Erick Derac

Renowned Artist

Saint Mandé (94), France
32 works

Erick Derac is a painter - photographer - designer - colorist - cartographer. "Erick Derac breaks the conventions of the photographic medium by intervening directly on the ektachrome (silver positive film) before it is even used for the print. To intervene, that is to say, to damage, dirty, scratch, cover with paints, coloured films, scraps of tape, hair, dust, this famous dust that Duchamp had already elevated to the rank of a work of art.  [...] It is a parallel world that slips between the eye and the image, a conglomerate of materials and particles as unique as it can be familiar. A world that shifts the boundaries of reality, transforms the known into an orphan continent (series Dérives), into an unpublished topography (series Sources and Tu n'es poussières), into impetuous and offbeat abstraction (series Leurre and Partage d'espaces).   With his reworked photographs, Erick Derac builds a strange alchemy, both seductive and monstrous. "Liv Taylor for PARIS-ART.com

Graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes[DNSEP] and the ICPA Cahors photography school.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS :

2018: "Erick Derac", NATIXIS Wealth Management, NATIXIS Headquarters, PARIS

2016: "Erick Derac", Head Office C'M'S Office Francis Lefebvre, NEUILLY sur SEINE

2015: "EspaceCouleurTemps" Little Big Galerie, PARIS

2011: Corrected landscapes, Chapelle des Ursulines, LANNION Corrected landscapes, Galerie V, LA ROCHELLE. [catalogue]

2010: Smart Dust, Charlotte Norberg Gallery, PARIS

2008: Manipulated, composed and designed, Musée Géo-Charles, ÉCHIROLLES . catalogue] / Duplex Gallery, TOULOUSE / Defrost Gallery, PARIS / Manipulated, composed and designed, Galerie municipale, VITRY . [catalogue]

GROUP EXHIBITIONS :

2014: "Espaces", Artyfact lab gallery, PARIS

2012: "L'art est dans la ville", Maison des projets, VITRY -SUR-SEINE

2011: CHIC Art Fair, Revealing Agency, PARIS 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art, VINCENNNES

2010: CHIC Art Fair, Galerie Charlotte Norberg, PARIS / "What brought them closer then..." Charlotte Norberg Gallery, PARIS

2009: Slick Dessin, contemporary art fair, Defrost Gallery (Paris) and Galerie Duplex (Toulouse), PARIS. [catalogue]

2008: Slick 2008, contemporary art fair, Defrost Gallery, PARIS. catalogue] / "Uninterrupted conversations" recent acquisitions, Geo-Charles Museum, Scrapbooks

2007: Photo Miami 2007, contemporary art fair, "The New Art Project", MIAMI

2006: Defrost Gallery, PARIS

2005: Zweiter Berliner KunstSalon - Art Forum, BERLIN. catalogue] / "From sgraffito to graffiti", Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, BRUSSELS. catalogue] / "Urban poetry", Iris Centre for Photography, PARIS

2004: Gallery l'Usine, BRUSSELS "à plus - junge Kunst aus Frankreich", Kolonie Wedding, BERLIN. [catalogue]

Erick Derac's artwork

Vivid colour hyper modern art [d]

$13,114

Mixed media (200 x 250 cm)