Arnaud Courlet de Vregille

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Arnaud Courlet de Vregille
Arnaud, en 2007.jpg
Arnaud Courlet de Vregille, in 2007
Born
Arnaud Courlet de Vregille

(1958-03-05) 5 March 1958 (age 67)
Bourges, France
Known forPainting, Printmaking

Arnaud Courlet de Vregille (5 March 1958) is a French painter.

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Biography

Born into a family of painters and collectors related to Otto van Veen, Peter Paul Rubens' teacher, [1] Arnaud Courlet de Vregille began to draw at a very early age and subsequently embarked on a painting-career : paintings, murals (fresco), theatre decors. In 1993, his talent as a painter was revealed when the Institut Supérieur de Paris awarded him a prize for his work Laisse-moi which work was acquired by the Ministry of Finance for the decoration of the Cité Administrative de Bobigny.

The painter lives in Besançon (Doubs) where he pursues his artistic career. His work is known in France [2] [3] but also in Armenia [4] and Russia. [5]

A style

Douard III (1996, Acrylic and pastel, 120 x 80) Arnaud Courlet de Vregille, Douard III, 1996, 120 x 80 cm, Acrylique et pastel.tif
Douard III (1996, Acrylic and pastel, 120 x 80)

The Who's Who Art considers his art as a "lyrical abstraction", "futurism", "spontaneous painting". [6] In 2004, the Encyclopédie des Arts en Franche-Comté dedicated him a reference article :

"Painter who does not fit into any fixed category, exploring the very depths of abstract art in order to bring to the surface the merest of the figurative. His painting, which seems to emerge from a kind of coloured skin, expresses all the warmth of tortured reality. In the words of the artists, he paints his canvases both impulsively and after a phase of blending and condensing which are the fruits of lengthy period of preparation within himself. He marks some of his works with an often partially concealed circle of solitude which shatters to evoke the moment when reality become fragile and crakcks, giving way to the invisible as well as displaying the pulzzing conspicuousness of visible. The emotion which pervades his painting seems to spring from his movement, his violence, his light [7] ".

On the occasion of the bicentenary exhibition of Claude Nicolas Ledoux (renowned French architect of the 18th century) at the Royal Saltworks in Arc-et-Senans, Franche-Comté (site listed as World Heritage by Unesco), the catalog Le deuxième regard wrote :

"The painting of Courlet de Vregille enters into an almost natural relation with the inspiration of Ledoux; indeed both explore those paths which Bachelard referred to as "materialised imagination, that spiritual place where all forms of art converge and meet. [8] "

"Following a very contemporary trend, an expression of the point of view of one art on another, which resumes here in an independent vision the wonder of new discovery", a portrait of the Lumière brothers  : Lumière ou Projection privée (Light or Private projection), is exhibited in l'Eden Théâtre de La Ciotat. L'Eden Théâtre, heritage label of the 20th century, was restored in 2013 within the framework of Marseille-Provence 2013, European capital of culture.

Shows

La baie des Anges (1994, Acrylic, 80 x 60) La baie des Anges, par Arnaud Courlet de Vregille (1994, Encre acrylique 80 x 60).JPG
La baie des Anges (1994, Acrylic, 80 x 60)

Jury of Paris exhibitions

Michael Enfant de Lumiere (2018, Acrylic, 90 x 120) Michael enfant de Lumiere.jpg
Michael Enfant de Lumière (2018, Acrylic, 90 x 120)

Auctioneers Paris exhibitions

Exhibitions

Lumiere ou Projection privee (2010, Acrylic and Pastel, 90 x 120) Lumiere ou Projection privee.jpg
Lumière ou Projection privée (2010, Acrylic and Pastel, 90 x 120)

Distinctions and rewards

Jehanne 1429 (1999, Acrylic and pastel, 60 x 40) Arnaud Courlet de Vregille, Jehanne 1429 (1999, Acrylique et pastel, 60 x 40).JPG
Jehanne 1429 (1999, Acrylic and pastel, 60 x 40)

Sources

Catalogs of exhibitions
Regional press
France télévisions
Lautreamont (2012, Acrylic, 90 x 120) Lautreamont, Arnaud Courlet de Vregille (2012, Acrylique, 90 x 120 cm).jpg
Lautréamont (2012, Acrylic, 90 x 120)
Radio broadcast

Other

References

  1. Catalogue de l'exposition "Le Beau Siècle. La vie artistique à Besançon de la Conquête à la Révolution", cleditions.com, 2022, ISBN   978-2-35290-341-3.
  2. La littérature française pour les nuls.
  3. Pascal-Raphaël Ambrogi, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Joan of Arc, Paris, Desclée De Brouwer, 2017, ISBN 9782220086057, p. 239.
  4. "ʺEndanikʺ: Evénement intitulé ʺVues photographiques animéesʺ dédié à la Francophonie et aux frères Lumière, inventeurs de la cinématographie".
  5. (ru) Вита Хан-Магомедова, Litres, 2018. Litres. 15 May 2022. ISBN   9785041393786.
  6. Who’s Who In International Art, 2002, p. 18 & 78.
  7. Encyclopédie des Arts en Franche-Comté, Jacques Rittaud-Hutinet et Chantal Leclerc, La Taillanderie, ISBN   978-2-87629-297-0, 2004, p. 111.
  8. Le deuxième regard, 2006, p. 32.
  9. "16 e salon artistique ce week-end - 30/06/2017, Richelieu (37) - la Nouvelle République". www.lanouvellerepublique.fr. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  10. "Exposition de l'artiste peintre Arnaud Courlet". estrepublicain.fr (in French). 2023-11-07. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  11. Bnf. 2019.