Patrick Corillon

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Patrick Corillon (* 1959 in Knokke ) is a Belgian sculptor and mixed media artist. He lives and works in Paris and Liège .

Patrick Corillon briefly studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège, but preferred to travel. He invented numerous figures, made objects and installations as well as art in public spaces . Since 2007 Corillon has also been active in the field of ephemeral art with musical presentations and performances .

“In 1986, at the Center Wallon d'art contemporain La Châtaignerie , he designed the exhibition“ What remains of an artist whose works have been destroyed, stolen or bought? ”In which he exhibits objects from others. So he presents what comes from the cellars or attics and studios of the invited artists such as Jacques Lizène or Jacques Louis Nyst : from the first drawings to worn work clothes with stains, but also sketches, rough drafts and drafts of incomplete projects. Patrick Corillon investigates all involuntary and parasitic traces that, in the mental and poetic sense, create “images”. In the following, he developed a series of commemorative plaques that begin with the words “maybe it is here that ...”. In a kind of walk, this project recalls the relationship between an invented story and its place. In this way Patrick speaks directly to Corillon memories and imaginations. He also emphasizes the position that fiction occupies in his work. He creates characters who develop in the course of his exhibitions and is dedicated to the fragile relationship that fiction maintains with reality.

In 1988 he developed the figure of Oskar Serti, born in 1881, died in 1959, the year the artist was born. Each exhibition is an opportunity to show individual moments from the life of this Hungarian writer and the people who were connected to him. The same story is often told from different perspectives, to which the exhibition visitor is made aware by discreet hints. Patrick Corillon slips into the role of the imaginary biographer, reporter or meticulous archivist and reports insignificant or accidental events in the lives of these characters with a series of official plates, maps, installations, catalogs and sometimes even memorial objects. For example, he presents the correspondence between Oskar Sertis and his friends, or the drawings he scribbled during telephone calls with his former partner Catherine de Sélys. "

Corillon exhibited at documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, at the São Paulo Biennale in 1994, at the Lyon Biennale in 1995, at the Sydney Biennale in 2002 and at the Brussels Biennale in 2008.

Awards

literature

  • Susanne Witzgall: Art after science: contemporary art in discourse with the natural sciences . Modern Art Publishing House, 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in situ Patrick Corillon , accessed December 28, 2016.
  2. ^ New Media art Patrick Corillon , accessed December 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 131.
personal data
SURNAME Corillon, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Knokke