Paul Devautour
{{short description|French artist}}
Paul Devautour is a French artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Shanghai.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Paul Devautour {{!}} Centre Pompidou|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/id/cqkKE6/r5ke77/fr|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.centrepompidou.fr|language=}}{{Cite web|title=DEVAUTOUR, Paul - Le Delarge|url=http://www.ledelarge.fr/print.php?IDFiche=23268|access-date=2020-11-01|website=www.ledelarge.fr}}
Life and career
In collaboration with Yoon Ja Choi he created in 1985 the Collection Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour.{{Cite web|last=Colard|first=Jean-Max|date=1998-05-13|title=Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour - Artistes sans oeuvres|url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/1998/05/13/musique/concerts/yoon-ja-paul-devautour-artistes-sans-oeuvres/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-01|website=Les Inrockuptibles|language=fr-FR}} They conceived works and exhibitions until 2004 under the names of Buchal et Clavel, Cercle Ramo Nash,{{Cite web|title=Cercle Ramo Nash - Artistes Art Contemporain - CRAC OCCITANIE à Sète - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain OCCITANIE / Pyrénées-Méditerranée|url=http://crac.laregion.fr/artiste_contemporain/676--cercle-ramo-nash/3172-artistes-art-contemporain-crac-montpellier-sete.htm|access-date=2020-11-02|website=crac.laregion.fr}} Gladys Clover, J. Duplo, Manuel Ismora, Art Keller, Claude Lantier,{{Cite web|title=MAMCO Genève - Collection - Catalogue - Claude Lantier, Collection Yoon-ja & Paul Devautour, Artforum Vol. XXV, 1990|url=https://www.mamco.ch/1017/Catalogue/2961/Claude-Lantier-Collection-Yoon-ja-Paul-Devautour-Artforum-Vol-XXV-1990|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.mamco.ch}} Alexandre Lenoir, Martin Tupper and David Vincent.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Générique {{!}} Centre Pompidou|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/id/co4jjxG/fr|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.centrepompidou.fr|language=}} Some of their collected pieces are kept at the MAMCO in Geneva.{{Cite web|last=Wutz|first=Maria|date=|title=Mamco / Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour|url=https://archive.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/D/devautour.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-01|website=archive.mamco.ch}} Others are part of the Frac Poitou-Charentes collection (registered under the pseudonym Martin Tupper),{{Cite web|title=Martin Tupper, collection FRAC Poitou-Charentes|url=https://www.frac-poitou-charentes.org/pages/collection_artistes-tupper_FRAC.html|access-date=2020-11-01|website=www.frac-poitou-charentes.org}} the Villeurbanne Institut d'Art Contemporain collection,{{Cite web|title=Art Keller (collection Yoon Ja et Paul Devautour) ← Artists ← IAC — Institut d'art contemporain — Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes|url=http://i-ac.eu/en/artists/231_art-keller-collection-yoon-ja-et-paul-devautour|access-date=2020-11-02|website=i-ac.eu}} the Centre national des arts plastiques collection.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Portrait de Guy Debord|url=https://www.cnap.fr/collection-en-ligne#/artwork/140000000067073?layout=grid&page=1&filters=authors%3ACERCLE%20RAMO%20NASH%E2%86%B9CERCLE%20RAMO%20NASH|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=www.cnap.fr}}
From 2004 to 2008, Paul Devautour held the position of dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges.{{Cite web|date=2011-08-26|title=Artiste et enseignant - entretien avec Paul Devautour|url=https://www.artpress.com/2011/08/26/artiste-et-enseignant-entretien-avec-paul-devautour/|access-date=2020-11-01|website=artpress|language=fr-FR}}
Since 2008 he is the director of XiYiTang in Shanghai, an exchange platform for art school students and a residency program for young artists.{{Cite web|last=Cascaro|first=David|date=2011-08-26|title=Artiste et enseignant - entretien avec Paul Devautour|url=https://www.artpress.com/2011/08/26/artiste-et-enseignant-entretien-avec-paul-devautour/|access-date=2021-02-27|website=artpress|language=fr-FR}}
He created with Xia Yilan DeYi Studio.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Paul Devautour, oeuvres tardives|url=https://www.paris-art.com/paul-devautour-oeuvres-tardives/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.paris-art.com}} Their manifesto{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Manifeste - Passons à autre chose.|url=https://audessusduradiateur.wixsite.com/space/passons-a-autre-chose|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Space|language=fr}} was published in 2015 in Art Press.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2015-02-10|title=sommaire artpress2 n°36 "Les expositions : à l'ère de leur reproductibilité"|url=https://www.artpress.com/2015/02/10/sommaire-du-artpress-n36-les-expositions-a-lere-de-leur-reproductibilite/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-02|website=artpress|language=}}
He opened in 2011 in a Shanghai market an independent art space named Bazaar Compatible Program.{{Cite web|last=Wang|first=Dan|date=|title=Bazaar Compatible Program / IPA|url=https://www.instituteforpublicart.org/case-studies/bazaar-compatible-program/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-01|website=www.instituteforpublicart.org}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Urban Independent Space Practice--If the Compatible is Possible {{!}} Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum|url=http://www.minshengart.com/en/category/activity-list/detail!Minsheng-Lecture-Practice-of-urban-independent-space-Compatible-possibilities|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.minshengart.com|language=}}
Selected exhibitions
- Mobiles d'emprunt, Paris, Sylvana Lorenz Gallery (1989)
- Objectif Documenta, Kiel, Sfeir-Semler Gallery (1991)
- Générique vers une solidarité générationnelle, Meymac, CAC (1992){{Cite book|last1=Centre d'art contemporain (Abbaye Saint-André (Meymac|first1=France))|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32021257|title=Générique: Vers une solidarité opérationnelle : [exposition] Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, 10 octobre-13 décembre 1992; Génerique 2, [Marseille] F.R.A.C. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 mars-14 avril 1994.|last2=FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|date=1994|publisher=Centre d'art contemporain|location=Meymac|language=French|oclc=32021257}}
- Aperto '93, Venice Biennale (1993)
- 21st National and International Studio Artists Exhibition, New York, MoMA PS1 (1997){{Cite web|title=21st National and International Studio Artists Exhibition {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4603|access-date=2020-11-04|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}
- Martin Tupper, Angoulême, Frac Poitou-Charentes, (2006){{Cite web|last=Ardenne|first=Paul|date=2006-09-01|title=Martin Tupper : Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, 12 mai - 2 septembre 2006|url=https://www.artpress.com/2006/09/01/martin-tupper-frac-poitou-charentes-angouleme-12-mai-2-septembre-2006/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-04|website=artpress|language=fr-FR}}
- DeYi Studio Shanghai Paul Devautour, œuvres tardives, Quimper, Le Quartier (2014){{Cite web|title=DeYi Studio Shanghai "Paul Devautour, œuvres tardives" {{!}} Cnap|url=https://www.cnap.fr/deyi-studio-shanghai-paul-devautour-oeuvres-tardives|access-date=2020-11-04|website=www.cnap.fr}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.mamco.ch/en/1280/Collection-Yoon-ja-Paul-Devautour Collection Yoon-ja & Paul Devautour at the MAMCO]
- [https://w1d3cl183.1mm3d1at3.org/en/bcp00.html The Bazar Compatible Program, Shanghai]
- [https://www.cairn.info/revue-multitudes-2014-3-page-269.htm# Allocution sommaire] in Multitudes no. 57
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