Michel Audebert
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WEB PUBLICATIONS
→ March 2011: Feature on the web TV FINE ART TV.
→ August 2011: Gallery in the web magazine NUEXPO.
→ November 2011: Listed in the 1001 Photographers web directory.
→ April 2013: Interview and portfolio in the web magazine NUEXPO, updated in September 2014.
→ July 2014: Feature on the Italian web magazine BEAUTIFUL! Controcorrente.
→ November 2014: Work presented in England by the art directory web B GALLERY.
→ May 2015: Work represented in Italy by Emanuela ORLER, website and web TV AFFORDABLE ART POINT.
→ June 2015: Selected and featured by the international art web magazine BAJA ARTISTS.
→ October 2016: New presentation and update of my publication in the web magazine NUEXPO.
→ November 2016: Presentation on the international sales site ARTSPER, proposed by the Art' et Miss Gallery.
→ April 2019: First American publication, in the CONTEMPORARY ART CURATOR artist directory.
→ October 2019: Presentation in the United States by ART PRODUCTIONS NEW YORK Agency.
→ November 2019: Presentation on the American sales site ART UpCLOSE, in connection with the ARTIFACT Gallery in New York.
→ June 2020: Web art event around the world ARTISTI DEL FUTURO, from June to August 2020.
→ November 2020: Interview in the American web-mag ARTERY.
→ May 2021: Publication in the video VIRTUART 2021 Photographs, by ART PROGRESS 2000.
→ July 2023: Publication on the website of the Artistic Agency ACCES ART STUDIO.
→ September 2024: Publication of the Critical Text ARTIST ANALYSIS 2024 (Contemporary Art Station).
PUBLICATIONS IN MAGAZINES AND BOOKS
→ January 1999: Portfolio in PHOTOGRAPHE AMATEUR MAGAZINE.
→ February 2013: Portfolio in PHOTOGRAPHE.
→ July 2013: Portfolio in PHOTOGRAPHIE ARTISTIQUE.
→ October 2013: Portfolio in Les dossiers de PHOTOGRAPHIE ARTISTIQUE.
→ January 2015: Calendar "Woman and Nature" published by Editions CALVENDO.
→ December 2017: Publication in the book Selection 2017-2018 MONDIAL ART ACADÉMIA.
→ January 2018: Publication in the book ART COLLECTOR HISTOIRES D'ART.
→ May 2018: Publication in the book INTERNATIONALE KUNST HEUTE 2018.
→ November 2018: Publication in the book WECONTEMPORARY 2018 International Art.
→ February 2021: Publication in TRENDS IN ART: INSIGHTS FOR COLLECTORS (Contemporary Art Curator Magazine).
→ February 2022: Publication in the magazine ART INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY and catalog (LEONARD DE VINCI International Award).
→ November 2022: Publication in the Dutch artist directory JAARBOECK Kunstenaars 23.
→ August 2023: Publication in the book CAREER ART Award 2023 (Effetto Arte Foundation).
→ July 2024: Publication in the book THE BEST CONTEMPORARY MASTERS 2024 (Effetto Arte Foundation).
→ September 2024: Publication in the book PERSONA ART HONOURS 2024 and Critical Analysis (Contemporary Art Station).
→ October 2024: Publication in the book VINCENT van Gogh Tribute (Contemporary Art Station).
→ February 2025: Publication in the book ART INVESTMENT & COLLECTORS' GUIDE 2025 (Art Market Experts and Contemporary Art Collectors).
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→ July 1989: CARCOM - Lons-le-Saunier - 39 (group exhibition).
→ May 1992: Galerie de la Halle-St-Pierre - Paris 18.
→ January 1993: Galerie J. Debaigts - Paris 5.
→ February 1994: Galerie du Temple - Paris 4.
→ July 1994: Galerie Point JAL (Japan Airlines) - Paris 8.
→ May 1995: International Salon of the Academy of Lutèce - Paris 4.
→ December 1995: Galerie J. Debaigts - Paris 5.
→ May 1996: Montmartre Festival in Europe - Paris 18 (group exhibition).
→ July 1996: International Salon of the Academy of Lutèce - Paris 4.
→ November 1996: Espace IMA'REFLEX - Paris 9.
→ August 1997: International Contemporary Art Salon ARTECH-ASAHI - Blois - 45.
→ March 2000: Galerie J. Debaigts - Paris 5 (with Alexy-D, photographer).
→ November 2000: PHOTOBIS 2000 - Espace-Saint-Martin - Paris 10 (salon).
→ January 2001: Galerie F. Guillou - Paris 18 (with S. Berrod, painter).
→ May 2001: Galerie MISE.AU.POINT - Paris 9.
→ December 2001: Photographic Encounters of the 18th - Paris 18 (group exhibition).
→ November 2002: WOSTOK celebrates autumn - Paris 11 (group exhibition).
→ June 2003: ART CAFE - Montpellier - 34.
→ June 2005: ESTIV 'PHOTO - Pézenas - 34 (festival).
→ February 2009: GRAINS DE BEAUTE-PROMOTION - Restaurant Le Prestige - Paris 17 (group exhibition).
→ June 2009: GRAINS DE BEAUTE-PROMOTION - Photo Space - Paris 13 (group exhibition).
→ October 2009: GRAINS DE BEAUTE-PROMOTION - Photo Space - Paris 13.
→ September 2013: Galerie WIKIARTE - Bologna, Italy.
→ June 2015: Galerie BDMC - Paris 15 (with Sylvie Malys, sculptor).
→ November 2016: Galerie Art' et Miss - Paris 3.
→ November 2018: Galerie Art' et Miss - Paris 3 - "Photography and Time" (group exhibition).
→ October 2019: POINT ART FAIR - Salon L' ART DU NU - Paris 6.
→ November 2019: Galerie Art' et Miss - Paris 3 - "Photography, a true art" (group exhibition).
→ December 2019: SCOPE Miami Fair - Digital presentation on screen (United States).
→ September 2020: ART EINDHOVEN Salon - Digital presentation on screen (Netherlands).
→ July 2021: EUROPARTFAIR Salon - Amsterdam (Netherlands).
→ November 2021: ART PROGRESS 2000 - Artistic Variations - Avignon (group exhibition).
→ January 2022: Galerie Roz in Winter - The Human Body in All Its States - Barbizon.
→ July 2022: ART PROGRESS 2000 - Photographic Encounters of Arles Off - Arles (group exhibition).
→ October 2022: EUROPARTFAIR Salon - Amsterdam (Netherlands).
→ January 2024: PITTURIAMO First Artist of Europe 2023 Award - Milan, Italy - (digital group exhibition).
→ April 2024: Circle Arts - ARTEXPO New York - United States - (digital group exhibition).
→ June 2024: ARTBOX.PROJECTS - Basel Artexpo - Basel, Switzerland - (digital group exhibition).
→ September 2024: Circle Arts - EUROPARTFAIR - Amsterdam, Netherlands - (digital group exhibition).
→ October 2024: ARTBOXY - ARTEXPO Paris 2024 - Paris - (digital group exhibition).
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→ October 1995: Silver Medal with Mention at the 1995 International Competition of the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF LUTÈCE.
→ January 2020: Honorable Mention at the 2019 International Competition, from CIRCLE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS.
→ December 2020: Artistic Excellence Award at the 2020 International Competition, from Magazine Contest Art IDEAL.
→ February 2022: LEONARD DE VINCI International Award, recognizing a selection of emerging artists, from Salvatore RUSSO and Francesco Saverio RUSSO.
→ September 2023: CAREER ART Award 2023, from Salvatore RUSSO and Francesco Saverio RUSSO, and EFFETTO ARTE Foundation.
→ December 2023: Nomination by PITTURIAMO for the First Artist of Europe 2023 Award.
→ July 2024: THE BEST CONTEMPORARY MASTERS 2024 Distinction, EFFETTO ARTE Foundation.
→ September 2024: PERSONA ART HONOURS 2024 Distinction, Contemporary Art Station.
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BIOGRAPHY
In 1975, Michel Audebert artist's adventure begins. Photographer and plastician, he takes us along in a search towards the beauty or the message is as strong as the image.
"Even more than a work on the representation, my research is the expression of the feeling which emanates from the photographed subject ... In my images, the repetition does not have a "hypnotic" goal... The least variation on the subject must modify our perception of it... I have a high idea of Photography as a mode of expression. In a parallel with reality and the time which passes, I regard this one as a major art... It can create the illusion of reality like the impression of stopped time. For me, photography is a formidable instrument of dream and nostalgia. »
Here, in some lines, Michel Audebert, photographer and plastician, define and pose the scenery of his creative passion as a means of restoring a reality but more to express to see transcending the beauty of the world which surrounds it.
In 1975 its adventure of artist begins; first steps in one of the birthplace of the French photographic expression while taking part in the meetings of the famous Photo-Club of the Val de Bièvres not far from recognized French Museum of Photography, then stage after stage, its career grow rich by meeting, collective exposures or in solo.
How to determine or qualify its photographic work? Are there inspirations or Masters in whom it poses his own print?
It is true that with Michel Audebert one could find some traces identity, here or there of Lucien Clergue, of David Hamilton to quote only these two great figures of photography. Its photographic art is more complex than a simple correspondence, the parallels thus stop there.
We are not in naked photography, nature or environmental. Its work causes a feeling, a feeling to see a reflexion; the graphic celebration of a form, a curve, a detail, a matter, will have for certain besides an effect contemplative and called upon the bottom of us with well anchored existential codes.
Most astonishing in its work, it is that one cannot dissociate the desire of the photographer of magnifier his model that it results human or from nature and to give him a capacity to be expressed in a peaceful harmony like soliciting us with a form of safeguarding, of respect.
For the galerist J. Debaigts "... Actually, although it proposes images to us, it transmits also messages to us, those of its imaginary always in awakening. This man-photographer is an alchemist. In front of its objective nature yields with its aesthetic impulses, more than it imposes itself of it.... »
Thus do not seek to categorize it in a field or another, observe its creations like works or its imaginary takes the step on reality. Moving or statics, its photography is an art at the same time easy of access and complex to decode, nothing is free and all is reflected and it is also what makes a work of art, its capacity to appear spontaneously and according to these proper codes.
Michel Audebert is, an architect, a composer of the beauty which surrounds us, it takes form in a woman, a tree, a sky or a wave and finally it arises a feeling of a whole, single. With him, reality is abstract; finally of account it is another dimension which it proposes to us.
In 1975, the photographer had been born.
It was gradually moulted as a plastician, a change which had not escaped besides Christian Langlois, member of the Academy of the Art schools who in 1997 caused the idea with the artist to make the entrance examination with CASA VELASQUEZ in Spain, international establishment of artistic and scientific creation.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my work on the image of Nature, well beyond the visual aspect, it is in fact our intimate relationship with it that I try to express, and in particular at the sensory and emotional level... My research on the transmission and the expression of emotions, is a visual writing a little subliminal, which creates the perception amplified by the very great "presence" of the subject exposed to the glance... One can find a certain "spirituality" in the general direction with my artistic research, in the direction where I try to capture precisely that which "does not see"... As for example the Light, of which I do not always remember to have been the witness, as well as certain forms and matters... That corresponds with my perceptions and metaphysical convictions! ... But one can also more simply consider that my expressed emotions come from my own sensitivity. In fact, my image work is autobiographical in the sense that it always reflects my emotional state of the moment ... But I always hope that these emotions can resonate with a part of the viewers of my photographic work!
The proximity and focus of the subject must also allow the expression of the greatest realism in its visual representation! The fragments of landscapes by their strong presence become "natural entities" which possess their own existence ... Moreover in the capture of the Light, I try to materialize it ... It must become visible on the "objects" which become the reflectors and transmitters, and which are then transformed into "bodies of light"! This one also becomes for me an Element in itself which is added to the Four Elements, and which has its own reality distinct from the object which serves as its support ... As for the Woman, she "materializes" the human presence being an integral part of the Creation, as a natural entity in the noblest sense ... The eroticism also approached visually but also emotionally, proceeds from the same idea of revealing intimacy and its part of secret ... always by this desire to show what we are not supposed to see! This is also valid for this fundamental emotion...
In fact, my personal research on the perception of Nature goes beyond abstraction, because the form of reality that I find is invisible by an intellectual work, but only visible by the research of the feeling... My perception of Nature is directly linked to my mental and emotional conditioning of the moment... Moreover when I leave in search of images, I am always in a certain availability of spirit, which gives me the impression to enter another reality than the one which presents itself to my eyes... I feel connected to another Space-Time while being present and conscious, of and in the natural environment of which I feel nevertheless to be an integral part! I have certain metaphysical convictions which are now increasingly confirmed by current Physics, however it is not my intention to impose them...
My solitude in Nature and my relationship with Time and Death, have probably over the course of my life allowed me to have these metaphysical perceptions, which some people call extrasensory! It is like that, that I often have the impression to be in another state of consciousness in contact with Nature, and it is also what I try to express in my images... Moreover, my "retinal" memory does not always remember what it perceived in the moment! To clarify but simplifying, I would say that forests and rocks allow me a certain "return to myself", whereas open natural spaces are more difficult to capture. while the open natural spaces and the skies take me to a certain "opening to the Universe"! In the skies, my immersion in these "other landscapes" seems to give me access to different spaces and universes, that their visualization allows me to see and feel momentarily as a reality... Moreover for me, eroticism and spirituality are not incompatible and even proceed from two different and complementary approaches of what makes our individual, and beyond that our own existence... The body and the spirit united for the best, in our deep relationship with Nature!
In my research on Funeral Art, I want to express that it celebrates in a certain way, the existence of Another World for Another Life... It is both pain and hope, a place of recollection and meditation, for our earthly attachment and our spiritual elevation! If by personal experience I am convinced of another Life after our earthly Death, I totally understand that one may not agree with this vision of "things"... You will also be able to note, that in its material elements, this research is in the continuity of my research on the Perception of Nature... with the mineral, the vegetable. Moreover, philosophically also, this research on Funeral is indeed the continuity of that on Nature and Light!...
Michel Audebert
