• Révolutions 17 - Ⅰ, 150 x 40 x 180cm, plexiglas, painting, nylon, 2011
    Didier Mencoboni
  • Révolutions 15, 450 x 350 x 230cm, plexiglas, painting, nylon, 2011
    Didier Mencoboni
  • Révolutions 19, 100 x 120 x 270cm, metal,plexiglas, nylon, 2011
    Didier Mencoboni
  • Double Révolutions Ⅰ/Ⅱ, 90 x 70 x 150cm, plexiglas, painting, nylon, 2018
    Didier Mencoboni
  • S6, 30 x 30 x 127cm, Metal, nylon, plexiglas, painting, 2013
    Didier Mencoboni

From canvas, paper, fabric to plexiglas, Didier Mencoboni has wide range of medium, but all his works are the result of experiment in consistent context. On the contrary to past artists who radically showed only one form, he developed his style complementing formative language. In the early 90’s, he draw the series “…Etc..” that he transformed various types and themes to his own style. Until now, he has made more than 2,000 pieces of works and they are all numbered.
Mencoboni’s abstract paintings provoke the interaction between geometrical and systematic forms, at the same time the contradiction; natural and artificial, irrational and rational, continuous and discontinuous. Another feature of his works is the “Joy of beauty” which is rare characteristic in the modern art world. The sublime from the inside and visual beauty from the outside, each level gives different impression. Moreover, his art comes from the flow of ideas. Through self-created divisions and variations, he guided the viewers to a path of abstraction that lies in complete freedom and joy.

크고 작은 오브제, 캔버스, 종이, 직물, 그리고 플렉시 글라스에 이르기까지 다양한 재료를 아우르는 디디에 망코보니의 작업은 겉보기에는 다양해 보이지만 모두 일관된 맥락의 실험의 결과물이라는 공통점이 있다. 그의 조형실험은 변화되는 규칙을 지니며 발전한다. 이전 추상미술의 선배들이 급진적으로 오직 하나의 형식을 보여주었던 것과는 달리, 그는 끊임없이 그 스스로의 조형언어를 보완해 나가며 작품 형식을 개발해 나간다. 90년대 초기부터 제작하기 시작한 “…Etc..”연작은 다양한 형식과 주제를 그의 언어로 풀어낸 작품들이다. 현재 작품 개수가 2000점이 넘고 모두 완성이 된 후 번호가 매겨져 있다.
망코보니의 추상회화는 기하학적이고 유기적인 모양들의 상호작용을 불러일으키는 동시에 모순적이다. 생명성이 느껴지는가 하면 인공적인 느낌이 들기도 하며, 비이성적인 동시에 이성적이며, 연속적인 동시에 불연속적이다. 그의 작품의 또다른 특징은, 현대미술에서 좀처럼 찾기 힘든 요소인 ‘즐거움’을 찾을 수 있다는 점이다. 매우 다양한 층위의 아름다움이 존재한다. 표면에서부터 깊은 숭고미 마저 느낄 수 있다. 또한 그의 예술은 아이디어의 흐름에서 온다. 변화와 파열, 스스로가 만든 분열과 변주를 통해  관람자들을 완전한 자유와 즐거움에 놓여있는 추상의 길로 안내한다.  

 

Didier Mecoboni
(France, b. 1959)
Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges (ENSA-Bourges)   

Education

1978-1982  the School of Fine Arts of Quimper 

Exhibition

2018    Portrait de famille, Galerie Oniris, Rennes
          Didier Mencoboni, Château Lescombes, centre d'art contemporain, Eysines*

2017    Episode XII, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

          Episode XI, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

          Règles souples, Galerie le domaine perdu-L[oft]319, Meyrals*

2016    ...Etc...1996-2006, a selection of paintings, Zero gallery,798 Art District, Beijing

2015    Un pas de coté, Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine*

2014    Episode X : génération ...Etc..., Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

2013    Playing with colors, Sinsegae gallery, Busan*

          Playing with colors, Sinsegae gallery, Séoul*

          Playing with colors, Sinsegae gallery, Incheon*

          Playing with colors, Sinsegae gallery, Gwangju*

2012    Eclats et variations, Chapelle de la visitation, Thonon-Les-Bains*

          Housecolor 1, Nuit Blanche, Kiosque Raspail, Ivry-sur-Seine

          Housecolor 2, Nuit Blanche, kiosque Lénine, Ivry-sur-Seine

          Episode IX: Révolutions, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

2011    Recto verso, Guest Room Contempory Art, Bruxelles

2010    Révolutions, Guest Room Comtempory Art, Bruxelles*

          Episode VIII, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

          S'y perdre, Galerie municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine*

2009    Vers la frontière, FRAC Paca hors les murs, Tourette-sur-Loup

          Random Remake, Guest Room Contemporary Art, Bruxelles

2008    Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris

          Episode VII, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

2006    Un an, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

2005    Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

2003    Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

          Galerie Archétype, Bruxelles

2000    FRAC Alsace, Sélestat*

          FRAC PACA, Marseille*

          FIAC, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

1998    Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Aubusson

          Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

1997    Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris

1996    Centre d'Art d'Ivry-sur-Seine*

1995    Galerie Stadler, Paris*

          Galerie Julio Gonzalez, Arcueil

1994    Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts de Quimper*

          Galerie de l'Orange Bleue, Douchy-les-Mines

1993    Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen*

          Centre d'Art et de Culture "La Coupole", Combs la ville*

1992    Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse

1991    Centre d'Art, Ivry-sur-Seine*

1990    Galerie de L'Ancien Collège, Chatellerault*

1987    Galerie Arlogos, Nantes

1986    Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier

1983    Attention peinture fraîche, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice*

 

Collection

Centre Georges Pompidou, Donation de la Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain
Frac Picardie, Amiens
Fondation Colas, Paris
Artothèque de Caen
Collection d’art contemporain de la ville de Vitry-sur-Seine
Frac Alsace, Sélestat
Domaine de Chamarandes, Conseil Général de l’Essonne
Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges
Frac Picardie, Amiens
Artothèque de Caen
Frac Alsace, Sélestat
Frac, Paris
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Angers
Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges
Frac Bretagne, Châteaugiron
Frac Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand 
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Frac Paca, Marseille
Frac de Seine Saint Denis, Bobigny
Frac de Franche Comté, Dôle
Musée National d'Art Moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris
Artothéque de la ville de Nantes
Frac Bretagne, Chateaugiron