Flying Whales
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    Flying Whales

    Oil on canvas
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    About Pierre Riollet :

    Pierre Riollet was born on April 25th, 1963 and graduated from the Auguste Renoir School of Art, Paris in 1983. After 20 years spent in Advertising, first as a Graphic Artist and finally as an Artistic Director, he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to painting in 2003.



    The artwork of the illustrator, Norman Rockwell, led him take an interest in the American Realist Movement. The artists, Edward Hopper and in particular, Robert Cottingham, influenced him at this time. Following a trip to the United States in 1987, he began a body of large scale works, featuring American facades and their projected shadows. Two years later, in 1989, he presented these paintings in his first one man exhibition. Parallel to his facade paintings, he worked on other subjects, still lives and landscapes, with various techniques (watercolor, ink-wash and drawings) and published a book illustrating a favourite fetish of his: "flipflops"! This exhibition presents a retrospective of recent and past works dealing with "townscapes", in oil and in acrylic. This subject matter has been dear to him for almost two decades now. Having worked at length on "facades", he now embraces "contre jour" always seduced by the light and the deep contrasts. This is the vital essence of his artistic research today.

    Beyond the symbolism of the tunnel, it is both the graphic and the esthetic effect which interest me in this theme. Whatever the subject is, the framework magnifies the light and sends it back to us, the viewer, blinding in its intensity. I like the contrast of the dark frame, steering the eye towards a brilliant and abstract opening, letting the imagination rush in and on out of the picture space. The idea of passage and transition are inevitably expressed here.






    Solo & Group Exhibitions

    2017
    AAF Brussels - Affordable Art Fair - Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE)
    Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE) - Solo Exhibition
    ART 3F Art Fair Lyon, Metz, Mulhouse, Paris, Toulouse, Rennes, Nantes, Bruxelles, Luxembourg
    JGO Bastille - Paris - Chatou
    Galerie Platini - Lyon - Annecy
    Galerie Perrier - Avignon
    Art design Gallery - Guetary
    Gordon Bennet Gallery - Beaulieu sur Mer

    2016
    AAF Brussels - Affordable Art Fair - Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE)
    Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE) - Solo Exhibition
    ART 3F Art Fair Lyon, Metz, Mulhouse, Paris Rennes, Nantes
    JGO Bastille - Paris - Chatou
    Galerie Sillage - Paimpol
    Galerie du Chateau - Estaimbourg ( BE) Solo Exhibition
    Galerie Jal - Les portes en ré
    Galerie de Medicis - Place des vosges - Paris

    2015
    44° Salon des Arts de Vaucresson
    Grand Marché de l'Art de Chatou
    Expo 4Art, Paris
    Chateau Conti, L'Isle Adam
    Art Contemporain et Céramique, Paris
    44° Salon des Arts de Vaucresson
    Grand Marché de l'Art de Chatou
    Aquarella
    Art3f Paris
    Aiguillage galerie
    Exposition, Les Extraits
    Espace Marc Steckar
    Galerie Monsieur

    2013
    Galerie de Medicis
    jpbART Gallery
    Galerie Nicolas LAHAYE
    ART 89
    La Galerie du Chateau - Estaimbourg – (BE)

    2012
    ART GENT - Flander Expo Gent - Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE)
    Modus Gallery (Paris) - Solo Exhibition
    AAF Brussels - Affordable Art Fair - Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE)

    2011
    Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE) - Solo Exhibition
    Linéart 2011 - Gent Annual Art Fair - Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE)
    AAF Brussels - Affordable Art Fair - Art City Gallery - Paris
    Barclay’s Club gallery – Metropole center - Monaco
    Modus Gallery (Paris) - Solo Exhibition

    2010
    Linéart 2010 - Gent Annual Art Fair - Frans Vanhove Art Gallery - Leuven - (BE)
    Chic Art Fair - Cité de la Mode et du Design – Art City Gallery - Paris
    AAF London - Affordable Art Fair - Aranapoveda Galeria- Madrid (SP)
    AAF Paris - Affordable Art Fair - Art City Gallery, Paris
    Modus Gallery (Paris) - Solo Exhibition
    Lux Metropolis - Collective Exhibition - Art City Gallery - Paris
    Passages - Solo Exhibition - Art City Gallery - Paris
    AAF Brussels - Affordable Art Fair - Art City Gallery, Paris

    2009
    AAF Brussels - Affordable Art Fair - Aiguillage Gallery - Paris
    AAF Paris - Affordable Art Fair - Aiguillage Gallery - Paris
    AAF London - Affordable Art Fair - Aranapoveda Galeria- Madrid
    Ciudad a contraluz - Solo Exhibition - Aranapoveda Galeria - Madrid
    Arte Santander – Annual Art fair - Aranapoveda Galeria - Madrid
    Collectif artistes- Group Exhibition - Art City Gallery

    2008
    AAF Brussels - Affordable Art Fair - Aiguillage Gallery
    AAF Paris - Affordable Art Fair - Aiguillage Gallery
    Retrospective P. - Solo exhibition - BP headquarter Paris

    2007
    Art pluriel - Annual Art Exhibition
    Aquarella - Watercolor Art Fair

    2006
    Art pluriel - Annual Art Exhibition
    Aquarella - Watercolor Art Fair

    2005
    Art pluriel - Annual Art Exhibition
    Chatou Painters Association – 48th Annual Art Exhibition
    Aquarella - Watercolor Art Fair
    Art78 - Annual Art Exhibition
    Art’uel – 10 th Annual Art Fair

    2004
    Art pluriel - Annual Art Exhibition
    Chatou Painters Association - 47th Annual Art Exhibition
    Aquarella - Watercolor Art Fair
    Art78 - Annual Art Exhibition
    Brittany landscape - Solo Watercolor Exhibition
     
    2003
    Contemporary Annual Art Fair J.G.O. Chatou - Ile des impressionnistes
    Chatou Painters Association - 46th Annual Art Exhibition
    Montesson 25th Annual Art Exhibition
    Art’uel - 8th Annual Art Fair
    Aquarella - Annual Watercolor Art Fair
    Contemporary Art Fair J.G.O. Paris

    2002
    Chatou Painters Association - 45th Annual Art Exhibition
    Montesson 24th Annual Art Exhibition
    Carrière-sur-Seine - Annual Art Exhibition
    Art’uel  7th. Annual Art Fair
    Aquarella - Annual Watercolor Art Fair
    Rencontre des Arts - Annual Art Exhibition
    J.G.O. Contemporary Art Fair - Chatou - Ile des impressionnistes
    Summer Exhibition - Royal Academy of Art London

    2001
    Salon des salons – Versailles’s Annual Art Exhibition
    Aquarella - Annual Watercolor Art Fair
    Solo exhibition - Aiguillage Gallery
    Art’uel  6th. Annual Art Fair
    Seine en scène - Solo watercolor exhibition - La gare d’eau

    2000
    Chaville – 23rd Annual Art Exhibition
    Aquarella - Annual Watercolor Art Fair
    Art’uel  5th. Annual Art Fair

    1999
    Seine en scène - Solo watercolor exhibition - La Capitainerie
    Aquarella - Annual Watercolor Art Fair
    Art’uel  4th. Annual Art Fair

    1998
    Aquarella - Annual Watercolor Art Fair
    Art’uel  3rd Annual Art Fair

    1989
    Facade lights & shadows