Méduses luminescentes, 2006-2008

Yves Chaudouet

born 1959 in Paris, active in France.

Blown white glass.
Each piece (diam. from 25 to 60 cm x 100 cm high) is unique.
Dimensions of installation variable.
Courtesy of the artist and of Emanuel von Baeyer

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Selected exhibitions

2008 Château d’Oiron
2007 Fondazione Francesco Messina, Milan (cur. Dominique Marchès)
2006 Les poissons des grandes profondeurs ont pied, Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseille
2005 Biennale de Ljubjana (cur. Marie-Cécile Miessner)
2003 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
2001 Connivence, Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon
2000 Aquarium du Musée des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris
1999 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama (cur. David Moos)
1997 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Selected publications

2009 Coffret Yves Chaudouet, Actes Sud
2008 Dans le Jardin avec François, Actes Sud
2008 Conférence Concertante, Actes Sud/ CNL
2007 Rien N°54, éditions Zédélé
2006 Inaliénable, co-écrit avec Yann Grienenberger (photos Frédéric Goetz), éditions Actes Sud-CIAV
2003 Poisson abyssal, Tiefseefisch, Deep see fish, éditions MeMo
2003 Film, éditions Actes Sud

Yves Chaudouet originally focused on the making of small-scale monotypes of a mysteriously expressive, dream-related or fairy-tale-like character. Nowadays there are no limits to his creativity: from etchings to ultra-precise photographs, from videos to abstract drawings, from installations to figurative paintings, his intuitive working ranges across all areas of the fine arts. He seems at home in the pictorial universe in its entirety, disregarding as meaningless all the categorisations, limitations and boundaries so carefully upheld and expected in the contemporary art market.
(Peter Stephan Jungk, Auf der Suche nach dem Irrlicht. Translation by Anne Puetz).