Born in 1984 in Paris. Antoine Renard lives and works between Lourdes and Paris.
The artist is represented by the Nathalie Obadia gallery in Paris and Brussels.
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Graduated from the National School of Art in Dijon in 2008, In 2019, he was the winner of the Occitanie Prize of the Villa Medici and benefited the same year from a residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as well as from the CNAP artistic project support. In this context, The artist performs several research trips to the Peruvian Amazon forest, In connection with the Takiwasi Centro Tarapototo.
Antoine Renard benefited from major personal exhibitions, notably Psycho Botania, City of Sciences, Paris, France, 2022), Geometries of -L-O-V-E, Very, Berlin (Germany, 2019), Cats in the city, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium, 2018). In 2021, A personal exhibition at the Sète CRAC was devoted to his research focusing on the ritualized practices of the perfume carried out in Italy and Peru.
The Vortex workshops invite Antoine Renard to produce a new installation in their exhibition space.
"Antoine Renard is interested in memory, both bodily, History and olfactory.
During his residence at the Villa Medici, He studied the ritualized practices of perfume in Rome and followed perfumero healers in Peru. He himself makes each scent from plants he macerated or synthetic molecules. The propensity of perfume to arouse memories deepens this relationship to the truth of the model, to whom the artist thus gives a presence, an identity. This work on smells also testifies to the bias of the nuance and pays tribute to the infinite complexity of a person, scaled down, of his time, caricature and silence.
For more than ten years, Antoine Renard develops a sculpture work, installation or video, in which it invites what is in the shadows, tapi in the corners of the subconscious, Where he darkens and flattens the mechanisms of fear and anxiety that sometimes irrigate our relationship to reality to transgression. If it invites advanced technologies and high tech digital imaging, It is often to frelaty them, twist them in their use, push the error potential and the deviances of the machine.
Creating a porous environment where chemicals, digital and psychic merge, The artist opens up tracks of dialogue between currents of thoughts that are dear to him, such as veganism, Mystical theology, structuralism and scientific logic. »»
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