EN Biography
GRISOR Dominic born in 1947, France
lives and works in Lille (F)
His work follows two tracks: on the one hand, a hyper-realist pictorial component that depicts imaginary landscapes that our collective unconscious associates with the United States, and a more conceptual component of fragmentary works, abstract or figurative, incorporating language.
CLEAR 2016
Painting on cutting aluminum, white neon 180 x 25 cm
Private collection
What is unique about the Grisor approach is its use of simple, universally memorized subjects that seem to immediately convey meaning. Great savings in means are made for space.
Grisor creates truths with the object and space, its own truths, while onlookers take their time and fragments of reality appear to be turned away from their target, triggering yet another glimpse. Its demonstration of resemblance and bare composition has kindled a relaunch.
Evocative action prevails over absolute description to make thought visible, one detail sufficing in evoking the whole.
For Grisor, the fragment rings out as an entity.
With the subject forming its own framework and its relation with space transformed into a sign, a play is made on full and empty spaces. A stimulus of colour and memory guides the spectator into its world, following the rationale of its own handling of living experience.
Embedded in this work is something absolute, an atmosphere that will be played in all of its shapes and subjects, while ruling out references.
Each one can follow his own course, freely.
Y.S
ALAN BAY 1995
Acrylic on canvas 100x81 cm
A word of warning: any resemblance to an existing landscape is entirely coincidental. In Grisor's paintings, it is the imagination that constructs an almost photographic reality. Although he uses vernacular markers that the collective unconscious often associates with American landscapes, such as palm trees, azure desert skies, large buildings and stylised signs, his latest paintings on canvas are born of his own everyday mythologies, nourished by the vibrations of the 'contemporary' world.
It would be an understatement to say that his work is distinguished by the exacting technical demands that the artist places at the service of his vision, with the precision of a goldsmith. To see this for yourself, all you have to do is pay close attention to his rendering of light and texture, and his tireless attention to detail. In the background, he conveys his capacity for wonder, a fundamental notion here. Some may prefer the term hypervausibility rather than hyperrealism to describe Grisor's style. The fact remains that these paintings generate a formal evidence that establishes an immediate communication with the viewer.
Solo exhibitions
J&M Davidson Gallery - Londres (G.B)
Médiathèque Trith Saint Léger
Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques, Valenciennes
Abbaye de St Riquier
Galerie Lithos Mouscron (B)
Publications
Selected Bibliography
Textimoov, édition Lille 3 000 & Stichting KUNSTBOEK BV 2024
Topographies de la lumière, édition La manufacture de l’image 2021
Biographie GRISOR par Gérard Durozoi aux éditions Invenit
Catalogue ''4 à 4'' Musée Paul Valery Sète 2014 F.OBJOIS
Extraits de 1988 à 2013 édition personnelle Y.STEVEN 2013
LAM Histoires 2010 Musée d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq
Catalogue Atelier de la Monnaie 2008 Musée des Beaux Arts de Lille
Catalogue Editions Alain BUYSE Musée de Graveline 2006
Art Actuel nov/dec 2005 H.KAMPIANNE
Art et Métiers du livre n°236 juin 2003 C.COMENTAL
Couleurs mai 2002 V.SEBILLE
Catalogue Fondation Wicar Rome 2001 Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse Lille
Dictionnaire des Arts Plastiques, modernes et contemporains, Ed. Gründ 2001 J.P. DELARGE
Plaquette Atelier 2 Villeneuve d'Ascq avril 2000 L.BOITEL
Place des Artistes Christian LOUIS édition Sedrap 1992
Artistes en Nord Pas de Calais ORCEP Conseil Régional 1991
Catalogue Collection de la Banque Populaire du Nord 1991
Le Nouvel Observateur 23 novembre 1989 P. CARTERON
Plaquette Galerie J.Moussion Paris 1989
Plaquette Musée de la Chartreuse Douai 1989 G.DUROZOI
Musée de Douai octobre 1989 B. VERMANDER-QUENEHEN
Carte Blanche 1987 Musée d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou
Catalogue F.R.A.C. Nord/Pas de Calais 1984 C. DAVID
Neuf années d'acquisitions d'art contemporain 1983 Musée de Tourcoing G.DUROZOI
Catalogue des ''Images d'Aujourd'hui'' 1983 Niort G.DUROZOI
Catalogue panoramique Nord/Pas de Calais 1983 Musée d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq
Le Figaro 18 aout 1982 R. CRESSENT
Canal n°55 avril 1981 G. DUROZOI
Cimaise n°147 1980 P.GAUTHIER
Catalogue Musée de Toulon novembre 1980
Jungle novembre 1980 M. VILLARD
Novedades, Mexico juillet 1980 M.G. ORCEJO
Arts n°203 juin 1980 E.ARTAUD
La Croix 29 mai 1980 J. BARON
Libération 21 mai 1980 S. YOUNAN
Le Quotidien de Paris 2 mai 1980 P.R.D
Le Figaro 2 mai 1980 J.M. TASSET
Canal n°39 1980 G.DUROZOI
Catalogue galerie Etienne de Causans 1980 G.DUROZOI
Catalogue ''Les uns par les autres'' 1979 Musée des Beaux Arts de Lille
Futurs n°5 1978 A.TRONCHE
Canal n°12 Opus International n°66/67 1978
Vie des Arts 1977 G.DUROZOI
Terz Occhio n°3 1975 E.JAGUER
Collections
Banque Mondiale Washington
F.R.A.C, Nord - Pas de Calais
Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq
Banque Edmond de Rothschild, Paris
Banque Populaire du Nord
Trois Suisses International
Ambassade du Brésil, Paris
Ville de Lille
Les Amis du Centre Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris
Conseil Général du Nord
Musée d'Art Moderne, Nice
Musée de l'Estampe, Gravelines
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Université Catholique de Lille
Nombreuses collections particulières en France, Europe, Etats-Unis
Contact
Represented by the Cédric Bacqueville Gallery - Lille, FranceE-mail : contact@galeriebacqueville.com
Phone : +33 (0)6.99.69.04.04
Web : www.galeriebacqueville.com
E-mail : grisor@bbox.fr
Phone : +33 (0)6.63.31.52.00