Christian d'Orgeix

Christian d'Orgeix (born December 18, 1927 in Foix in the Ariège department , † May 5, 2019 in Nimes ) was a French painter .

He came from an old noble family in the south of France . At first he was influenced by the late Cubist Albert Gleizes . At the end of the 1940s, however, he moved to Paris , where he became the assistant to the surrealist of German origin Hans Bellmer .

It was exhibited for the first time in 1955, in the Springer Gallery in Berlin . There he made friends with the painter Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern . Further artistic ties to German painting emerged through his discovery of Richard Oelze and through his friendship with Wols and Konrad Klapheck , who saw him as his first important artistic stimulus. He was also friendly to Sam Francis , Robert Matta and his temporary roommate Simon Hantaï .

D'Orgeix 'painting is generally assigned to Surrealism , but on closer inspection it turns out to be more connected to reality. The mostly humorous titles of the works always make realistic references to a down-to-earth topic: the dreamlike as such does not play a role in d'Orgeix.

D'Orgeix has also come to the fore through his sculptural work, with his “objets trouvés” (found objects): Thrown away or unusually shaped stones become schematic and yet realistic replicas of reality with the help of the soldering iron or a few brushstrokes (this is how the broken one becomes Fork to "dancer").

In 1961 he was awarded the prize at the 2nd Paris Biennale.

Christian d'Orgeix was a participant in documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964) in Kassel .

bibliography

Ragnar von Holten et José Pierre , d'Orgeix , Paris, éditions Le Musée de Poche, 1975. (French)
Galerie Michael Hasenclever (Munich), Fabrice Flahutez, Christian d'Orgeix, a retrospective , 2003.
Fabrice Flahutez, “Entretiens Christian d'Orgeix”, Art Présence , n ° 49, January 2004, p. 20-27. (French)
Fabrice Flahutez, rétrospective Christian d'Orgeix , Musée de Cordes sur Ciel, Galerie Arnoux-Paris, 2006. (French)

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SURNAME	Orgeix, Christian d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Foix
DATE OF DEATH	5th May 2019
Place of death	Nimes