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| Fabien Verschaere
- Born in 1975 |
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The work of Fabien Verschaere needs to be seen as a whole and as a continual series of personal mythologies. Through blending recurrent symbols such as mermaids, dwarfs and objects together, Verschaere evokes human conditions and experiences whilst assembling a dreamlike theatre that is both intimate and personal.
Although Verschaere’s work seems to be based on contradictions -- attractive and repulsive, exotic but banal, dangerous yet exciting, meaningful though derisory and insignificant, his remarkable observations and unusual depictions of characters and situations provoke ambiguous feelings within his viewers. The result is a body of work with strong foundations and unexpected encounters.
Fabien Verschaere was born in Vincenne (France) in 1975 and lives and works in Paris. He has been exhibited extensively since 2000, including the prestigious Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Prague Biennale, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Italy, the Montreal Biennale and recently at the Lyon Contemporary Art Museum. His most recent museum exhibition was at the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art in U.K.
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| Award / Grants |
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| Public and Private Collections |
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| Selected solo and group exhibitions |
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| 2007 |
After Seven remix, Baltic, Center for Contemporary Art, NewcastleGateshead, UK,
Seven Days Hotel , Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France,
Apocalypse Please , galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France |
| 2006 |
Das Märchen im Glashaus, Institut français, Munich, Germany
Copycat, same in the world , Galica arte contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Notre Histoire , Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Aboslumental , Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Novel of Game, Parcours d'art contemporain , Fontenay-le-Comte, France
Musée de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne, France
Nuit Blanche , Paris, France |
| 2005 |
Ar Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, PRC
“Singuliers”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Grace Alexander Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Traversee Gallery, Munich, Germany
Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
“Kidding Park”, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France
“Emergency Culture“, To-Be-Art Galerie, Saint-Barthelemy
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| 2004 |
“Nothing Else”, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
BAT CampusGallery, Bayreuth, Germany
“Shooting for Fun”, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
“I’ve Got You under My Skin”, Draiocht, Dublin, Irland
Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
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| 2003 |
“Once upon No Time, 49 nights for a poem”, Gallery Michel Rein, Paris, France
FIAC, Paris, France
“No Idea”, Center for Contemporary Creation, Tours, France
A Novel for Life”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
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| 2002 |
Montreal Biennal, Canada
International Center of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
“Drawings XXL”, Nantes, France
Breathing Space, Parc Andre Citroen, France
National Museum of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Paris – Brooklin (with Saadane Afif) at the Parker’s Box of New York, USA
Opening exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
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| 2001 |
“Traversee”, Paris’ Museum of Modern Art, France
“colori del Mediterraneo” at the Ospedidale Sant’Andrea, Rome, Italy
Biennale of Tirana, Albania
“En Outre”, French Cultural Center, Turin, Italy
“Nos Rendez-Vous 3”, National Center for Photography, Paris, France
“Sinceres felicitations”, Zoo gallery, Nantes, France
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