Philippe Decrauzat

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Born in 1974 
Lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
 
2011
Anistrophy, Plateau, Paris
 
2010
Screen-o-scope, Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Prix Gustave Buchet 2010: Philippe Decrauzat et Jean-Luc Manz, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne
Parra & Romeo, Madrid
 
2009
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY 

2008
Secession, Vienna, Austria
Praz-Delavalade, Berlin, Germany 
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland 
Kunstverein, Bonn, Switzerland

2007
Screening, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA 
Undercover, Kunstraum Walchetrum, Zürich, Switzerland
And on to the discotheque comrade?, with James Fry and Scott King, Fri-art, Fribourg, Germany 

2006 
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Vista Vision, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Plate 28, Swiss institute, New York, NY, USA 

2005 
Komaniko, Mamco, Genève, Switzerland
General Dynamics, with Vincent Szarek and Loïc Raguenes, Synagogue de Delme Centre d’art contemporain, Delme, France 
Nowherenow, Kunstaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland 

2003 
That’s the image I want, Glassbox, Paris, France

2002 
Go for a ride, Le Hall, Enba, Lyon, France
Prix Manor, Elac, Lausanne, Switzerland (cat.) 

2001 
Galerie Patrick Roy, Lausanne, Switzerland

2000 
Le Rez, Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

1998 
Permanent show, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Tutti Edition, Verduno, Italy

1997     
Rien que pour vous, Lausanne, Switzerland


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Notorious, Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Reinvented: Study and Play, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
L’exposition continue, curated by Mathieu Copeland, 1m3 & Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstraction Extension, curated by Christian Besson, Julien Fronsacq, and Samuel Gross, Chateau d'Arenthon, Alex, France
Fade In / Fade Out, Bloomberg Space, London, England
Le Spectarium (les fantômes dans la machine), Cité le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse, Cité internationale universitaire, Paris, France
THE ETERNALFLAME, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Toute la collection du Frac (ou presque), MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur Seine, France
Abstraction étendue - Une scène romandes et ses connexions, Espace de l'Art Concret/ Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
No picture available, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France
Rolf Ricke Collection, Villa Merkel, Germany

2007
Rooms, Conversations, Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
A moitié carré, à moitié fou, Villa Arson, Nice, France
White Light Write It, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, France
Secondary Structures, KIT/Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
At Home In The Universe, curated by John Armleder, Art Center Mongin, Korea, South Korea
Introvert, Extrovert, Makes no difference, Galerie Catherine Issert, St. Paul de Venve, France
The Freak Show, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
The Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
At Home in the Universe, Mongin Art Center, Séoul, South Korea
Painting as Fact and Fact as Painting, curated by Bob Nikas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstart / acceleration, Usine Suchard/Can, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Peintures Aller/Retour, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Acceleration, curated by Gautrhier Huber & Arthur de Pury, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
AMoitié Carré AMoitié Fou, curated by Lili Reynaud Dewar, Vincent Pécoil, Elisabeth Wetterwald, Villa Arson, Nice, France

2006 
Cinq Milliards d’Années, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
black/white & chewing gum, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria
My mirrors are painting black, curated by Banks Violette, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY, USA 
Bring the War Home, curated by Drew Heitzler, Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY and QED, Los Angeles, CA, USA 
Hradacany, La Générale, Paris, France
Surfaces Polyphoniques, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
Branding, centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
Objets d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
Supernova, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

2005 
HERENOWHERE, Kunstaus Baseland, Basel, Switzerland
L’humanité mise à nu et l’art en frac, même, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Köln, Germany
Les abris antiatomiques de l’ARSENIC, Geneva, Switzerland
Shimmy II, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Especial, Galerie Shmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Decrauzat, Dafflon, Kropf, sur une proposition d’Olivier Mosset, Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne, France
Odiseado tra tempo, curated by Charlotte Mailler, Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland

2004    
Sensations suisse, Place Vendôme, Paris, France
La piste noire, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France
None of The Above, curated by John Armleder, Swiss institute New York, New York, USA 
The Age Of Optimism, No Picture Available, with Francis Baudevin and Stéphane Dafflon, Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
La Lettre volée, Musée des Beaux Arts de Dôle, Dôle, France
Circa Circé, Forde, Genève, Switzerland
Programm VIII, Galerie Rolph Ricke, Köln, Germany
Unter 30”, Museum Liner,Appenzell, Switzerland (cat.) 
En mouvement, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
Jour d’hypnose, Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
Hot Lunch, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
5 Billion Years, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA 
Circuit, Galerie Arte Ricambi, Verona, Italy

2003    
Galerie Lovenbruck, Paris, France
La partie continue, Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris, France (cat.) 
Dessins, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
Meanwhile in the real world, Chapelle de La Sorbonne, Paris, France
Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory Show, Villa Arson, Nice, France (cat.) 
Des voisinages, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Drawing by numbers, Glassbox, Paris, France
MURSOLAICI, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris, France

2002 
GDM, Paris, France
Rétrospective des prix Manor, Elac, Lausanne, Switzerland
Les heures claires, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France (cat.) 
Help, Elac, Lausanne, Switzerland
Inside the sixties, MCBA, Lausanne, France (cat.) 
FRI-ART 81, Fri-art, Fribourg, Germany
BCV art, Musée Jenish, Vevey, France (cat.) 

2001 
Perspectives romandes 3, Musée Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland (cat.) 
Record collection, Forde, Genève, Switzerland
Quotidien aidé (les locataires), ESBA, Tours, France

2000
The doors, Luzerne, Switzerland
Barcelone Art Contemporain(BAC), CC La Santa, Barcelone, Spain (cat.) 
CIRCUIT, Galerie éof, Paris, France

1999 
Celeste & Eliot Kunstsalon, Zürich, Switzerland
Carte Blanche, Paris, France
Scène Ouverte, Nouvelle galerie, Grenoble, France

1998    
Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Commerce, Galerie Gaxotte, Porrentruy, France
In Vitro, alternative spaces, Zürich, Switzerland
(…), Casablanca, Marocco
MAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Villa Gracieuse 5, Lausanne, Switzerland


SCREENINGS
Vox Popull Gallery, Philadelphia, USA 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 
2007 
Fronsacq, Julien, "Philippe Decrauzat - CAC Genève," Frog, Spring/Summer, p 100-103 
Baumann, Daniel, "Undercover," Spike, Spring 
"Un chef d’orchestre de la perception," Beaux-Arts Magazine, no. 272, February 
Gross, Samuel, "L’exposition du spectateur – le jeu spatial de Philippe Decrauzat," Kunstbulletin, January/February 
Houston, Joe, "Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960’s," Columbus Museum, USA (cat.) 

2006 
Carmine, Giovanni, "OP& LOW," 20/27, no. 1 
Pécoil, Vincent, "Op-ed World: Philippe Decrauzat," Contemporary no. 82 
Velasco, David, "Review about the show in the Swiss Institute," Artforum, October 
Grandjean, Emmanuel, "Vertige au Centre d’art avec Philippe Decrauzat," Tribune de Genève, November 4
Derieux, Florence, Flash Art, March-April 
Davies, Lillian, "Paris, Critics’ Picks: Philippe Decrauzat," Artforum.com, February 
Lavrador, Judicael, "Art élastique," Les Inrockuptibles, January 
Demousseaux, Astrid, Paris-art.com, January 
"Visual Effect," Vogue, January, p78 

2005 
Francblin, Catherine, "Art Cinétique, la sortie du purgatoire," Art press, no. 314, July/August 
Link, Christina, "Art Premiere," Art Investor 
Wahler, M.-0., "Dossier Paraminimal – Entretien avec Marc-Olivier Wahler," 02 – revue d’art contemporain, Summer 

2003 
"Progress Report – Entretien avec Fabrice Stroun," édition Les Presses du Réel (cat.) 

COLLECTIONS 
Kunsthaus Zürich 
FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon 
Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC) 
FRAC Franche-Comté 
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne 
Collection Julius Baer 
Collection de la Banque Cantonale Vaudoise 
Collection d’art Swiss Life Groupe 
Collection des Assurances Bâloise 
Collection LVMH 
Collection de la Banque Nationale Suisse 
FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais

  • Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting

    by Bob Nickas (Author)

    Features Philippe Decrauzat

    In recent years, abstract painting has developed a rich complexity that, now more than ever, rewards intensive viewing; this authoritative book guides the reader through the key issues in the field. Painting Abstraction profiles 80 of today?s most vital contemporary abstract painters, such as Mark Grotjahn and Amy Sillman, featuring large full-color reproductions of their work and incisive texts by author and curator Bob Nickas. The product of years of research and countless studio visits, Painting Abstraction is a major statement on the last five years of this exciting new wave of creativity in painting.

    Hardcover: 352 pages
    Publisher: Phaidon Press (November 18, 2009)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0714849332
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  • Philippe Decrauzat

    by Bob Nickas (Author), Julien Fronsacq (Author), Katia Garcia-Anton (Author), Philippe Decrauzat (Author), Lionel Bovier (Editor), Bice Curiger (Introduction)

    Though his works evoke 60s Op art, Swiss-born artist Philippe Decrauzat's first reference is more likely to be the film Tron than Bridget Riley. Decrauzat works in a variety of media--wall painting, shaped canvases, sculpture, installations and works on paper, all of which evidence flat chromatics and complex geometric compositions. Stating, "I am not trying to build up a new theory about ideological issues regarding the historical content of abstraction. I am strongly involved in investigating the status of the image, in other words, indebted to practices trying to outline the critical tools developed by Conceptual and Op art," Decrauzat clues us in to how his seemingly simple mix of appropriated imagery and techniques works. This is Decrauzat's first monograph and includes an essay by critic and curator Bob Nickas.

    • Hardcover: 64 pages
      Publisher: JRP|Ringier (March 1, 2008)
      Language: English
      ISBN-10: 3905770873
      ISBN-13: 978-3905770872

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  • Philippe Decrauzat - Shut And Open At The Same Time

    by Lionel Bovier (Author)

    Softcover: 64 pages, 22 illustrations
    Publisher: Secession (2008)
    Lanuage: German/English/French
    ISBN: 978-3-902592-07-1

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