Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to exhibit the works of Pascal Pinaud in the new gallery space. The artist will be able to easily show the extent of his pictorial research in the three exhibition rooms. The automobile sheets, the canvases, the reworked fabrics and other unpublished series will be integrated by the artist into a set composed of architectural elements, such as rosettes, moldings, cornices...
The idea is not to recreate an artificial or baroque decor but to think of these elements as other materials that are new motifs entering into the constitution of his work.
For more than ten years, Pascal Pinaud has been reinventing abstract painting in search of new ways, without frames or brushes, with great formal and technical originality. He knows with talent and humor how to reinterpret the great myths of abstract painting from Malevich to the present day.
This exhibition follows the important monographic exhibition of Pascal Pinaud at the MAMCO in Geneva in 2001 and the publication of the catalog whose text, written by Eric de Chassey, will be presented at the gallery.
Pascal Pinaud, born in 1964, is a graduate of the Villa Arson in Nice.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2001
FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Marseille
French Institute of Turin, Italy
"Transpainting" 1993-2001, M.A.M.CO., Geneva
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003
The Box, Turin (March)
Gallery Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2004
Museum of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2002
"Vivement 2002", 6th episode, MAMCO, Geneva
"Voilà la France", Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy.
"The Abstract Way", Florence and Daniel Guerlain Foundation, Les Mesnuls
Miro Foundation, Barcelona
2003
The ideal City", Valencia Biennial
2004
"Amicalement Vôtre", Lille 2004, Musée de Tourcoing
"Settlements", Museum of Saint-Etienne. Artists : Wim Delvoye, Pascal Pinaud, Barthélémy Toguo...
Curator of the exhibition "Colocataires" at the Centre d'art contemporain de Castres. Artists exposed : John M. Armleder, Pascal Broccolichi, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Richard Fauguet, Jacques Julien, Sandra D. Lecoq, Stéphane Magnin, Mathieu Mercier, Pascal Pinaud, Daniel Schlier.