Paul Devautour is a French artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Shanghai.
Life and career
In collaboration with Yoon Ja Choi he created in 1985 the Collection Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour. They conceived works and exhibitions until 2004 under the names of Buchal et Clavel, Cercle Ramo Nash, Gladys Clover, J. Duplo, Manuel Ismora, Art Keller, Claude Lantier, Alexandre Lenoir, Martin Tupper and David Vincent. Some of their collected pieces are kept at the MAMCO in Geneva. Others are part of the Frac Poitou-Charentes collection (registered under the pseudonym Martin Tupper), the Villeurbanne Institut d'Art Contemporain collection, the Centre national des arts plastiques collection.
From 2004 to 2008, Paul Devautour held the position of dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges.
Since 2008 he is the director of XiYiTang in Shanghai, an exchange platform for art school students and a residency program for young artists.
He created with Xia Yilan DeYi Studio. Their manifesto was published in 2015 in Art Press.
He opened in 2011 in a Shanghai market an independent art space named Bazaar Compatible Program.
Selected exhibitions
- Mobiles d'emprunt, Paris, Sylvana Lorenz Gallery (1989)
- Objectif Documenta, Kiel, Sfeir-Semler Gallery (1991)
- Générique vers une solidarité générationnelle, Meymac, CAC (1992)
- Aperto '93, Venice Biennale (1993)
- 21st National and International Studio Artists Exhibition, New York, MoMA PS1 (1997)
- Martin Tupper, Angoulême, Frac Poitou-Charentes, (2006)
- DeYi Studio Shanghai Paul Devautour, œuvres tardives, Quimper, Le Quartier (2014)
References
- "Paul Devautour | Centre Pompidou". www.centrepompidou.fr. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- "DEVAUTOUR, Paul - Le Delarge". www.ledelarge.fr. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- Colard, Jean-Max (1998-05-13). "Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour - Artistes sans oeuvres". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- "Cercle Ramo Nash - Artistes Art Contemporain - CRAC OCCITANIE à Sète - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain OCCITANIE / Pyrénées-Méditerranée". crac.laregion.fr. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- "MAMCO Genève - Collection - Catalogue - Claude Lantier, Collection Yoon-ja & Paul Devautour, Artforum Vol. XXV, 1990". www.mamco.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- "Générique | Centre Pompidou". www.centrepompidou.fr. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- Wutz, Maria. "Mamco / Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour". archive.mamco.ch. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- "Martin Tupper, collection FRAC Poitou-Charentes". www.frac-poitou-charentes.org. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- "Art Keller (collection Yoon Ja et Paul Devautour) ← Artists ← IAC — Institut d'art contemporain — Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes". i-ac.eu. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- "Portrait de Guy Debord". www.cnap.fr.
- "Artiste et enseignant - entretien avec Paul Devautour". artpress (in French). 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- Cascaro, David (2011-08-26). "Artiste et enseignant - entretien avec Paul Devautour". artpress (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- "Paul Devautour, oeuvres tardives". www.paris-art.com. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- "Manifeste - Passons à autre chose". Space (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- "sommaire artpress2 n°36 "Les expositions : à l'ère de leur reproductibilité"". artpress. 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- Wang, Dan. "Bazaar Compatible Program / IPA". www.instituteforpublicart.org. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- "Urban Independent Space Practice--If the Compatible is Possible | Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum". www.minshengart.com. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- Centre d'art contemporain (Abbaye Saint-André (Meymac, France)); FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (1994). Générique: Vers une solidarité opérationnelle : [exposition] Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, 10 octobre-13 décembre 1992; Génerique 2, [Marseille] F.R.A.C. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 mars-14 avril 1994 (in French). Meymac: Centre d'art contemporain. OCLC 32021257.
- "21st National and International Studio Artists Exhibition | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- Ardenne, Paul (2006-09-01). "Martin Tupper : Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, 12 mai - 2 septembre 2006". artpress (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- "DeYi Studio Shanghai "Paul Devautour, œuvres tardives" | Cnap". www.cnap.fr. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
External links
- Collection Yoon-ja & Paul Devautour at the MAMCO
- The Bazar Compatible Program, Shanghai
- Allocution sommaire in Multitudes no. 57