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 |
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| La peinture d’après, musée Bourdelle, Paris, France | |
| Triptyque, musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France | |
| 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 |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Le jour des peintres, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France |
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| La rose est sans pourquoi, Centre photographique, Rouen, France | |
| 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 |
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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 Release
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
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).
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.
