Since the mid-1980s, French artist Xavier Veilhan has created an acclaimed body of works defined by his interest in both the vocabulary of modernity (speed, motion, urban life, etc.) and classical statuary, to which he has given his own contemporary reinterpretation.
He uses a large array of materials and techniques to produce three-dimensional portraits and landscapes, bestiary and architectures that always oscillate between the familiar and the extraordinary.
For Xavier Veilhan, art is “a vision tool through which we must look in order to understand our past, present, and future”. His exhibitions and in-situ interventions in cities, gardens and houses question our perception by creating an evolving ambulatory space in which the audience becomes an active participant.
By associating sculpture, scenery, music and living figures, he creates works to create exhibitions. Their aesthetics reveal a continuum of form, contour, fixity and dynamics, that invite the spectator to a new reading of the space and so creating a whole repertory of signs, the theatre of a society.
Frequently investing in the public space, Xavier Veilhan has installed sculptures in various cities in France as abroad: New York , Shanghai, Sweden, Osan. His latest performance, SYSTEMA OCCAM, for a musical composition by Eliane Radigue, was presented in 2013 in Marseille and New York, and in 2014 in the Parisian museum Eugène Delacroix.
Images courtesy of Xavier Veilhan
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