Dominique Figarella - Biography
Born 1966: Chambery, France
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2003 “Dominique Figarella”, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami
2002 “Dominique Figarella,” Studio A, Kunsthalle Otterdorf,
Otterdorf, Germany
2001 “Dominique Figarella,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
City
“Dominique
Figarella,” Le Chateau de Moutelimar,
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Montelimar, France
“Dominique
Figarella,” Galerie The Box, Turin, Italy
2000 “Dominique Figarella,” Thaddaeus Ropac Galerie, Paris,
France
1999 “Ainsi de suite 3,” Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain,
Sete, France
1998 “Dominique Figarella,” Galerie Brownstone, Corread &
Compagnie, Paris, France
“Dominique
Figarella,” Galerie Hoffmman & Senn, Vienna, Austria
1997 “Dominique Figarella”, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Sete,
France
“Dominique
Figarella”, “Art Basel 28’97”, Statement galerie Evelyne
Canus, Bale, Switzerland
“Amicalement
Votre,” avec Pascal Pinaud, Le Parvis Centre d’Art Contemporain,
Tarbes, France
“Dominique
Figarella”, “Meteo Show”, Galerie Meteo, Paris, France
1996 “Dominique Figarella,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
City
1995 “Dominique Figarella,” Villa Arson, Nice, France
1994 “Dominique Figarella,” Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
“Dominique
Figarella,” Galerie Meteo, Paris, France
1993 “Dominique Figarella,” Villa Arson, Nice, France
“Dominique
Figarella,” Galerie Forum Saint Eustache, Paris, France
1992 “Dominique Figarella,” Galleria de I Tribunali, Bologna,
Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2003 Galerie Evelyne Canus, organized by Evelyne Canus, Bale,
Switzerland
Ecole
des Beaux arts de Rouen, organized by Phillipe Richard, Rouen, France
“Ready
Made Color”, Galerie Corine Caminade, organized by Antoine Perrot
Centre
d’art La Passerelle, organized by Claude Briand Picard and Antoine Perrot,
Brest, France
2002 “Beyond the Pale,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
College, State University of
New York, Purchase, NY
2001 “Gesture & Material,” curated by Nikolaus Ruzicska,
Thaddaeus Ropac Galerie,
Salzburg, Austria
“Maga-hertz,”
curated by Hugues Relp, Galerie Attitude, Geneve, Switzerland
“Picture
Prone,” Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Long Island University,
Southampton, NY (July 2 - August 31)
2000 “Super-Abstr-Action,” organized by Andrea Busto, Galerie
Les Filles du Calvaire,
Paris, France
“Sweet,”
Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris, France
1999 “Decoraz(i)on,” organized by Joerg Bader, Tecla Sala,
Barcelona, Spain
“Special
Offer,” organized by Rolf Rike, Kasseler Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
“Gallery Artists,” Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle dur
Loup, France
“Abstract,” Taddaeus Ropac Galerie, Salsbourg, Austria
“Super-Abstr-action,” organized by Andrea Busto, Galerie
The Box, Turin, Italy
“Radicalite, Dire les Qualitees,” organized by Stephane
Correard, Gallerie Brownstone
Correard & Co., Paris, France
1998 “Techniques
Mixtes, Acte 1,” Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle sur Loup, France
“Printemps
Francais,” selection de l”Espace de l”Art Concret, Mouant Sartoux, France
“Paintings
Objectives,” organized by Shirley Kaneda, Galerie Evelyne Canus,
Colle sur Loup, France
Group Exhibition, Galerie The Box, Turin, Italy
“Le Droit
de Rever,” Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
“Exploiting
the Abstract,” Feigen Contemporary, New York City “Food Matter,”
curated by Stuart Horodner, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
PA
“Radicalite,”
Galerie Brownstone & Correard, Paris, France
“Ainsi de
Suite,” curated by Noelle Tissier, Centre Regional D’Arte Contemporarian
Languedoc Rousilon, Sete, France
1997 “Roland Flexner, Richard Serra, Dominique Figarella”
Galerie Meteo, Paris, France
“Stepping
Up,” Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England
“Comparez
Pour Voir,” Espace de l’Art Concret, Mousans-Sartoux, France
1996 “Ouverture,” curated by Morgane Rousseau, Chateau de
Brionnay, Brionnay, France
“Abstract/Real,”
curated by Lorand Hogyl, Museum of Modern Art of the 20th
Century, Vienna, Austria
“Thing,”
Deven Golden Fine Art, New York City
“Side
by Side,” curated by Pasacal Pinaud, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1995 Group Exhibition, curated by Craig Fisher, E. S. Vandam,
NYC
“After
Nico,” curated by Christian Bernard, selection Aperto, MAMCO, Geneva,
Switzerland
“Abstraction/Rethorique,”
curated by Catherine Perret & Stephane Correard, Galerie
Meteo, Paris, France
“Premiere
Pierre,” Galerie Meteo, Paris, France
“Et Des Poussieres...,”
Galerie Meteo, Paris, France
1995 “Material Abuse,” curated by Mark Harris, Trans-Hudson
Gallery, NJ
“L’Art d’Aimer,”
curated by Christine Dolbot and Moelled Tissier, Villa St. Claire,
Sete, France
“Abstraction
Faite,” curated by Gilbert Bronstown and Stephane Correard, Entrepots
Laydet, Paris, France
“Pitturia
Immedia,” curated by Peter Weibel, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
1994 “Art of the 90th, New Collection of Neue Galerie,” curated
by Peter Weibel, Neue
Galerie, Graz, Austria
“Nouvelle
Vague,” Musee d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1993 “Kiki the Last No. 2,” Art Concept, Nice, France
“Les
Passants du Phalanstere,” curated by Christian Bernard, Villa Arson, Nice,
France
“Art Junction
International,” Palais des Festivals et des Congres, Cannes, France
“Une certaine
Idee de la Mediterranee,” 38 Degree Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge,
France
1993 “Selection From the Cottrell Collection,” The French
Embassy, NYC
“Art/Omi,”
residency exhibition, Ghent, New York
1992 “Les Mysteres de L’Auberge Espagnole,” curated by Christian
Bernard, Villa Arson,
Nice, France
“Le Triomphe
de la Peinture,” Galerie Meteo, Paris, France
“Esprit/Matiere,”
Espace de la Creation Contemporaine, Marseille, France
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Altmann, Frederic. Nice Matin, Feb. 28, 1993
Bell, J. Bower. “Thing,” Review, Oct. 15, 1996
Bellet, Harry. “A Propos de Bale,” Le Monde, June, 1997
Bernard, Christian. “For Dominique Figarella (Elegy),”
Dominique Figarella, exhibition catalog, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Ebony, David. “Dominique Figarella,” on line reivew,
the nyc top ten, Feb. 1996 (illus.)
Figarella, Dominique. “Propos sur ma Pratique” and “Conduire
une Experience,” Pratiques Abstraites,
Rue Descartes No. 4, edited by College International de Philosophie, published
by Presse Universitaire de France
“Dominique Figarella,” Villa Arson, Nice, exhibition
catalog, 1993 (illus.)
“Dominique Figarella, Pasqual Pinaud,” exhibition catalog
with texts by Dominique Figarella, Pasqual Pinaud & Sylvie Froux (illus.)
Gourmelon, Mo. “Les Mysteres de l’Auberge Espagnole,”
Artfactum, No. 47, March-April 1993
Harris, Susan. “Spring Promenade,” Art Press, July -
Aug. 1995
Harris, Mark, “Material Abuse,” catalog essay, 1995
(illus.)
Harrison, Helen A. “The Aesthetic Bounty of Night and
Day,” The New York Times, August 19, 2001, pp. 11
Hirsh, Faye. “Dominique Figarella,” Art Forum, Sept.
1996 (illus.)
Hyde, James. “Dominique Figarella,” Art in America,
December 2001, pp. 113 (illus.)
Karmel, Pepe. “Dominique Figarella,” New York Times,
Feb. 16,1996
Long, Robert. “Works of Containment and Color,” The
East Hampton Star, July 19, 2001
Machi, Catherine. Fax, No. 3, March 2, 1993
Mahoney, R. “Dominique Figarella,” Time Out New York,
Feb. 21-28, 1996 (illus.)
Natacha, Caron. “Entretien avec Cheryl Donegan &
Dominique Figarella,” Document, No. 2, 1994
Nuridsany, Michel. Le Figaro, January 5, 2001
Nuridsany, Michel. Le Figaro, December 22, 1993
Ostrow, Saul. “The Real, the Symbolic and the Imagined:
Making the Present Presentable,” New York Arts, May, 2001, pp. 18, 19, 20 (illus.)
Ostrow, Saul. “Another Part of the Whole,” Art Press
(Special Issue “Ou Est Passe La Peinture?”), Oct. 1995
Perret, Catherine & Weibel, Peter. “Dominique Figarella,”
Neue Galerie, Gratz, exhibition catalog, 1994
Perret, Catherine. “Voir un Ciel de Nuit en Plein Jour,”
exhibition catalog, Une rose et une Rose, Galerie Meteo, 1993
Raynor, Vivien. “Unsettling Social Commentary With Materials
‘Victims’,” N.J. New York Times, March 19, 1995
Reol, Jean-Marc. “Tableaux d’un Deuil,” Nouvelle Vague,
exhibition catalog, Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, 1994
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Hidden Talents,” France Magazine,
Summer 1999
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Dominique Figarella,” Art in America,
July, 1996 (illus.)
Thout, Sophie. “Entretien avec Dominique Figarella,”
Le Journal des Expositions, January 1994
Thuot, Sophie. “Blaussyld, Everaert, Figarella, Mayaux,
Prulhiere, Le Triomphe de la Peinture,” Le Journal des Expositions, Dec. 1992
“Une certaine idee de la Mediterranee,” Nice Art Contemporaine,
Montrouge, exhibition catalog, 1993
Yektal, Darius. “College Group Show,” The Southampton
Press, August 2, 2001
CATALOGS:
“Beyond the Pale: Material Possibilities,” text by Dede
Young, exhibition catalog, Neuberger Museum of Art, 2002
“Dominique Figarella”, Studio A, 2002, text by Ulrieke
Shick
“Ready-Made Color”, 2002, essay by Antoine Perrot &
Claude Briand Picard
“De Singuliers Debordements”, 2002, essay by Olivier
Grasset & Eric de Chasset
“Super-Abstr-Action,” the Box and Les Filles du Calvaires,
2000, text by Andrea Busto (illus.)
“Special Offer,” Kasseler Kunstverein, Cologne, 1999
“De Coraz(i)on,” Tecia Sala, Barcelona, 1999, text by
Jeorg Bader
“Amicalement Votre (Dominique Figarella and Pascal Pinaud),”
Le Parvis, Tarbes, 1997, essay by Sylvie Froux (illus.)
“Abstract/Real,” Museum Moderner Kunst im 20 Haus, 1996,
essay by Lorand Hegyi
“Pittura Immeria,” Neue Gallery, Graz, 1995, essay by
Peter Weibel
“Material Abuse,” Trans-Hudson Gallery, 1995, essay
by Mark Harris (illus.)
“Nouvelle Vague,” Musee d”Art Moderne et d”Art Contemporian,
Nice,1994, essay by Jean-Marc Reol: “Tableaux d’un Deuil”
“Dominique Figarella,” Neue Gallerie, Graz,
1994. Poem by Christian Bernard and text by Catherine Perret and Peter Weibel
“Dominique Figarella,” Villa Arson, poeme by Christian
Bernard: “Elegie”
“Une Certaine Idee de la Mediterranee,” 38th Salon de
Montrouge, 1993
“Esprit/Matiere,” Espace de la Creation Contemporaine,
Marseille, 1992, text by Eric Mangio