Eric Decastro

Eric Decastro (* 1960 in Le Creusot , Burgundy , France ) is a French painter .

Career

Eric Decastro was born in 1960 in Burgundy, France. He trained as a serigraphist, screen printer, and studied painting with Markus Lüpertz at the Kolbermoor Art Academy. He works primarily in the field of informal painting and sculpture. In painting, however, the artist pays particular attention to the harmony of the image and the relief-like contours, which enable a diverse play of light and shadow depending on the incidence of light. Decastro's works draw the viewer into the picture - into a color-poetic cosmos that is deliberately designed to allow the illusion that one could also be dealing with a landscape or a space photograph. Decastro deals thematically with the aspect of transience. His works include a. in the Deutsche Bank / SAL-Oppenheim Collection, Reinhold Würth Collection Künzelsau Baden-Württemberg, Eduardo Hochschild Collection Lima Peru, Inca-Cola Collection Peru, as well as the RE Collection Wiesbaden, Reinhold Würth Museum Schwäbisch-Hall (since 2017), and were most recently at the Kunstverein Heppenheim, the Museum Villa Rot, the Torrance Art-Museum Los Angeles, the Kunstverein Bronxartspace New-York USA, Museum Villa Seiz. Since 2001 he has been working as a freelance and full-time artist. However, he works primarily in the field of informal painting and sculpture.

Decastro lives and works near Frankfurt am Main and Lourmarin , France.

Exhibitions (selection)

2010: Mochental Castle, Ewald Schrade Gallery, Karlsruhe Ulm / Ehingen
2011: Gallery Susanne Erding-Swiridoff, Schwäbisch Hall
2012: “The Liberation of Thought”, Gerd Schuette Gallery, Essen-Kettwig
2012: KunstRaum-Bernusstraße, Marina Grützmacher, Frankfurt
2013: Museum of Modern ART, Maribor
2013: Bronx Artspace, New York City, USA
2013: ART-Karlsruhe with Galerie Rigassi, Bern
2013: Au center de L'attention Galerie Younique, Paris
2014: Art Fair Frankfurt (Germany), ART Lima (Peru)
2015: Art Lima, Peru
2015: "Never Evergreen" Kunstverein Heppenheim
2015: Nightmare Salon de Lirio Selim (Goa), India
2016: "level Eleven", Uhn Gallery, Königstein
2016: "Doppelganger", TAM Torrance ART Museum Los Angeles
2016: “The Liberation of Thought”, Museum Villa Seiz, Schwäbisch-Gmünd
2016: Bronxartspace, New York, USA
2017: "Coincidence & reference", Museum Villa Seiz, Schwäbisch Gmünd, u. a. with Gerhard Richter, Sol LeWitt, Willi Siber, Sandra Mann
2017: Art-Karlsruhe, Gallery Lorraine Ogilvie
2017: Badehaus Stadtmuseum Bad Soden am Taunus "Worship form and content"
2018: "BLACKBOX" (Group) art hall of the Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg
2018: South Korea: ICAPU2018 (International Contemporary Art Project Ulsan 2018)
2018: "Transfer of form and content" Galerie Z Stuttgart
2019: "Cromatico" Allianza francesa de Mexico "
2019: "Nightmare" Groupshow Chihuahua Mexico LEAC La Estacion arte contemporáneo Calle Aldama 1002 Centro 31000 Chihuahua (Mexico)
2019: "Incontro tra pittura e scultura .... sculptor Klaus Prior meets painter Eric Decastro Museum Villa Seiz in Schwäbisch-Gmünd
2019 Tempe Arizona USA Nightmare (No. 16) exhibition at FINE ART COMPLEX 1101, TEMPE, ARIZONA, USA
2020 TAM Torrence ART Museum Los Angeles USA
2020 Arte Contemporáneo ZONAMACO Mexico City
2020 Kunstverein Familie Montez in the Honsellbrücke

Publications

Ludwig Seyfarth, David Galloway (Ed.): Picaelatura. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-556-4 .
Ewald Schrade (Ed.): The fall into the picture. Galerie Ewald Karl Schrade, Karlsruhe / Ehingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-924922-56-6 .
Sandra Mann (Ed.): "SNAFU / SITUATION NORMAL ALL FUCKED UP" Eichhorn GmbH & Co. KG., Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-943619-25-6
Sandra Mann Editor: Sandra Mann © 2014 KANN-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, and authors Printed in Germany ISBN 978-3-943619-28-7
Der Kunsthandel Verlag GmbH Minerva Edition (ed.) "The Liberation of Thought Eric Decastro (2012) ISBN 978-3-943964-02-8
Brouwer Edition "AMPERFORMANCE" Curatorial director Ludwig Seyfarth ISBN 3-925286-36-5
The Kunsthandel Verlag Minerva Edition (c) 2013 "Prévenu d´avance" Kunstraum Dreieich ISBN 978-3-943964-05-9

Collections

Collection Deutsche Bank / Sal. Oppenheim, Frankfurt
Reinhold Würth Collection, Künzelsau (Baden-Württemberg)
Paul Swiridoff Collection, Schwäbisch Hall
RE collection, Wiesbaden
Hahn-Air Collection, Frankfurt
Inca Cola, Lima / Peru (Coca-Cola Group)
Mochental Castle Collection, Ehingen
Hochschild Collection, Lima, Peru
Public collection Reinhold Würth, Künzelsau
Collection Museum Villa Seiz, Schwäbisch Gmünd

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Eric Decastro 1960, FR

personal data
SURNAME	Decastro, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Le Creusot , Burgundy , France

[1] Eric Decastro 1960, FR