STATEMENT Lionel Bayol-Themines is a visual artist who lives and

STATEMENT
Lionel Bayol-Themines is a visual artist who lives and works in Paris, France. He’s been a permanent resident of the
National Foundation for Graphic and Plastic Arts (FNAGP) in Paris, since 2004. He was invited as “guest of honor“
for the « Price Voies Off » Rencontres d’Arles in 2009. His work is regularly presented in national and international
exhibitions, fairs and galleries and is the subject of regular publications, lately FOAM magazine (on Earth No. 44) of
the Amsterdam museum has published a portfolio of recent work next to the presentation of Marcel Feil.
Inspired by the philosopher Vilém Flusser - who has questioned the history of images and their creation process
- as well as by some artists - such as Joan Fontcuberta - who have worked on the assumed truth of photography,
its ability to represent reality, to give evidence or manipulate History, Lionel Bayol-Themines is developing a visual
universe in which two worlds - or rather two spaces - one real, the other virtual - coexist in a symbiotic relationship.
While for a long time photography was seen as a way for nature to represent herself *, today, the evolution of
digital technologies allows the creation of unprecedented images that question this new space of representation
that is the virtual world, this new code generated by man. Reality captured by digital cameras can be modified at
will by algorithms, such as the Photoshop software, that allows you to «reveal» digitally the images. This is how only
from single shots carried out on existing sites, Lionel bayol-Themines produces singular images: in the course of the
creation process, some fragments of the original images are «revealed» through a variety of 3D tools before being
assembled to the photograph they were extracted from. By revealing those weird landscapes, the artist questions
the making of images and the ability of digital photography to generate other «realities».
* see Joan Fontcuberta, Le baiser de Judas, éd. Actes Sud, 2005, p.20.
André Rouillé
This is not a photographer.
Paris Art, 12 juin 2013
(…)
The composite and (by computer) mixed nature of the works by Lionel Bayol-Themines separates them from photography, of which they make literally burst the poetry and the regime of truth.
(...) The works of Lionel Bayol-Themines, like those of artists who are at the crossroads of the world of photography,
of contemporary or digital art, are not less real than the most famous photojournalism prints. The one and the other
are just true differently. They refer to antagonist truth regimes. While the documentary shots based on the belief
that the truth can be collected and captured by contact and by recording at the surface of appearances, photographic works from visual artists are the result of an open constructivist approach in which photography is a plastic
material selected for its ability to record - and, as a material, promised to unlimited assemblages, mixes and plastic
actions.
Photographic truth is statable, visual and affirmative unlike the plastic truth, which is more processural, discursive,
problematic and sensitive. Lionel Bayol-Themines is not representing something, he expresses plastically anthropological, cultural and language phenomena, that go beyond the order of things and the visible.
(...)
The work of Lionel Bayol-Themines is fully contemporary in so far as it resonates with the current state of a world
that has become elusive in a single way, and impossible to be totalized. A world in which different times, speeds and
spaces are juxtaposed, and where one of the creation challenge is to forge paths amidst chaos ...
(…)
André Rouillé
ARWARDS
Artist in residence at the National Foundation of Graphic and Plastic Arts (FNAGP), Paris
2005:
Research arward of the New Contemporain Museum of Art (Mac/Val), Vitry-sur-Seine
Residence program at the National Foundation of Graphic and Plastic Arts (FNAGP), Paris
1995 and 2000:
Grant from the Ministry of Culture, Paris, France
SOLO SHOWS (selection)
2015
2014
2013
2011 2010 2009 2008 2005 2004 2003 2002 2000 1999 1998 1996 1995 1994 International bienal of design St Etienne, France
La Mazarine, Paris, France
Kandler Gallery, Toulouse, France
Paris Photo, Saint-Germain-des-Près, Maia Muller Gallery, Paris, France
Maïa Muller Gallery, Paris, France
A Gallery, Paris, France
Art Elysées, Solo show, Kandler Gallery, Paris, France
Le Cube, Art 3OOO, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
International Biennal of Photography, Timisoara, Romania
National Foundation of Graphic and Plastic Arts (FNAGP), Hôtel Salomon de Rotschild, Paris, France
Art Paris, solo show, Carrousel du Louvre, Christian Croset Gallery, Paris France
Past Ray Gallery, Yokohama Japan
ATHA Museum, Vitoria, Spain
H2O Gallery, (Primavera Fotográfica), Barcelona, Spain
1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France
H2O Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Issis Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Hokari Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Photo Espana 98, Buades Gallery, Madrid, Spain
XS Gallery, Basel, Swizerland
Inernational Biennal of Photography, Turino, Italy
Ken Damy Museum, Brescia, Italy
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2014 2013 2012
2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 “ Contre Plongée ”, Le Colysée, Maison Folie de Lambersart, Lille, France
“ 70 Combats pour la Liberté ”, Le Radar Art Center, Bayeux, France
Auer Ory Foundation for Photography, Contemporary Art Center, BAC, Geneva, Switzerland
“ Collection du Château d’Eau ”, Institut Français, Madrid,
“ Aquavitalis ”, Arthothèque of Caen, France; curated by Paul Ardenne and Claire Tangy,
“ Mouvances ”, Contemporary Art Center, Foundation M+M Auer, Geneva, Switzerland
Art Paris fair, Maïa Muller Gallery, Paris, France
A Gallery, Cutlog Fair, Paris, France
Room Gallery, Collaborators project # 2, London, England
Collection of the M+M Auer Foundation, Modern Art Museum, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Slovakian National Gallery, Slovakia
“ In fashion ”, Art Basel Miami Fair, USA
Art Cologne (Palma de Mayorca), Collection M+M Aeur
M+M Auer Collection, Maison Bernard Anthonioz (FNAGP), Paris, France
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1994 1991 Contemporay Art Center, Liege, Belgium
Maison Rouge (Antoine de Galbert Foundation), Paris, France
Ruan Redon Collection, Foundation Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Kandler Gallery, Paris, France
Art Basel, 1900-2000 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
“Fragments”, Raffael Tous collection, University Museum, Alicante, Spain
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France
Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Kandler Gallery, Paris, France
In Focus Gallery, Köln, Germany
Humus Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Carmen de la Guerra Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Paris Photo, Carousel du Louvre, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France
Art Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Kahn Gallery, Paris, France
Marcel Fleiss collection, Institut of Culture, Barcelona, Spain
Hokari Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Urania Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Paris Photo fair, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
FIAC, 1900-2000 Gallery, Paris, France
1900-2000 Gallery, Month of photography, Paris
International Biennal of Photography, Tarazona, Spain
Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
International exhibitiion of Photographic Research, Royan France
ARTIST BOOKS (selection)
2015
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009 2008 2007
2006 2004 1995
Titanesland box ed on 15 ex
«Utopy» ed on 15 ex ( Internatioanal bienal of design St Etienne)
“Typology of human language”, LBT books, leporello, edition of 30
“Human Language”, published by Chez HIggins, with a preface by André Rouillé
“Carnet N°2 - Utopy”, LBT books, ed of 30
“Carnet N°1 - Typology of Human Language” LBT books,ed of 30
“Dédipix #2”, LBT books, leporello, edition of 30
“Landscape Invasion” published by Chez HIggins, Paris
“Keep Border”, published by Chez HIggins, Paris
“Dédipix #1”, LBT books, leporello edition of 30 + 5 artist proofs
Intimity, Landscape invasion, Keep border, LBT books, edition of 30
“Titanesland», published by Fujifilm
“OrgaMuta” and “ Intimity ” published by Chez Higgins
“Nuques coussins colosses fleurs jambes”, LBT books, Paris, ed. of 15
“Solitudes”, LBT books, Paris, ed. of 15
“Orga Muta”, LBT books, Paris, ed. of 15
“Update”, published by Jannink, Paris
“Heroes Would Save Us“, LBT books, Paris, ed. of 10
“Autoportraits”, original portfolio, ed. of 100
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2016
2014 2013
2012
2010 2009 Foam Magazine On Earth N°44 , Amsterdam Nederland
“Les hommes de caractères”, 2, publish by Les Cahiers intempestifs, France
“70 Artistes pour la liberté”, exhibition catalogue, Bayeux France
“Aquavitalis”, exhibition catalogue, Arthothèque de Caen, France
“Mouvances, exhibition Catalogue by the Auer Photo Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Portfolio in ArtTravel magazine, France
Portfolio in Camerata, Samsung Fondation, Corea
“Collection M+M Auer”, catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo, Brasil
2008 2007 2006 2004 2003 2002 2001 2001 1999 1998 1995 1994 1993 1990
Les Cahiers intempestifs, n° 23, France
“Kitch Catch”, exhibition catalogue, Musée International d’Art Modeste, Sète, France
“Regarde les enfants”, exhibition catalogue, M+M Auer collection, Montpellier, France
“Photo books” (802 Photobooks from the M + M Auer Collection), Switzerland
“Friends”, exhibition catalogue, M+M Auer and FNAGP, Nogent sur Marne, France
“Encyclopédie mondiale des photographes”, M+M Auer Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
“La guerre hors champs”, exhibition catalogue, 4 ème rencontres d’Orléans, France
Collection Ruan Redon Fundation Collectania, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, Spain
“Primavera”, catalogue of the photography biennal, Barcelone, Spain
Exhibition catalogue, “Nuques coussins colosses fleurs jambes”, musée ATHA, Vitoria Spain
“Fragments”, exhibition catalogue, Rafael Tous collection, Introducted by Marta Gili, Museum of the Univer
sity of Alicante, Spain
“El nu Fotographic”, Fondation Caixa de Sabadel, Spain
“Histoire d’œufs”, M. Auer, published by Ides & Calandes, Geneva, Switzerland
“Jardin d’Eros”, exhibition catalogue, Institut de la Culture, Barcelona, Spain
Catalogue “photo news”, Musée Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
“Sixth Turino Biennal”, exhibition catalogue, Edition Skira, Italy
“Photographes en Midi-Pyrénées”, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
“Mémoires”, exhibition catalogue, CCA, Albi, France
SIRP, exhibition catalogue, Royan, France