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Léon Garreaud de Mainvilliers
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The memory of earth
There is a moment of absolute truth between Art and Architecture, an epiphany when man tries to control the unfathomable immensity with poetry and tries to settle in a place in accordance with ancestral rituals. In a more or less intuitive manner, man defines his territory and establishes permeable limits, which define his relation to “others”. This first clear and precise architectural move, this delineation which is engraved in the earth, this rare and radical “founding moment” , has fuelled my research.
My experience as a Franco-Chilean architect who was born in the Atacama desert, my passion for archaeology and the choice of engraving have been influenced by the desire to reconstruct a story packed under stratum, by the need to dust corroded remains and make ruins and drained territories speak in order to understand the urban and social evolution of places through “built residue”.
Engraving, like architecture, belongs to time.
I offer a memorial and archaeological approach of the ground between aerial view and excavations of the land. My works consist of deep spatial reflexions, real stratum’ “constructions” where the tense relationship between masses is defined by the depth of “emptiness”. The control of this unstable balance between bodies and interstices, makes it possible to reveal this moment of truth when the elements start coexisting in a constantly mutating major “space.”
Born in 1978 in Chili
EDUCATION
2015
Foundation CIEC - "International center of Contemporary Egraving"
Scholarship "Madrid Fine Art Circle", Betanzos, Espagne
2014
HEDERA Printmaking Studio, Shirin Salehi Artist (Spanish engraving national price), Madrid, Espagne
Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro, Palma de Majorque, Espagne
2013 - 2014
Casa de Velazquez (CVZ), Artis/engraver member, French Academy, Madrid, Espagne
1997 / 2013
Expertise engraving, Lithography and screen printing
Fine art workshop (ABA Ville de Paris), Paris, France
Experimental workshop "Factoria Panamericana", Santiago, Chili
Art School P.U.C, Santiago, Chili
1997 / 2005
Architect at Catholic University of Chili (P.U.C) / Santiago du Chili / Double Mention
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Murmures, Galerie David Ghezehbash, Paris, France
2013
Territoires Garvés, L'Avant Scène, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
2nd Interation Triennial of Graphic Arts, Invitation, Livno, Bosnie Herzégovine
NOIR, Atelier Sobre Papel, Vincennes, France
Dialogos, Oeuvre Graphique FVB, Monastery Nuestra Senora del Prado, Valladolid, Espagne
Journée de l'Estampe Contemporaine, Stand "Lauréats Prix Regner",Saint Sulpice, Paris, France
2019
Oeuvres sur papier, Invitation, The Cake Club, Santiago, Chili
Journée de l'Estampe Contemporaine, Chaume-Garreaud-Andrault, Saint Sulpice, Paris, France
2018
9e Internacional Printmaking Biennal Douro, Invitation, Vallée du fleuve DOURO, Alijo, Portugal
Obra Gráfica Fundación Venancio Blanco, Monastère Santo Domingo de la Cruz, Salamanca, Espagne
COLLECTION / Estampes des Ateliers Moret, Siège Manifestampe, Paris, France
Mémoires Visuelles with Le Collectionneur Moderne, Nice, France
70 Ans de l’Atelier Moret, Mairie du 5e Arrondissement, Paris, France
2017
Neuf Lauréats du prix Regner - Lhotellier, Prix 2015, Siège MANIFESTAMPE, Paris, France
Salon d'Automne, Invitation, Section Gravure, Grand Palais / Champs Elysées, Paris, France
Lumières, VIII International Biennale of engraving, Saint-Maur des Fossés, France
3rd GLOBAL PRINT 2017, Invitation, Vallée du Douro, Portugal
Carton matière à graver avec “ Carton Extrême Carton”, Le Plessis Trévise, France
Grabados y Esculturas Fundación Venancio Blanco, Itinérance, Palencia, Segovia, Espagne
ROULEZ JEUNESSE, Ateliers Moret, Paris Ve, France
Les jeunes poussent with “Graver Maintenant”, Espace l’Ermitage, Rueil-Malmaison, France
2016
Mémoires visuelles with “Le Collectionneur Moderne”, Espace Thorigny, Paris, France
Dessins de Graveurs with “La Taille et le Crayon”, Fondation Taylor, Paris, France
Diptyque, Tripyque, Polyptique with the “JGC”, Town hall of VI, Paris, France
PRIX REGNER, Stand Association Amis d’Alfred-Georges Regner, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France
Estampe Vivante with Graver maintenant, Espace l’Entracte,Avray, France
Assemblage(s), with “Graver Maintenant”, Espace l’Ermitage, Rueil-malmaison, France
2015
Traces, VII International Biennale of Engraving, Saint-Maur des Fossés, France
10 Artistes à l’Hôtel de Croisilles, Galerie “ZEUXIS”, Paris, France
Máster CIEC 2015, Contemporary Engraving International center, Betanzos, Espagne
PARAL-LELISMES, Reial Cercle Artístic de SANT LLUC, Barcelone, Espagne
Jeunes Artistes à l’ ”Espace O”, Galerie “KUNST”, Barrio Lastarria, Santiago, Chili
Itinérance, Manoir de la Touche, Musée Dobrée, Nantes, France
Artistes de la Casa de Velazquez, Fondation Fuendetodos Goya, Saragosse , Espagne
2014/2015
Itinérance, Residents Artists Exhibition “Casa de Velázquez
(1) AFM / French Academy of Madrid, Espagne
(2) Monastory Santa María de Veruela, Saragosse, Espagne
(3) Espace EOF, Paris, France
(4) Musée Dobrée, Nantes , France
2014
Petit format, Maison du Chili, Paris, France
SOULAGES et son époque, Les Ateliers de la Scierie, Fondamente, France
Un Dia en la casa de Velazquez, CVZ Exhibition, Madrid, Espagne
La Bolsa y la Vida, Curator Pablo Sycet, Homage to José Guerrero, Espagne
2013
Estampa, XXI Edition, Stand CVZ, Cultural Center “Matadero” · Madrid, Espagne
AWARDS
2016
Prix 'Regner-Lhotellier" compensating for the whole work of an engraver artsits, France
International Biennale of Engraving
2015
Price "Jean Couy" to young artsit (-40 ans)
Price ANKARIA
2014
Price Georges Widenstein, Fine Art Academy, Paris, France
PUBLICATIONS
2020
Catalogue "2nd International Triennial og Graphic Arts", Livno, Bosnie Herzégovine
2018
Catalog "9e International Printmaking Biennial Douro", Alijo, Portugal
Catalog "9e International Triennial of Graphic Arts", Bitola, Macédoine
2017
Catalog "LUMIERES" / 8ème Biennale, Saint-Maur, France
Catalog "3rd Global Print 2017", Alijo, Portugal
Catalog "Salon d'Automne 2017", France
2016
Exhibition catalog "Dessin de Graveurs", Fondation Taylor / "La Taille et le Crayon", France
2015
Exhibition catalog "TRACES"
Preface to the Iranian Artist's Book Shirin Salehi "Dancing with the jailer"
Text "Silences pour un sobre adieu" written for his presentation at Fig Bilbao 2015
2013 / 2014
Resident artists catalog, Casa de Velazquez, Catalog "XXI ESTAMPA", Espagne
COLLECTIONS
Servicio de Dibujos y Grabados, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Espagne
Collection Casa de Velázquez, Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Madrid, Espagne
Fundación Venancio Blanco, Salamanca, Espagne
Fundación CIEC, Betanzos, Espagne
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Série Territoires Hybrides, Palma de Mallorca, Espagne
Private in Chili, Brasil, United States, Luxembourg, Spain and France
Le Jour d’Avant, FRANCE MUSIQUE
Un Chileno en la Casa de Velázquez, Antena 3, Espagne
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