FRANCOIS XAVIER FAGNIEZ BORN IN 1936

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Born in 1936 in Salies-de-Béarn, he trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The artist lives in France, dividing his time between the Ile-de-France region and the Atlantic coast, and has been exhibited in several galleries since 1956 (Galerie Philadelphia, Galerie Jacques Massol, Galerie Pierre Domec...). In 1963, he was selected for the Prix Fénéon (galerie Katia Granoff).
In 1965-67, he produced several mosaics in Miami, Hawaii and France. He exhibited in Switzerland, Denmark and Saigon. In 1977-78, he founded the Bellechasse Internationale gallery in the Beaubourg district, which represented him in Paris until 2000. He took part in the FIAC from 1980 to 1985.
His themes include the garden, the island and transparency, as well as work on free paper with collages, tears and tempera pigmentation.
The Musée du Luxembourg owns several of his works.

Poetic and sensitive, François-Xavier Fagniez's work embodies a direct and powerful relationship between the artist and his creative process. It goes beyond social commentary and anecdotal discourse, focusing instead on the primary, elemental sources that have always fascinated and inspired him. Devoid of pathos, her works are not about humanity, but about that which is greater and more timeless than it. They explore the representation of nature in contemporary art, while reflecting a deep intimacy with the organic. Her treatment of landscape involves not only visual representation, but also the transposition of the pleasure one gets when alone in a landscape. A tribute to nature, but above all a tribute to place, to the pleasure of being there, of observing the progress of water and its cycle: cloud, rain, stream, river, ocean.

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