Julien Audebert, Premier feu, 2021
Ektachrome. 19 × 23,2 cm (7 ½ × 9 ⅛ inches) ; 35 × 40 cm (13 ¾ × 15 ¾ inches) (framed). Edition of 3. Photo Romain Darnaud. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, ParisVue d’exposition / Installation view Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris/FR. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud Vue d’exposition / Installation view Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris/FR. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde (Anaïs), 2023. Tirs au pistolet, huile sur cuivre, encadré / Shooting, oil on copper, framed. 40 × 40 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris Julien Audebert, La nuit du monde (Anaïs), 2023. Tirs au pistolet, huile sur cuivre, encadré / Shooting, oil on copper, framed. 40 × 40 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “In this world, I’m a stranger”, 17.11.22 – 31.01.23, HiFlow, Genève. Courtesy the Artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by: Thomas Cerato Eden 12, Oil on copper, 36 × 55 × 1 cm (14 ⅛ × 21 ⅝ × ⅜ inches). Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris Installation view Julien Audebert, another green world, Art: Concept, 2020 Obsidionales (Doradille des fontaines), 2019. Oil on copper, 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. Obsidionales (Panicaud géant), 2019. Oil on copper, 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. Obsidionales (Anacycle de Valence), 2019-2020. Oil on copper, 18 x 15 cm (7 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.) Eden 1 (Danien), 2019-2020. Oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 48 7/8 in. Inclusion (1798), 2020. Contact printing on barytine paper, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in., edition of 5 Le chariot de Mars, 2017-2018. Black and white pigment print, laminated on aluminum under diasec, 47 1/4 x 127 1/2 in.(image), 59 x 139 3/8 in. (framed), edition of 5 + 2 AP Mars & Vénus, phases d’opposition, 2016. 35 mm digital film (4K) movie, color, sound, 10’30, edition of 5 + 2 AP Danse américaine, 2015, lambda print under diasec,13 3/4 x 85 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP, detail Danse américaine, 2015, lambda print under diasec,13 3/4 x 85 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP, detail Sommet de l’OTAN, 2015 lambda print on mate paper
44 x 78 cm (17 3/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
46,3 x 80,4 x 4 cm (18 1/4 x 31 5/8 x 1 5/8 in.) framed
ed of 5+ 2 APSommet de l’OTAN, 2015 detail Tutto sta in un pugno, 2014, Digigraphie print on barytine paper pasted on dibond under diasec 60.96 x 114.8 cm (24 x 45,2 in) edition of 5 + 2 AP Installation view L’atelier fermé, public artwork commemorating 50 years of Georges Braque’s death, Varengeville/FR 2013. detail of the installation view L’atelier fermé, public artwork commemorating 50 years of Georges Braque’s death, Varengeville/FR 2013. Livres, 2012. Contretype on photosensitive paper, 22 1/4 x 22 1/4 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP Livres, 2012. Detail EST/OUEST, 2012. Lambda print pasted on dibond under diasec, 111 x 396 cm, édition de 5 + 2 EA. Installation view J’aimes les Panoramas, Mucem Marseille, 2016. Photo Yves Ichierman The Searchers,detail 2009-2010. Digigraphie printing on traditional photo paper pasted on dibond under diasec 32 1/4 x 118 1/8 in. (image), 33 7/8 x 119 5/8 in.(framed), edition of 5 + 2 AP The Searchers,detail 2009-2010. Digigraphie printing on traditional photo paper pasted on dibond under diasec 32 1/4 x 118 1/8 in. (image), 33 7/8 x 119 5/8 in.(framed), edition of 5 + 2 AP 1925-1964, 2008. Lambda print pasted on aluminium under diasec, 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP Campagne Première, 2006. Lambda print pasted on aluminium under diasec, 30 3/8 x 47 5/8 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP Royal Albert Hall, 2005. Lambda print pasted on aluminium under diasec, 22 1/2 x 78 3/4 in., edition of 5 + 2 AP
Biography
Born in 1977 in Brive La Gaillarde, Julien Audebert lives and works in Paris. Whether it be cinema or photography, History is a central subject in his work. It is dialecticized, reconstructed or exhumed, through processes from which emerges the ideology underlying the dominant cultural forms (cinema, media, literature, pictorial genres…). His works often materialize a point of tension or climax of a political or military nature where geographical variables play a particular role.
Since 2019, Julien Audebert has been painting and working on a a series of small works with oil on copper. His most recent series, Obsidionales, consists of small oil paintings on copper following his large-scale battlefield “Nocturnes” (and his recent film Mars and Venus…). These exogenous “flowers of war” moved by the soles of soldiers, railroad or horses, are painted, centred in the middle of the frame, as a child would do, done alla prima (a technique imposed by the adhesion on the copper). These works, such as his recent aquarium paintings (Eden…), create conflagration between the subject and an often invisible historical underpinning.
His work is present, among others, in the following collections: FRAC Aquitaine; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; FRAC Auvergne; FRAC Haute-Normandie; FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon; FRAC Pays de La Loire; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Solo exhibitions include: Et omnia vasistas, Galerie vasistas, Montpellier ( 2020); L’atelier fermé, commande publique de la commune de Varengeville, dans le cadre du cinquantenaire de la mort de Georges Braque, Varengeville/FR (2012); Les Jeux funéraires, Art:Concept, Paris (2011); Fort du Taureau, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (2009).
Selected group exhibitions/festivals: Acta est fabula, École des beaux-arts de Nîmes/FR (2019); Pool Internationales, TanzFilmFestival Berlin, Dock 11, Berlin/DE (2019); The LA Dance, Film Festival, Los Angeles/US (2018); Mars et Venus, Phases d’Oppositions, le Portland Danse Film Fest 2017, Portland/US (2017).
His first monograph was published by Mousse Publishing in 2022, with texts by Philippe-Alain Michaud and Corinne Rondeau.
At the gallery
Videos
- Interview de Julien Audebert – Mars & Vénus, phases d’opposition, 2016
- Rencontre pour l’exposition Périodes, 2016
- L’atelier fermé – Julien Audebert, 2013
- FIAC 2012 / focus on the artwork EST/OUEST, 2012