artistes

ZOER

Né en Italie en 1985, vit et travaille en France.

Diplômé du Strate College en design industriel, Zoer dirige ses recherches artistiques et plastiques sur les objets, afin de comprendre ce que leur vie et leur après-vie révèlent des comportements humains. L’industrie se définit aujourd’hui par de nombreux paradoxes, utilisant parfois l'obsolescence programmée alors que la pratique du recyclage gagne du terrain. Le matérialisme et la surconsommation persistent mais changent de visage. L’artiste se positionne ainsi comme un archéologue par anticipation, observant le devenir des objets alors que la société se tourne vers la dématérialisation.

Zoer s’exprime par la peinture figurative, à l’acrylique ou à l’huile, mais également par la sculpture et l’installation. Depuis quelques années, ses recherches plastiques se sont tournées vers l’objet “voiture”. Il manipule ainsi des carcasses avec lesquelles il joue et sur lesquelles il peint. A force de regarder l’objet se dégrader, Zoer traduit dans son art un goût pour le design autant que pour le romantisme.

voir l'exposition Californisme
voir l'exposition Memory

Born in Italy in 1985, lives and works in France.

Graduate of Strate College in Industrial Design, Zoer focuses his artistic pursuits on objects, to understand what their life and afterlife reveal about human behaviors. Today, industrial production is defined by many paradoxes, including both planned obsolescence as well as an increase in recycling. Materialism and overconsumption persist, but in a different form. The artist positions himself as an archeologist of anticipation, observing the future of objects as society becomes more dematerialized.

Zoer expresses himself through figurative paintings, in acrylic or oil, as well as sculptures and installations. In recent years, he has explored using cars as objects. He manipulates their carcasses, playing with them and painting on them. By looking at deteriorating objects, Zoer translates into his art a taste for design as much as for romanticism.

see Californisme exhibition
see Memory exhibition

CV

SOLO SHOWS

2018

● La forme, SC Gallery, Bilbao, Spain

2017

● Prisma, Colab Gallery, Weil am Rhein, Germany
● DIE_CAST, Toba Gallery, Mexico DF, Mexico

2015

● BLAS, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
● L’Etat Limite, Hidari Zingaro Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014

● Perpetuum Mobile, Open Space, Paris, France

2013

● Reduction, Nexus Galerie, Reims, France

GROUP SHOWS

2019

● Memory, Bim Bam Gallery, Paris, FR
● Californisme, Bim Bam Gallery, Paris, FR
● Passages, L'Armancette, Saint-Nicolas de Veroce

2018

● Creença, curated by Axel Void, Konvent, Spain

2017

● Mondes Flottants, 14e Biennale de Lyon, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France

2016

● Superflat x Juxtapoz, Curated by Juxtapoz & Takashi Murakami,
Featuring, ToiletPaper Magazine by Maurizio Cattelan & PierpaoloFerrari,
Pivot Art Center, Seattle, USA
● Takashi MURAKAMI Superflat Collection,
Yokohama Museum of modern Art, Yokohama, Japan
● Facebook Artists in Residence Program, Paris, France

2013

● From Line to Abstraction, Galerie Yves Laroche, Montréal, Canada

2012

● Les entrailles du Palais, Palais de Tokyo Paris, France

PUBLIC SPACES PROJECTS

2019

● Sorala, France
● Aqua Alta, Arding, Erding, Germany

2018

● Collaboration with Sebas Velasco, Bol, Croatia
● Un temps suspendu, Rabat, Marocco
● Nouvelle Vague, Le voyage à Nantes, Nantes, France

2017

● TOMO, Granollers, Spain
● Veicolo Leggero, FestiWall, Ragusa, Sicily
● Everything, SODO tracks, Seattle, USA
● Maniphesto, 2KM3, Saint-Gervais, France
● ZOER x Instagram, Passerelle Solferino, Paris, France
● Umbrellas, HKwalls, Hong Kong, China

2016

● SC Gallery Bilbao : mural art project Bilbao, Spain
● Rouen Impressionnée : Mural Art project, Rouen, France

2015

● Teenage Kicks - Biennale, Rennes, France
● KillArtFactory Festival, Saint Gervais, France

2014

● Musée d’art moderne, Moscou, Russia
● Mister Freeze, Toulouse, France

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