Gildas Coudrais was born 1975 in Cholet, France. He makes paintings, drawings, installations and mixed media artworks.
With his gleam and sparkle signal colours, he gets very close to the aesthetics of pop-culture. The painting on glass – highly brilliant and intensely compressed – partially loses its materialistic character and approaches to the modern media of our time.
He experiments with a wide-ranged repertoire of history of art which he combines, literally, with quotations from media, advertising and poetry.
Taken out of context the parts lose their original meaning and values and the art becomes a multi-layered piece on its own: mysterious, fantastic, and poetic. With his cheerful, partly ironic honesty, the artist puts the fragments and symbols in a new geographic, moral and intellectual context.
What is standard, what is kitsch – what is “bon gout”? His works question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of our society.
Gildas Coudrais currently lives and works in Germany.
In Berlin Gildas Coudrais is represented by the gallery 68 projects.
Artistic Curriculum Vitae
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Solo Exhibition (Selection)
- 2016
Gallery Kornfeld, Berlin, Germany - 2015
Gallery BOA, Paris, France
Private Art Concept, Los Angeles, USA
Gallery Damihi, Bern, Switzerland - 2014
Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA
Gallery Damihi, Bern, Switzerland - 2013
Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA - 2012
Gallery Damihi, Bern, Switzerland - 2007
Stadtgalerie, Osnabrück, Germany
Gallery im Kloster Malgarten, Bramsche, Germany - 2006
Gallery Schwarz-weiss, Osnabrück, Germany
La Charbonniere , Ancenis, France
Museum Villa Stahmer, Georgsmarienhütte, Germany - 2002
Centre d’art contemporain “Bouvet-Ladubay”, Saumur, France
Group exhibition (Selection)
- 2015
La Grosse Bertha, Paris, France - 2014
Artstadtbern, Bern, Switzerland - 2012
Artstadtbern, Bern, Switzerland
Gallery Schwarz-weiss, Osnabrück, Germany - 2011
Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany - 2006
Arte regionale IV, Melle, Germany
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Photo: via Gildas Coudrais