Philippe Cognée
The artist
Philippe Cognée was born in 1957 in Nantes, France, where he lives and works. His paintings use wax that is heated and crushed, producing a blurred effect and raising questions such as the thinning away of the image and the human condition in the light of humans’ relationship to their urban environment. The artist draws inspiration from photos and videos of elements such as motorways, buildings and aerial shots. His work questions the role of art in a society where new digital technologies have ushered in the era of the image, both omnipresent and diminished.
Exhibitions
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Paysages insomniaques
September 03 - October 29, 2022
Paris - Beaubourg -
Eye of the storm
September 9 - October 23, 2021
Brussels -
Carne dei fiori
January 11 - March 7, 2020
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
Nocturnes
October 26 - December 23, 2017
Brussels -
Crowds
January 7 - March 4, 2017
Paris - Beaubourg -
Territoires
January 15 - February 21, 2015
Brussels -
Les Architectes
January 10 - February 23, 2013
Paris - Beaubourg -
Passages
October 31 - December 23, 2009
Paris - Beaubourg -
Carcasses
March 1 - April 5, 2008
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
Blossom
October 21 - November 28, 2006
Paris - Beaubourg -
Triades
June 5 - July 25, 2003
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1957 in Nantes |
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| Residence | Lives and works in Nantes |
| Education | 1982 Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | Le réel sublimé, musée de Tessé (musée des Beaux-Arts), Le Mans, France La peinture d’après, musée Bourdelle, Paris, France Triptyque, musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France |
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| 2022 | Paysages insomniaques, Galerie Templon, Paris, France La figure incarnée, Chapelle de la Visitation – Espace d’art contemporain, Thonon-les-Bains, France |
| 2021 | L'œil du cyclone, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2020 | Philippe Cognée, Chapelle de la Visitation – Espace d’art contemporain, Thonon-les-Bains, France Paysages révélés, Centre d’arts et de nature, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France Carne dei fiori, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
| 2018 | Philippe Cognée, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea Philippe Cognée, Espace Jacques Villeglé, Saint Gratien, France |
| 2017 | Philippe Cognée, Galerie Templon, Paris, France Philippe Cognée, Baker McKenzie, Paris, France La Matière remuée, Espace Paul Rebeyrolle, Eymoutiers, France |
| 2016 | Philippe Cognée – figures envisagées, Le Radar, Bayeux, France |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | La rose est sans pourquoi, Centre photographique, Rouen, France |
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| 2023 | Picasso 50 ans déjà, Centre Culturel Barbizon, Barbizon, France Les professeurs gribouillent aussi, Cabinet des Dessins Jean Bonna, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Temporality_Capturing the transience of present moment, MOT (Modules of Temporality), Kyiv, Ukraine |
| 2022 | De la Nature, musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France Fleurs !, La Fabrique – Centre d’art, Montreuil, France Exodes, Saint Raphaël, France Lourd léger, les états du corps, L’Atelier Blanc & Le Moulin des Arts de St-Rémy, Villefranche-de-Rouergue and Saint-Rémy, France |
| 2021 | Quand la matière devient art, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France Sans tambours ni trompettes – À la frontière du rêve, Le Consulat général de France à Shanghai, West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China « Moi je », Biennale de l’UNAM, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France « Les apparences » 50 peintres contemporains de la scène française, À cent mètres du centre du monde – Art center, Perpignan, France Blooming, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France |
| 2019 | De leur temps (Triennale), Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Atlas. A Cartography of Donation, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts – MCBA, Lausanne, Switzerland Aux sources des années 80 - Eighties and Echoes, Musée de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix (MASC), Les Sables d'Olonne, France Persona grata, Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France |
| 2018 | Stories from the city, Centre d'Art le LAIT, Albi, France Rien de trop, L'Atelier, Nantes, France Persona Grata, Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France L´Inventaire Vol. 8, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France Intime, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Peintures des artistes de la galerie, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2017 | L´être monde - Mémoires du corps, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France Accrochage de fin d'été, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland Concerné par son époque, Galerie Claire Gastaud, Paris, France Iconomania, MAIF Social Club, Paris, France Daniel Templon – Portrait d’une galerie, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France | |
| Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France | |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France | |
| Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France | |
| Collection SACEM, Neuilly-sur Seine, France | |
| Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France | |
| Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France |
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AWARDS
| 2010 | Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur |
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| 1982 | Grand Prix de Rome |
Press
Arts Libre (La Libre Belgique) - septembre 2021
Superbe retour de Cognée chez Templon
Roger Pierre Turine
Harper's Bazaar Art China - october 2020
Philippe Cognée : Le Citta e la memoria
Arts Libre (La Libre Belgique) - janvier 2017
Le monde disloqué de Philippe Cognée
Roger Pierre Turine
Art Absolument - novembre 2012
Philippe Cognée
News
Philippe Cognée
LA ROSE EST SANS POURQUOI
Group show
Centre photographique Rouen Normandie, Rouen
From January 19 to May 11, 2024
On the occasion of the group show La Rose est sans pourquoi, Philippe Cognée will be exhibiting his work Tournesol from January 19, 2024 at the Centre photographique Rouen Normandie. The exhibition brings together nine artists, photographers and painters who have made the flower a leitmotif in their work, either temporarily or over the long term.
Philippe Cognée
SOLO SHOW – PHILIPPE COGNÉE
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
From March 15 to September 4, 2023
On the occasion of the hanging of some of his works at the musée de l’Orangerie, Philippe Cognée has created a series of new works that take a sharp and subtle look at Monet’s Water Lilies.
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – TEMPORALITY_CAPTURING THE TRANSIENCE OF PRESENT MOMENT
Modules of Temporality, Kiev
From February 16 to April 30, 2023
On the occasion of the exhibition Temporality_Capturing the transience of present moment in Kiev, Philippe Cognée exhibits two works until April 30, 2023.
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – LES PROFESSEURS GRIBOUILLENT AUSSI…
Cabinets d’arts graphiques, Paris
From February 8 to April 21, 2023
As part of the exhibition “Les professeurs gribouillent aussi…” at the Cabinet d’arts graphiques, Philippe Cognée will exhibit an artwork from February 8, 2023.
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – DE LA NATURE
Musée de Grenoble
From October 22, 2022 to March 19, 2023
The Musée de Grenoble invites Philippe Cognée, beside Cristina Iglesias, Wolfgang Laib and Giuseppe Penonefour, whose practices are deeply rooted to the ratio between human and nature. For Philippe Cognée, the only painter selected, landscape apears in his work as a couterpoint to his famous urban views, expressing an ordered chaos, both original and vital ; wild and threatening.
James Casebere
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – EXODES
Philippe Cognée, James Casebere - Exodes
ville de Saint-Raphaël
From July 1st to September 30, 2022
“ExodeS” is a particular cultural event because of its conception, invading, for one summer, a city rich in history and migrations since Antiquity. The exhibition is installed in temporary structures, taking possession of emblematic places and monuments, squares and gardens, unusual places, seashores where it is good to stroll, rest, look.
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – LOURD LéGER, LES éTATS DU CORPS
Philippe Cognée - Lourd, Léger, les états du corps
Moulin des Arts, Saint-Rémy
From June 25 to September 4, 2022
The body in all its states is a fundamental data of the contemporary creation: painting, drawing, print, installation, ceramics, videogram… Externalized, reified in a way, it departs from the poignant authenticity of the body of the artist of Body Art. The body that we guess, that we cross, that imposes itself, that falls, that flies away, that spreads, that we divide… Everything is about weight, breath and matter. Lourd léger tells the story of a body in search of rest, humor, gravity and fantasy. Classical art has bequeathed us a body of metamorphoses and reveries.
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – FLEURS !
Philippe Cognée - Fleurs !
La Fabrique - Centre d'art, Montreuil
Through June 20, 2022
Here, the flower topic seems to reconnect with the fundamentals of painting, evoking traditional Flemish still life bouquets as well as Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe. Through this process, however, Philippe Cognée is also confronting the fundamentals of his own practise. His proliferating flowers echo a nature full of magic and mystery, as fragile as it is indomitable. They act as the “memento mori” haunting many of his past series such as those dedicated to recycling factories (2005), vanities (2006) and slaughterhouses (2008).
