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
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.
Philippe Cognée
PHILIPPE COGNéE – STEPHAN BALKENHOL – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION FERNET-BRANCA, SAINT LOUIS, FRANCEFrom 05/22/2016 to 10/09/2016
Philippe Cognée is exhibiting at Fondation Fernet-Branca in St Louis, France (close to Basel), along with German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol * until October 9th *
Philippe Cognée is questioning the role of painting since 30 years. All of his images are omnipresent, but may also dim into banality. By establishing a relationship between the works of Philippe Cognee and Stephan Balkenhol, the notion of figuration established by each artiste since the 1980s can be examined.
Philippe Cognée
AUX ORIGINES
ABBAYE SAINT-JEAN D'ORBESTIE, LE CHATEAU D'OLONNE, FRANCEFrom 07/04/2015 to 09/06/2015
The exhition at Château d’Olonne focuses on a more confidential aspect of painter Philippe Cognée’s artistic creation : sculpture. The title of the show ‘Back to the roots’ is very evocative, as the works brought together at the Abbaye date back from the 1990’s. Curator Philippe Piguet
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW, C’EST LA NUIT
VILLA TAMARIS, TOULON
Villa Tamaris Art Center holds an exhibition dedicated to theme of the night. Staged as an ambulatory fiction, a track running from the periphery to the heart of the city, it interweaves without hierarchy some paintings, photographs, comics, visual and acoustic installations.
With Antoine d’Agata, Philippe Cognée, Gérard Fromanger, Jacques Monory, Antonio Segui, Hans Op de Beeck, and others.
Philippe Cognée
Iván Navarro
GROUP SHOW, FUTURES
LA VIEILLE CHARITE, MARSEILLE
French painter Philippe Cognée and Chilean sculptor Ivan Navarro join in the large summer exhibition at the Vieille Charité in Marseille. From the beginning of the 20th century until nowadays, gathering works by major artists such as Matisse, Calder or Kandinsky, the exhibition recounts the links and reverse influences in between Art, architecture, science, robotics, scifi and astronomy. More than a hundred works coming from the most prestigious international institutions are offering to view the futuristic universe of modern and contemporary artists.
