Michel Blazy
Michel Blazy's work revolves around the living. The artist documents the putrefaction, proliferation, draining and liquefaction of humble materials through ephemeral sculptures and installations. A certain laissez-faire approach is necessary in the search for an aesthetic language in the metamorphosis of organic matter. The shapes, colors and even smells that emerge from his experimental approach are unpredictable. The use of ordinary materials in a slow, transitory process reflects a critical view of the fast paste of consumer society and the static, sterile architecture that surrounds us. Michel Blazy's works integrate into their environment in an evolving manner, questioning the cohabitation of the artificial and the natural.
Biography
A graduate of Villa Arson in the 1990s, Michel Blazy lives and works in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France. He has had several solo exhibitions, including Transmutation du savoir et conservation du champignon de la connaissance at Galerie Art & Essai in Rennes in 2023, Autre chose qu'une maison at the Cité des Sciences in Paris in 2020, and We Were the Robots at the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston in 2019. His work can be found in numerous public collections in France, Monaco and Australia. A large number of monographs have been dedicated to him and published worldwide.
Recent exhibitions
| 2024 | Déliquescence, group exhibition, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, CA La cantine, solo exhibition, CIPAV, Ile de Vassivière, FR The Future is Now, group exhibition, Le Parvis - Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos, FR Nobody Is A Stranger, group exhibition, No Name (Patricia Marshall Fine Art), Paris, FR Artistes et paysans – Battre la campagne, group exhibition, Les Abattoirs, Musée-Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, FR Effervescences, group exhibition, Château du Rivau, Lémeré, FR When Forms Come Alive, group exhibition, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK |
| 2023 | Michel Blazy - Transmutation du savoir et conservation du champignon de la connaissance, solo exhibition, Master MAE Rennes 2, Rennes, FR Le temps qu'il nous faut, group exhibition, MAIF Social Club, Paris, FR Renaissance Sauvage : la perspective symbiotique, group exhibition, Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris, FR Le Palais de mémoire, focus sur la scène française avec le prix Marcel Duchamp, group exhibition, Palais Dacia-Romania, Bucarest, RO Relations en tension 2 – Le retour du fiasco, group exhibition, Jakmousse, Montreuil, FR |
| 2022 | Noël en septembre, solo exhibition, Six pieds sur terre, exposition solo, Le Portique, Le Havre, FR Elixirs, group exhibition, ART Écologie en Val d’Adour, FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA, Abbaye de Saint-Sever-de-Rustan, Château de Montaner, Tour de Termes d’Armagnac, FR Lignes de fuite, group exhibition, Centre international d’art et du paysage, Île de Vassivière, FR Drone pour cage a cactées, duo with Samuel Blazy, Vallon du Villaret, FR Jardins slow, group exhibition, Termes-d'Armagnac, FR Les formes du transfert, group exhibition, Fondation Hermès, Tokyo, JAP |