, emit a great serenity. The ambivalent expressions of this face merge with each other. The search for a particular technique allowed to uniformly and subtly control the colors, crystallizing the transparency of the faces. The eyes, the nose and the mouth are transformed while the contour remains the same.
ARTWORKS
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PRESS
ABOUT THE ARTIST
2019
Teodora Galerie, Mémoire au monde, Paris
2017
Galerie 14N61W, Accident, Martinique
2016
Galerie Lélia Mordoch, Partir, Paris
Maëlle Galerie, Ubanité, Paris
2015
Fondation Clément, Dé-construction, Martinique
Villa, Centre d’art 47, Portrait, Marseille
2014
L’Artocarpe, en résidence et exposition, Guadeloupe
2011
Heartgalerie, Paintings group, Paris
Galerie Acabas, On-off / In-out, Paris
L’Artocarpe, en résidence et exposition
Paysage & Mémoire, Guadeloupe
2010
Galerie Ephémère, Lueurs, Paris
Première vision, Paris 2010, Paris
2009
Heartgalerie, 1999-2009 paintings, Paris
Heartgalerie, Paysage urbain, Paris
2008
Gallery Pastor, Liberty, Monaco
Heartgalerie, City, Paris
Galerie 96, City, Paris
Cube Galerie, Paintings, Paris
2019
Galerie Musée d’argentine, Colorama, Paris
Gallery 193, Identités Caribéennes, Paris
Glassbox Galerie, Ailleurs, Paris
Galerie Lélia Mordoch, Cinétisme, 1er, 2e, 3e, génération, Paris
Galerie 14N61W, Group exhibition, Martinique
2018
Galerie Lélia Mordoch & Fondation FFFA,
Black expressionism from the Caribbean today, Miami
Galerie 14N61W, Sans Titre, Martinique
2017
Maison des Arts de Bagneux, Mémoire Caraîbes, Bagneux (région parisienne)
2016
Galerie 14N61W, Group Exhibition, Martinique
Galerie Abbas Group, Wien, Autriche
2015
Galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami
2014
Galerie White Projet, La petite collection, Paris
Galerie Lélia Mordoch, Group, Paris – Miami
Heartgalerie, Minimenta groupe, Paris
2013
Espace Fondation EDF, Made in Light, Paris
Fondation Vasarely, Made in Light, Aix-en-Provence
2011
Atelier ramponeau, Représentation, Paris
Artcurial, Hôtel Royal Monceau, Groupe, Paris
Parlement européen collection A.F.C, Construction, Strasbourg
2010
Paris/Berlin Kunst Galerie Berlin, Berlin-Mitte
Fondation Michel Rovelas Basse, Terre, Guadeloupe
2009
Heatgalerie, Peinture et dessin, Paris
Fondation Culiori d’umani EESC, Projects, Bruxelles
Museum Quarter Wien, Made in, Vienne (Autriche)
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Art Protects, Paris
2008
Heartgalerie, Collector Private View, Paris
2007
Dialogues méditerranéennes à Saint-Tropez
Parcours artistique de l’été culturel 2007
Museum Essel, Europe project Wien, Vienne
2006
Centre d’art contemporain Lazaret Ollandini, Art Visitae, Ajaccio (Corse)
2005
Galerie like 76, Mémoire, Paris
Museum Shikoku (Japon)
2004
Galerie Rive Gauche, Rêve, Liberté, Résonance, Paris
Espace Vivendi Universal, Innov’art, Paris
Centre d’art Levallois, Pop art, La French, Levallois-Perret
Galerie Julio Gonzalez, Prix Antoine Marin, Arcueil (région parisienne)
2000
Centre d’art contemporain, Monde extérieur, Osaka (Japon)
Centre d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Horizon, Montpellier
1999
Chapelle de la Salpetrière, Hop Art, Paris
Espace Reuilly, Art de ville et Art d’exile, Ville de Paris, Paris
1994
Cloître de l’hôpital Cochin, île & Exile, Paris
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2017
Galerie Artemisa – Contemporary Latin American Art, New York, USA
Trumpomania, Salomon Gallery, New York, USA
- 2016
Sugarlift Open Studio, New York, USA
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2015
Trophy Art, McCaig-Welles Gallery et AZART Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
Summer Show, Artemisa Contemporary Latin American Art, New York, USA
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2014
Paseo de las Artes, Casona Mauá, Montevideo, Uruguay
Abstract Art Now 2014, Online Collection, Saatchi, avec Rebecca Wilson
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2013
Traces, Interiors of Washington, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
CurateNYC2013 par Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain, Londres, Royaume-Uni
- 2009
Los nuevos adultos del arte nacional, Revista Galeria, Montevideo, Uruguay
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2006
IFA Gallery, Shanghai, Chine
2018
Art Fair I Scope Art Show, Miami (USA)
Art Fair UNTITLED, Miami
Art Fair UNTITLED, Miami
2017
Art Fair UNTITLED, Miami
2016
Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2015
Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
Art Fair Elysees, Paris
Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
Art Fair Elysees, Paris
2014
Art Fair Elysees, Paris
Art Fair Elysees, Paris
2013
Slick Art Fair, Paris
Slick Art Fair, Paris
2011
Art Paris just art, Paris
Art Paris just art, Paris
2010
Paris/Berlin 2010, Berlin-Mitte (Allemagne)
Paris/Berlin 2010, Berlin-Mitte (Allemagne)
2009
Slick Art Fair, Paris
FIAC, Paris
Art Paris, Grand palais, Paris
Slick Art Fair, Paris
FIAC, Paris
Art Paris, Grand palais, Paris
2008
Divafair Digital & Vidéo, Paris
Hot Art Basel, Suisse
Art fair Artists, Istanbul (Turquie)
Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand,Installation vidéo
Divafair Digital & Vidéo, Paris
Hot Art Basel, Suisse
Art fair Artists, Istanbul (Turquie)
Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand,Installation vidéo
2015
Dé-construction – Fondation Clément
2008
CITY catalogue Heatgalerie Paris + Galerie 96 Paris
2006
Depression and Society, In Journey into the Heart of Bipolarity, édition John Libbey
