EDOUARD WOLTONUltima Thule

17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire 75003 Paris01 42 74 47 05www.fillesducalvaire.comparis@fillesducalvaire.com

Opening on Thursday 12 March 2020 from 6pm to 9pmExhibition from 13 march to 25 April 2020

PRESS KIT

Thought as a total space, Ultima Thule can be seen as a mental journey into the limits of perception and the rational world. The title refers to a mythological island described by the explorer Pythéas in the 4th century BC and presented as the last of the British archipelago, the most northerly point. Source of fantasies, Thule appears as an invitation to travel which, by its extreme mythical position, symbolizes an unsurpassable absolute, close to the idea of the end of the Earth. These metaphorical limits impose themselves on Wolton’s work as many possible orientations. He sets up his own algorithm of shapes, materials, colors, and proportions - and by extension ensures his artistic freedom.

From studies on mathematical forms inspired by the golden ratio (divine proportion), through alchemy or science fiction, Edouard Wolton gives us hallucinated visions of allegorical landscapes. It offers a crossing of iconographic universes with multiple sources, where rationalist and naturalist traditions coexist. Like an odyssey of look and thought, the spectator is invited to project himself into a space where the sciences fade away in favor of the imagination and poetry. Reality then slowly seems to slide towards the dream, like the possibility of crossing Alice’s mirror.

During the opening of Ultima Thule, « Φ », an artist’s book produced in collaboration with Léa Bismuth, will be presented. Published in serigraphy by the artist, this book conceived as a 4 hands work, offers a dialogue between Bismuth and Wolton around source images and unpublished texts which accompany the reader on a new initiatory journey.

For his second solo exhibition at Galerie Les Filles du calvaire, Edouard Wolton will present a body of original works, bringing together paintings, sculptures, printed works and installations.

17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire 75003 Paris01 42 74 47 05 / www.fillesducalvaire.com / paris@fillesducalvaire.com

EDOUARD WOLTONUltima Thule

Opening on Thursday 12 March 2020 from 6pm to 9pmExhibition from 13 march to 25 April 2020

En couverture : Madame (detail), 2018Alugraphy on BFK, 70 x 100 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Rhombicuboctahedron, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 45 x 55 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Babel, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 200 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Fibonacci n°1, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 200 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Nautilus, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 200 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

The Wall, 2019Oil and acrylic on canvas, 162 x 130 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

IMAGES FOR PRESS

Madame, 2018Alugraphy on BFK, 70 x 100 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Fibonacci n°1, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 200 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Nautilus, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 200 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Rhombicuboctahedron, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 45 x 55 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

The Wall, 2019Oil and acrylic on canvas, 162 x 130 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

Cartographie, 2018Oil and acrylic on canvas, 180 x 160 cmCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris)

EDOUARD WOLTONBorn in 1986 in Paris.

Lives and works in Paris.

Edouard Wolton’s recent pictoral practice is based on one guiding theme: the painting of landscape; more precisely, the tradition of the composed landscape, is not painted from nature but in the studio, using different elements of the landscape to compose an imaginary landscape, an ideal, a vision of the mind rather than a realist representation. He received his diploma from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2010. In 2015, he won the Pierre Cardin Award, given by the Fine Art Academy (Paris). In 2017, he presented a solo exhibition entitled Cosmos at the Musée de minéralogie de l’Ecole des Mines (Paris). Recently, he has also taken part in several exhibition in Paris and abroad : Felix Art Fair (Los Angeles), Internationales Triennial of printed art (Hangzhou, China), Kommunale Galery (Berlin), Archiv Massiv (Leipzig), Silkeborg (Danemark), Circulo del Arte (Barcelona).

EDUCATION

2011 Member of Atelier Croisé ENSBA/ENS, 2011/20122010 Obtention du DNSAP aux Beaux-Arts de Paris2008 Etudiant à l’UDK (universität der kunst) à Berlin, Allemagne2005 Etudiant à l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) dans l’atelier de Dominique

Gauthier et de Wernher Bouwens.

SOLO SHOWS

2018 « aérolithes », Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz, France.2017 Cosmos, Musée de minéralogie, Ecole des Mines, Paris, France SoloShow - ArtParis Artfair, Grand Palais, Paris, France2015 Agartha / Photométéores, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France2012 Geometrie der Natur, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Allemagne2010 T, en vue du DNSAP, atelier Dominique Gauthier au Beaux-Arts de Paris, France2009 Les puits, galerie des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France2008 les mines, en vue du DNAP, galerie des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France2007 Les stations, galerie des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

GROUP SHOWS

2019 Paris Peinture Plus», Galerie Slika, Lyon, France Paris Peinture Plus, Galerie MR14 , Paris, France. Programme «résonnance» Biennale de Lyon 2019 ROUND 2 Printfighter galerie 100titres, Bruxelles, Belgique2018 Noir, Comité des galeries Françaises, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA. 2nd International Triennal of printmaking, French Pavillon, CAA museum, Hangzhou, Chine

Printfighter / PRINTJAM, Multiple Art Days, La monnaie de Paris, France. PRINTJAM 2 Komunnale Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2017 L’Eternité par les Astres, Les Tanneries, Amilly, FrancePrinters Matters, 23 rue Richer, Paris, FrancePrinters Matters 2, Multiples Art Days , la Maison Rouge, Paris, France

2016 COAL s’expose, Le Consulat, Paris, FranceMatin, Midi et Soir, Galerie RueVisconti, Paris, FrancePRINTJAM / Multiples Art Days, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FranceSevres OutDoors, Sèvres, FrancePRINTJAM, Danske Grafikeres museum, Silkeborg, Danemark

2015 Pléiades, espace Clovis XV, Bruxelles, BelgiquePRINTJAM, Circulo del arte, Barcelone, Espagne

Pléiades, Introduction, Festival META, Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris, FranceJ’ai pris une pierre pour voir le monde, Le Huit, Paris, France

2014 PRINTJAM, Archiv massiv, Spinnerei, Leipzig, AllemagneEsperance Tuning, espace des arts sans frontières, Paris, France

2013 Vues, Domaine de chamarande, France58ème salon de Montrouge, le Befroi, Montrouge, France

2012 Excavation, exposition en collaboration avec Fabien Cosson, espace Lhomond, Paris, FranceTranches de Carrés sur Tranches de Cercles, Saline royale d’ Arc-et-Senans.Lander: polysémie du paysage, Beaux-arts de Rennes, France

2011 Tire toi une bûche, la générale en manufacture, Sèvres, France2010 Sans titre, au 104, Paris, France2009 Goldener Kentaur 2009, Münchner Künstlerhaus, Allemagne

Paris/Vienne, Beaux-Arts de Paris et à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Vienne, France et AutricheExposition collective du pôle édition/impression des Beaux-Arts de Paris, galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FranceL’estampe contemporaine, centre culturel l’Ermitage de Reuil-Malmaison

2008 Edouard Wolton/Saphir Shraga, galerie des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2015 Pierre Cardin Award (painting), given by l’Académie des Beaux-ArtsCRISTAL Residency, Megève

2012 Residency at The Spinnerei, Leipzig2011 Verdaguer 2011 Award (painting), given by l’Académie de France2010 Residency at Le 104, Paris 2009 Nominated for the Drawing Award, Académie des Beaux-Arts

Salon de Mai, Painting Award

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