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Pierre-Olivier Arnaud
Nouveaux \u00c9l\u00e9ments – part I
13 f\u00e9vrier – 1 mars 2025 | February 13 – March 1, 2025, Art : Concept, Paris <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pierre-Olivier Arnaud
Nouveaux \u00c9l\u00e9ments – part II
15 mars – 5 avril 2025 | March 15 – April 5, 2025, Art : Concept, Paris <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pierre-Olivier Arnaud & Nick Oberthaler. Set de table #5<\/a>, No Center Can Cut (Neuch\u00e2tel Edit), 2025. Impressions sur papier | C-print

Vue d\u2019exposition | Installation view: No Center, CAN Centre d\u2019art Neuch\u00e2tel, 04.10\u201321.12.2025. Photo: Sebastian Verdon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pierre-Olivier Arnaud & Nick Oberthaler. Set de table #5<\/a>, No Center Can Cut (Neuch\u00e2tel Edit), 2025. Impressions sur papier | C-print

Vue d\u2019exposition | Installation view: No Center, CAN Centre d\u2019art Neuch\u00e2tel, 04.10\u201321.12.2025. Photo: Sebastian Verdon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, simulation d\u2019implantation de Place du Jour, 2023 \u00a9 Pierre-Olivier Arnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, The Averty Show, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers\/FR. 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, The Averty Show, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers\/FR (curator\u2009:\u2009Jill Gasparina)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre (abstract-marguerite), 2015
impression sur papier baryt\u00e9 et contrecollage diasec
polyptyque de 7
56\u00d740 cm chaque
58 \u00d7 40 \u00d7 2 cm (22 \u215e \u00d7 15 \u00be \u00d7 \u00be inches). Photo Claire Dorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, The Poster Show, galerie Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin\/DE. 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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D\u00e9grad\u00e9s II, 2009
digital print on A4 paper, 30 images
Dimensions variable
Edition of 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view Josy\u2019s Club (avec Denis Savary), Synagogue de
Delme, Delme\/FR. 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00e9l\u00e9ment, 2022, offset print on paper and found object.
Installation view home alonE, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022. Photo : Bruno Silva.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Lumi\u00e8res du jour, MAMCO, Gen\u00e8ve\/CH. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Lumi\u00e8res du jour, MAMCO, Gen\u00e8ve\/CH. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Lumi\u00e8res du jour, MAMCO, Gen\u00e8ve\/CH. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the Preview was tomorrow, 2007
1 polaro\u00efd, 3 offset print, quadriptyque, dimensions variables.
Installation view Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin\/GE. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the Preview was tomorrow, 2007 (d\u00e9tail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the Preview was tomorrow, 2007 (d\u00e9tail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the Preview was tomorrow, 2007
1 polaro\u00efd, 3 offset print, quadriptyque, dimensions variables.
Installation view Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin\/GE. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the Preview was tomorrow, 2007
1 polaro\u00efd, 3 offset print, quadriptyque, dimensions variables.
Installation view Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin\/GE. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, projet : cosmos 1.1, Audi Talents Awards, FIAC 2010, Grand Palais, Paris\/FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, projet : cosmos 1.1, Audi Talents Awards, FIAC 2010, Grand Palais, Paris\/FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, (p\u00e2le), IN EXTENSO, Clermont-Ferrand\/FR. 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre (abstract-marguerite), d\u00e9tail, 2015, impression sur papier baryt\u00e9 coll\u00e9 sous diasec, polyptyque de 7 pi\u00e8ces \/ print on baryte paper pasted under diasec, polyptych of 7, 56 x 40 cm each, 22 7\/8 x 15 3\/4 x 0 3\/4 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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sans titre (abstract – fleur 01), 2014, impression sur papier baryt\u00e9 coll\u00e9 sous diasec \/ print on baryte paper pasted under diasec , 57,5 x 43 cm (22 5\/8 x 16 7\/8 in.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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sans titre (play still_35), 2016, s\u00e9rigraphie sur papier, 176 x 120 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view Cosmos 2, Le CAP, Saint-Fons\/FR. 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view Art in the age of extinction, Belvedere du Rayon Vert, Cerb\u00e8re\/FR. 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pierre-Olivier Arnaud<\/strong>
sans titre (abstract – jour 04), 2014 impression sur papier baryt\u00e9 et contrecollage diasec
57,5 \u00d7 43 \u00d7 2,5 cm (22 \u215d \u00d7 16 \u215e \u00d7 1 inches)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pierre-Olivier Arnaud<\/strong>
sans titre (abstract – rayon 03 – negative), 2014 impression sur papier baryt\u00e9 et
contrecollage diasec
57,5 \u00d7 43 \u00d7 2,5 cm (22 \u215d \u00d7 16 \u215e \u00d7 1 inches). Collection priv\u00e9e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view Halo, Galerie Skopia, Gen\u00e8ve\/CH. 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse\/FR. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre, (projet : cosmos \u2013 fleur 14), 2010, s\u00e9rigraphie sur papier, 175 x 119 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre, (projet : cosmos \u2013 Marquise Kosmos 03), 2010
Silkscreen on paper
117 \u00d7 78 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Who\u2019s afraid of design, Cit\u00e9 du Design,
Saint-Etienne\/FR. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Who\u2019s afraid of design, Cit\u00e9 du Design,
Saint-Etienne\/FR. 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre (signal), 2004-2005
photographie noir & blanc contrecoll\u00e9e sous diasec
36,5 \u00d7 30 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sans titre, 2004-2005
Diasec black and white photo, 30 x 36,5 cm (11 3\/4 x 14 3\/8 in.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pierre-Olivier Arnaud was born in 1972. He lives and works in Lyon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work is based on the image, that is to say the image as a motif but which tends to disappear. He questions the status that the images he collects can have, a status that is relatively blurry because of the very precariousness of these motifs and their identity. Perhaps this is why the artist does not define himself as a photographer, who takes an image for what it is and gives it to be seen in an immediate and literal way. On the contrary, it is with the invisible, fragile qualities of images, in their non-obviousness and in the representations and interpretations they can give rise to, that Pierre-Olivier Arnaud works with. Moving away from a concrete look at the image, he produces a multitude of often abstract motifs, almost always in black and white, blurring our established vision and “de-sublimating” the visible. The image thus dissolves “at first reducing the motif to bring us, in the next stage, to get closer to it and look at it in detail”*. The artist’s works are a somewhat dark, direct and honest vision of the world: inviting us to look at things differently, going beyond the evidence of glossy aesthetics and penetrating the identity itself of an image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work is featured in the following public collections: CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris\/FR; Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; Fonds Cantonal de D\u00e9coration et d\u2019Art Visuel, Geneva; Fonds Municipal d\u2019Art Contemporain, Geneva; Institut d\u2019Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France, Paris; Fonds Municipal d\u2019Art Contemporain, Paris; FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-L\u00e8s-Rouen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent solo shows: \u00c9l\u00e9ments, home alonE, Clermont-Ferrand (2022), Premiers Mat\u00e9riaux, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (2018); A Long Distance Call, Optica, Montr\u00e9al\/CA (2012); Lumi\u00e8res du jour, MAMCO, Gen\u00e8ve\/CH (2009); Magasin, Centre National d\u2019Art Contemporain, Grenoble\/FR (2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*See the exhibition: Biens Communs III, Mamco, Geneva, cycle l\u2019\u00c9ternel D\u00e9tour, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the gallery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n