Olivier Masmonteil Explained

Olivier Masmonteil
Birth Date:	1973
Birth Place:	Romilly-sur-Seine, France
Nationality:	French
Field:	Painting

Olivier Masmonteil (born September 23, 1973, Romilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French artist. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux from 1996 to 1999. As a painter, Olivier Masmonteil dedicates his work exclusively to landscapes.^[1] While offering a variety of treatment, the paintings of Olivier Masmonteil assume a thematic unity which the landscape is both the substance and form, subject and object, the content and container.^[2] Globetrotter artist, he has started a second world tour in Asia (India, Thailand, Vietnam) and South America (Chile, Brazil).^[3]

Selected works

• Tempête à Giverny, 2011, oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm
• La Dordogne, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 270 cm (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs collection)
• Cascade Argentine, 2010, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 235 x 240 cm (Fondation Eileen S. Kaminsky Family collection)
• Routes du monde, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 27 x 35 cm each (Fondation Colas collection)
• Augenweide XVI, 2004, oil on canvas, 250 x 280.5 cm (FNAC collection)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2020:

• Serial Colors, L’Artothèque, Caen (à venir)
• Horizons so big, Suquet des artistes, Pôle d'art moderne et contemporain de Cannes
• The veil erased, Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico, Paris

2019:

• Countryside, Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico, Paris

2018:

• The space of metamorphoses, Cité des Arts, Chambéry

2017:

• From Gimel to Ushuaia, château de Sédières, Clergoux (Corrèze)

2016:

• Portrait, Galerie Dukan, Saint Ouen

2015:

• LE put in Diane, Patio Art Opera, Paris

2014:

• A week and a day in Prague/ A week and a day in Prague, Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery, Prague
• Courtesans, Galerie D.X, Bordeaux
• The memory of the past, Galerie Dukan, Paris

2012:

• Place, La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Ontario, Canada
• Olivier Masmonteil, Galerie du CAUE, Limoges, France

2011:

• Walden ou la vie dans les bois, Galerie Domi Nostrae, Lyon, France

2010:

• The long and winding road, Galerie Dukan&Hourdequin, Marseille, France
• Quelle que soit la minute de jour, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, France

2007:

• Olivier Masmonteil, Klare Ferne, French Institute, Berlin, Germany

2006:

• Pêcher l’eau, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France

2005:

• Olivier Masmonteil, Augenweide, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

2012:

• Plaisirs de France, curated by Philippe Costamagna, Baku, Azerbaijan and Almaty, Kazakhstan

2011:

• A Glimpse at French Contemporary Painting, Galeria Tap Seac, Macao, China^[4]
• Des paysages, des figures. Carte blanche à Olivier Masmonteil, Le Château de Saint-Ouen, Saint-Ouen, France

2010:

• Collection 3, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France

2008:

• Délicatesse des couleurs, Hangar 7, Salzburg, Germany

2007:

• Peinture: Génération 70, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France

2004:

• Climats, cyclothymie des paysages, Centre national d’art et du paysage, Vassivière-en-Limousin, France

Awards, grants and residencies (selection)

2005-2006:

• Residency Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

2002-2003:

• Residency La Source-Villarceaux, France

2002

• Painting Prize, Fondation Coffim, France

Collections

• FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Funds) Haute-Normandie, France
• French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France
• Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, New York, USA
• Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon Foundation, France
• Colas Foundation, France
• FNAC (National Contemporary Art Fund), France
• FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Funds) Alsace, France

Further reading

• Book: Malherbe, Anne. Olivier Masmonteil, The long and winding road. Galerie Dukan&Hourdequin. 2010.
• Book: Collection 3, Peinture et dessin. Fondation pour l'art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon. 2010.
• Book: Lurin, Emmanuel. Olivier Masmonteil. Suzanne Tarasiève Paris and Editions Ides et Calendes. 2009.
• Book: Délicatesse des couleurs. Red Bull Hangar-7 GmbH. 2008.
• Book: De leur temps (2): art contemporain et collections privées en France. Musée de Grenoble. 2007.
• Book: Malherbe, Anne. Philippe. Piguet. Peinture(s) / Génération 70. Fondation pour l'art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon. 2007.
• Book: Buhl, Susann. The Wrong Line. Suzanne Tarasiève Paris and Spinnerei. 2006.

External links

• Artist's Website
• Artist’s page on doukan hourdequin gallery’s website

Notes and References

1. Pierre-Evariste Douaire (May 2011), "Interview of Olivier Masmonteil", Paris Art
2. Philippe Piguet (2004), Olivier Masmonteil ou l’insoutenable nécessité de peinture, in Olivier Masmonteil: Lightscape, Suzanne Tarasiève Paris
3. http://www.dukanhourdequin.com/olivier_masmonteil_world_painting_tour World Painting Tour
4. http://www.icm.gov.mo/fam/22/en/events/detail.aspx?id=3574 The Macao Arts Festival (MAF)