Sébastien Grenier

Emerging artist

Saint Antonin Noble Val (82), France
48 works

The relationship with nature has been at the heart of Sébastien Grenier’s artistic work for more than fifteen years. His research leads him to apprehend the raw nature as a form of incarnate truth, plural, a set of forces. Experiencing the landscape, the elements that make it up, is preponderant and is part of an initiatory journey. All of his work is characterized by a certain attraction for origins, the primitive, but also reflects the impermanence of things, their constant mutations, the mysterious organization of chaos. The absence of human presence, familiar objects or architectural elements, the loss of reference points of scale, perspective or temporality lead to a total immersion and a direct reconnection, free from the prism of culture, to matter and living things. In this way, it testifies to a desire to restore nature to our sight, our memory, this intimate and collective memory, which underpins and connects us. Using painting, photography, mixed techniques, digital experiments, collages, Sébastien Grenier has developed a unique writing style. His work is also divided between immersion in the heart of nature and fitness in the workshop or darkroom. After more than forty years spent in the major cities of Paris, Nantes and Bordeaux, he opened his studio in 2013 in the small village of St Antonin Noble Val in the heart of the Aveyron gorges.

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1990-91: ENSAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs), Paris

1987-90: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et Métiers d’Art Olivier de Serres, Paris

1986-87: Académie d’art Roederer (drawing, painting), Paris

2017: "CURIOSITIES", Atelier Sébastien Grenier - "COSMOS, Order and Disorders", Atelier Sébastien Grenier - "CROSSING BORDERS" (ARTPOSITION 2017, collective), Mairie de St Antonin Noble Val

2016: "STABILE MOBILE" (ARTPOSITION 2016, collective). Mayor of St Antonin Noble Val

2015: "MÉSOZOÏQUE", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strings on Sky - "ARTPOSITION 2015" (collective), Town Hall of St Antonin Noble Val

2014: "THE PHOTOGRAPHIC FUND OF THE CARRE AMELOT" (collective) Former arsenal market, La Rochelle

2012: "JUNGLE VARIATIONS", Galerie Vertige, Bordeaux

2010: "VÉGÉTAL EVOCATIONS, 9 artists beat around the bush" (collective), Orangerie du Jardin des Plantes, Nantes

2009: "BIRTHS, RENAISSANCES", (collective) Galerie L’Ouroboros, Nantes

2008: "AU FIL DU TEMPS, LE JOURNAL D’UNE ARAIGNÉE", Confluence Gallery, Nantes - "CLIMAX", L’Ouroboros Gallery, Nantes

2006: "CONTEMPORARY ART AND BIODIVERSITY" (collective), Festival d’Art contemporain en Périgord pourpre

2005: "ROBINSON OR THE INSIDE ISLAND", Galerie du Carré Amelot, La Rochelle

2003: 7th CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris - CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW, Domaine de Clères, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Haute Normandie - "REVES D’ANIMAUX" Gallery du Carré Amelot, La Rochelle

2000: MONTH OFF OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY: "TWELVE ANIMAL DREAMS" Galerie Espace Regards, Paris - Centre des Bords de Marne, Le Perreux-sur-Marne.

Sébastien Grenier's artwork

Wildman LXXXIX

$508

Digital Prints (60 x 50 cm)