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
Valerio Adami
Philippe Cognée
Gérard Garouste
Pierre et Gilles
« MOI JE » – GROUP SHOW
Biennale de l’UNAM (Union Méditerranéenne pour l’Art Moderne)
Château-Musée Grimaldi, Haut-de-Cagnes – Place du Château, Cagnes-sur-Mer
From June 12, 2021 to January 3, 2022
The UNAM Biennale gathers around forty artists who illustrate with originality and talent their vision of “Moi, Je” and its present and future challenges in the mutations of an obviously dangerous society and withdrawal into oneself.
Philippe Cognée
« LES APPARENCES » 50 PEINTRES CONTEMPORAINS DE LA SCèNE FRANçAISE – GROUP SHOW
À cent mètres du centre du monde, contemporary art center
3 avenue de Grande Bretagne, Perpignan
From June 20 to September 12, 2021
The exhibition presents painters using the world of appearances as their reference. In a wide variety of theme, style and ambition, all of these painters question reality with this particular medium that plays with the visible with visible materials: pigments, surfaces, the sculptural aspect of the painting. The variety of the painters in the exhibition is reflected in their confidence in the medium that is the painting: this immemorial need to represent the unspeakable of appearances by the presence of a painting.
Philippe Cognée
Pierre et Gilles
BLOOMING – GROUP EXHIBITION
From June 3 to November 15, 2021
Domaine Pommery, 5 Place du Général Gouraud, Reims
The exhibition “BLOOMING” is opening the new exhibition space of the Domaine de Pommery, the “Cellier Pompadour”, and celebrates the time of rebirth and blossoming of nature and men by bringing together artists from the past and from today. Dedicated to painting, ceramics, drawing and figurative photography, this majestic Eiffel-type space of over 900 square meters magnificently enriches the 55-hectare estate. This first exhibition in the ”Cellier Pompadour” gathers 61 artists including Pierre et Gilles and Philippe Cognée, and is curated by Nathalie Vranken, Catherine Delot – Director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Reims, Chief Heritage Curator – and Fabrice Bousteau – Exhibition Curator and Director of the editorial staff of Beaux-Arts magazine.
Philippe Cognée
PAYSAGES RéVéLéS – SOLO SHOW
From May 15 to the end of December, 2020
Domaine de Chaumont-Sur-Loire
Come enjoy the new Philippe Cognée’s exhibition untitled ‘’Paysages Révélés’’. Located at the Domaine de Chaumont-Sur-Loire, France, with about 30 paintings displayed in the western and southern wings of the castel. You will be able to discover all kinds of landscapes : from cultured fields to wild meadows, trees, and deep forest… sometimes seen from a train window. The show will be on view until the end of the year.
Philippe Cognée
EIGHTIES AND ECHOES – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE DE L'ABBAYE SAINTE_CROIX, LES SABLES D'OLONNE, FRANCE From 09/06/2019 to 22/09/2019
The new pictorial approaches that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s set themselves against a domination of abstraction and a reductive avant-garde ideology: dictate of rupture, death of the painting, linear and progressive vision art. However, since the beginning of their training at the Beaux-Arts, a new generation of painters choose to re-examine the tradition of painting, the figure, the illusion of depth, feeding on a multitude of models. The exhibition “Aux sources du 1980s” questions their imaginary museum. Looking at different relationships to the past, understood as a way of renewing painting, the works that are showcased interact sometimes with a specific model, sometimes reactivate traditional subjects around three major themes: the individual and society, love and otherness, nature and the sacred.
Philippe Cognée
LA MATIèRE REMUéE – SOLO SHOW
ESPACE PAUL REBEYROLLE, EYMOUTIERS, FRANCE From 5/28/2017 to 11/26/2017
In 2017, the Espace Paul Rebeyrolle welcomes Philippe Cognée. Under the direction of curator Philippe Piguet, the exhibition will display a group of forty artworks, paintings and sculptures from the 2000s. The French painter, with his original technique, emphasizes the ambiguity of the visible in luminous, disturbing and blurry representations, where the subject is absorbed into matter to attein a dissolution of the real. Accompanying this exhibition, a catalogue will be edited by the Espace Paul Rebeyrolle.
Pierre et Gilles
Philippe Cognée
Jan Fabre
Chiharu Shiota
Yue Minjun
DANIEL TEMPLON – PORTRAIT OF A GALLERY
INSTITUT CULTUREL BERNARD MAGREZ, BORDEAUX, FRANCEFrom 3/09/2017 to 6/25/2017
On the 9th of March 2017, the Cultural Institute Bernard Magrez, leading centre for arts and culture in Bordeaux, pays tribute to Daniel Templon through an important exhibition organised at the Château Labottière. With over 600 exhibitions and 250 artists, the world-renowned French galerist, always knew to pay particular attention to the artistic avant-garde. The exhibition, portrays Daniel Templon, pioneer and major figure of the art world, featuring five major artists of his gallery, offering different artistic styles: Philippe Cognée, Jan Fabre, Pierre et Gilles, Yue Minjun and Chiharu Shiota.
Philippe Cognée
FIGURES ENVISAGéES – SOLO SHOW
LE RADAR, BAYEUX, FRANCEFrom 06/11/2016 to 09/18/2016
Le Radar hosts every year a summer exhibition devoted to one or more major contemporary artistes. After Fromanger, Viallat or Villeglé, selected works of another great name of the contemporary art scène will be on view.
Philippe Cognée defends a sensitive and accessible approach to art; his work reflects his constant research and his high requirements. Philippe Cognée screens reality and puts it to the test with a single gesture: at the risk of destruction, he shows us a powerful and fascinating representation of fragile and mysterious figures caught in an elusive world.
