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Selected Works
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Philippe Pasqua Revisited, Krystel Ann Art
Monomania | Philippe PASQUA, Galerie RX
2019
‘Versus’, The Storage Saint-Ouen-L’Aumône, France
2017
Memento Mori, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Boarderline, Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
2012
Philippe Pasqua; Re:LIFE, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Work in Progress: The Storage, Paris
Philippe Pasqua, Galerie RX, Paris
Philippe Pasqua in London, Opera Gallery, London
Philippe Pasqua, Gallery Hyundai, Séoul
2011
Philippe Pasqua, White Moon Gallery, Paris
Philippe Pasqua, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris
Philippe Pasqua – Absolute Art Gallery – Knokke, Knokke
2010
Palimpsestes, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris
Mea Culpa, The Storage, Paris
Philippe Pasqua: Painting and Drawing, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2009
Philippe Pasqua, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte / Kestner Pro Arte, Hannover
Crâne, ArtCurial, Paris
Crâne, Isola di San Servolo, Venice
2007
Philippe Pasqua: Pulsion, Galerie RX, Paris
2006
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Galerie RX, Paris, France
Centre culturel de la ville de Montceau-les Mines, France
Galerie Hengevoss Dürkop-Jensen, Hamburg, Germany
2005
Centre culturel de la ville de Metz, France
2004
Métamorphoses, Galerie RX, Paris, France
2003
‘Lucille’, Paris, France
2002
Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France, ‘Les Miroires de l´Âme’ (Portraits 1989-2001) curator Erick Öge
2002
Bloc Portrait, Galerie Hengevoss Dürkop-Jensen, Hamburg, Germany
2001
Trauma, Galerie Hengevoss Dürkop-Jensen, Hamburg, Germany
1999
Galerie Lucien Durand – Le Gaillard, Paris, France
Enquête de Corps Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France
1998
Espace Yvonamar Palix, Mexico City, Mexico
Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, United Kingdom, curator Erick Öge
1996
Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France
1995
Château de Grouchy, France
Espace Dautzenberg, Brussels, Belgium
The International Center, Detroit, USA
1991
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Artworks
"Le couple de rhinocéros" - Bronze sculpture and oil - 100X30X70 cm - 2017
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"Sans titre" - Oil on canvas - 100x80 cm - 2014
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"Crâne aux papillons" - Mixed technique - 120X80 cm - 2014
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Face Off - 2016
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"Philippine" - Oil on canvas - 180X160 cm - 2014
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"Sans titre" - Mixed technique - 110X130 cm - 2014
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"Leo" - felt pen on tracing paper- 280x190 cm - 2016
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"Olivier en bronze" - Bronze sculpture (white) - Installation with skulls - 150X120X60 cm - 2019
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"Olivier en bronze" - Bronze sculpture (black) - Installation with skulls - 150X120X60 cm - 2019
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Mixed media on velvet
120 x 120 cm
1997
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Biography
Born in Grasse in 1965, self-taught French sculptor and painter Philippe Pasqua began painting at the age of 17 after being deeply struck by a reproduction of one of Francis Bacon’s paintings. The influence of Lucian Freud's work also helped construct his vision of a world of troubled and troubling characters, their faces marked or misshapen. The fragility of the madman and the difference of disability are recurring themes that haunt his work.
As a sculptor, he has been exploring the topic of vanitas since 1987. His concern: to find the essence of humanity through what remains of it beyond life.
He works on representing the material that composes it, the cladding of flesh and bone as mortal as it is timeless: the eternity of the matrix. According to Pasqua: "The skeleton, the skull, it is precisely what I can never see or paint but what carries the flesh."
The artist’s powerful style, both in painting and sculpture, asserts itself in a fantastical and esote
Philippe Pasqua: Borderline
The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco presents the monographic Borderline exhibition by artist Philippe Pasqua. His monumental works, most of which have been tailor-made for this show, will stand alongside the Museum’s mythical collection to create a unique dialogue.
In his work Philippe Pasqua experiments with the notion of limits. He flirts with the brink, brushes against boundaries and breaks free of them. Violent and raw, his oeuvre disturbs as much as it fascinates, placing the visitor in a dilemma: to gaze intently or to turn away, a mechanism of defence rather than one of indifference. “Pasqua questions, raises concerns and unsettles his audience, but never leaves unmoved. His work provides the ideal trigger for raising awareness in favour of marine and terrestrial life,” explains Robert Calcagno, director of the Oceanographic Museum.
Inspired by the architecture and aware of the environmental commitment of the Oceanographic Museum, the artist offers an exhibition that reflects the sincere and multi-faceted personality of the location. 12 monumental creations, including seven unseen works, occupy the entire space—from the square in the front of the Museum and its panoramic terrace, to the cliff on which the building is perched.
Challenging society about its relationship with nature
Philippe Pasqua’s penchant for the monumental is in contrast with his attraction to the vulnerable and profound. Faults and cracks are shown in size XXL. This instinctive artist does not theorise about his work and leaves visitors free to interpret it. In his view, art goes beyond the spoken and the visible. “Beauty is evocative power,” he explains. A work is beautiful because of the emotion it produces, the blow it deals to the heart.
In this century-old palace dedicated to art and science, the artist expresses his sensitivity and questions his audience’s relationship with nature, death, and rebirth. “Building DAMIEN HIRST & PHILIPPE PASQUA, Damien HIRST VS Philippe PASQUA 06 December 2012 - 23 January 2013 2 Av. Matignon, 75008 Paris Presentation For this exhibition entitled "Skull" which will take place from December 7, 2012 to January 23, 2013, Galerie Laurent Strouk brings together two major artists of contemporary art Damien Hirst and Philippe Pasqua around the theme of vanity.
Each of them through recent and unpublished paintings, sculptures and drawings delivers a powerful and personal interpretation of this subject. Damien Hirst in the color and in the projection Philippe Pasqua in the darkness and in the expressionism of a painting all in thickness. Vanity is a recurring theme that punctuates the work of these two artists and gives them the opportunity to show a contemporary image of this subject studied since antiquity. Damien Hirst since the 80s deals with the relationship between art, life, illness and death. This is evidenced by his series "Pharmacy" and "Medicine Cabinet". In his work the skull can take the form of a sculpture covered in diamonds (For the Love of God) or be the subject of a black and white painting (Hydrochloric Acid). But Hirst also chooses to make the skull the representation of the transience of life. The "spin skull paintings" could evoke the Big Bang with their explosions of color. The skull breaking apart in the center of the canvas represents Life and Death: "born of dust you will return to dust". These works carry a message: if death is certain and eternal it can also be beautiful. Philippe Pasqua has been collecting human skulls since the 1990s. He covers them with gold or silver leaves and naturalized butterflies. His butterfly vanities can also be cast in bronze and covered with different patinas or sculpted in monumental blocks of Carrara marble.
Finally, they are used as subjects for mixed media, a mixture of drawings and paintings on paper.
On the occasion of this exhibition Philippe Pasqua has painted