Gilles Balmet was born in 1979. He has lived in Paris since 2004. He is an artist. Painter, drawer, video maker and photographer. He has studios in Paris and Grenoble where he constantly experiments with new ways of creating images. He graduated from the Ecole supérieure d'art of Grenoble in 2003,
The exhibition presents a collection of important recent artworks from different series such as Silver mountains, Waterfalls, Silver reliefs, Rubber soul and Ciels variables and other, older artworks that outline a genealogy of his work, all oscillating between abstraction and representation of the landscape by using processes of creation of images, specially developed by Gilles Balmet in his studio-laboratories, in their elaboration. These artworks sometimes evoke photography without being photographs, by mixing drawing, painting, physical and chemical reactions, oppositions of materials, gestures and diverse manipulations of paper mediums, and will occupy different areas of the mediatheque. Gilles Balmet is represented in France by the Dominique Fiat gallery in Paris.
The Gilles Balmet / Somewhere here on Earth catalogue was published in 2011, in parallel with the exhibition at the Musée Géo Charles, by éditions Fage.
MÉDIATHÈQUE MARGUERITE DURAS
115 Rue de Bagnolet 75020 Paris
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