MICHEL BIOT 1936/2020.

INTERESTING MIXED TECHNIQUE (GLUE PAPER, FOLDING, CIRCA70) Beautiful solid oak frame.
MICHEL BIOT WAS DESCRIBED AS A "PAINTER OF THE ELEMENTS".
Strongly inspired by the elements of nature, Michel Biot seeks to express emotions, inner forces and the life of the elements on his canvases. His work, with its musical overtones, explores the vertigo of space. Through abstraction, he offers us a striking vision of nature, original and passionate.
From 1952 to 1955, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. From 1960, he worked in Robert Lapoujade's studio. His first solo exhibition took place in 1964, at the L'œil écoute gallery.
From 1960 to the present day, Michel Biot has painted over 6,000 canvases, and the artist has been the subject of more than 90 solo exhibitions, both in France, in Paris (Galeries JCL Bellier, DLM, Henri Benezit, Galarte, Artitude, Espace Châtelet Victoria , Etienne de Causans) and in the regions (Lyon, Limoges, Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Troyes...) and abroad: Switzerland (Lausanne), Netherlands (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Delft), Luxembourg, Spain (Madrid), Mexico (Institut de l'Amérique latine), USA (New-York, Nassau, San Francisco, Kansas City.

Winner of the Feneon Prize in 1970.
Article by René Deroudille, La Dernière Heure and Journal Le Tout Lyon: "(...) Slowly, writing fades away to give way to more lyrical impulses, to sensations laid bare, deployed in their pure state on canvas (...) These are the papier collés where, exasperated by the inertia of a restive material, Michel Biot tears, lacerates to free himself from these material fetters, without forgetting to let the cyclones of his anger appear on the paper (...)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (donation Pierre Granville) ;
Paintings: La Déferlante, Les Cicatrices du Ciel, Le Surplomb de la pierre rouge, Le Léman, Terre d'Espagne, Femme-galet, Mer et ciel confondus, La Mer boit la lumière, Autre secret, L'Homme devant l'infini.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (Suzanne and Henri Baderou donation)
Musée de la main, Lausanne (Claude Verdan foundation)

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