Ivan De Monbrison
Ivan De Monbrison
Ivan De Monbrison


Born In Paris, 1969.

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1989-1990: College year, Bard College, Annadale on Hudson USA.
1990-1993: College years in Paris, in oriental languages.
1994-2000: Curator's assistant in the musée Picasso, Paris.
1995-2000: Three poetry books published; éditions la Bartavelle.
November 2003: Part of a group show in New York, for Raawart.
january 2005: One man show in the galerie l’ARTicle,
Paris.
september 2006: One man show at la galerie Orsel, Paris
march 2007: One man show at la galerie Art de la Vie, Paris
october 2007: One man show at l'Espace Timbaud, Paris
october 2007: Radio Interview, podcast on Indiesis.com.
may 2008: One man show at Espace Arsinoé, Paris.
december 2008: One man show at galerie art'est, Paris
december 2008: Drawing published by the UNESCO (still online)
march 2009: Group show at galerie art'est,Paris.
may 2009: Part of a talk show « Ce soir ou jamais » on tv, channel Three, France.
june 2009: Publication of an interview in France in Indiesis (magazine)
september 2009: One man show at Espace42, Paris.
septembre 2009: Poetry book published with images of sketchings by the author.
décembre 2009:One man show at "Regards Interdits", Paris.
june 2010: Group show at the "Espace42" Paris.
january 2011: Group show at the Boxheart Gallery Pittsburgh USA
march 2011: Poem and painting published in the Paris based magazine: Do Not Look at the Sun.
april 2011: One man show at the Espace42, Paris, publication of a booklet for the show, with images and
poems.
August 2011: Article Bluriness shaped in the magazine Hesainprint (Finland) with six reproductions of artworks.
August 2011: Interview of the artist published in the Arthash blog.
September 2011: Group show at the Siena Art Institute, Italy
November 2011: Group show at the Galerie du Croissant, Bruxelles, Belgium.
December 2011: Group show « 99 artistas » at the Maxo Galeria, Barcelona.

Statement
Art is for me the only answer in our modern world to the question of death and the fragility of human nature. Through the ages human beings have used the representation of the world as a medium to conjure what they saw has powerful elements of nature that they could not explain and which would threaten them, it included spirits of the ancestors, forces of nature, death itself etc. I think this process is still at the core of the art medium. To represent ourselves is still a mirror to our own self, and the consciousness we have of it is reflected in the very image on the surface. In a world of
technology to choose to use still a very classical medium like painting is a way to set a bridge with the past resisting the facility of technology but with the will to represent the world with a modern eye. That is why i choose to paint mostly in black and white and to represent human beings more as
shadows than as fleshy bodies. They are incarnated in the canvas but not yet fully present. I hope that people who have experienced pain and loss in life as absurd and meaningless will be able to connect with these ghostly shapes as images of the sens of precarity they may feel, giving it a depth that goes far beyond the simple pleasure of the eye .