D
aniel Coulet’s work invites verticality in both his canvases and in his sculptures, where gaze and thought are forced to rise. The figures or forms born there are “in tension”, in a moving balance, and they force viewers to become aware of their own instability and ambivalence. Between earth and air, between the animal and vegetable kingdoms, they are deeply present, the question of their origin hanging unresolved. Even as we undoubtably sense the heritage of scholastic thought and the longing for light, they persist in connecting us to the “materia prima” of the soil. It is not without effort or difficulty that they represent the fragility of humanity’s ability to conceive of its uprooting from gravity.
There is no assumption in this work, but rather the complex interweaving of matter and spirit. Born in 1954, the artist has shown his tenacious work, built by constantly crossing the thresholds of tradition and his century, in many galleries and national and international museums. Pasolini wrote, “…only tradition is revolutionary.” Daniel Coulet has adopted the poet’s phrase through the mastered practice of an art that leads us to the boundary’s edge, urging us to take “the step beyond” and transform our gaze through the play on values, continuities, shifts, ruptures, and variations…
Born in 1954 in Montpellier, France, lives in Paris.
2023
Galerie Le Confort des Étranges, Toulouse, France
2022
Sable de lumière 3 : De l’onirique à la lumière, Château de Taurines, France
Festival d’Auvers sur Oise, Eglise Notre Dame – médiathèque, peintures sculptures
2021
Galerie Le Confort des Étranges, Toulouse, France
2019
Les Rencontres d’Art Contemporain, Grenier du Chapitre, Cahors, France
2018
Atelier Blanc, Pierre Soulages, Daniel Coulet, Stéphane Belzère, Villefranche de Rouergue, France
Arches et encres, Château de Launaguet, France
2017
Château de Laréole, France
Galerie Le Confort des Étranges, Toulouse, France
Galerie Mézières, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
2016
Polychromies, Domaine du Carla, Castres, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, France
2013
Monument aux morts, Noueilles, France
2011
Jambe de cheval, Tramway, Blagnac, France
Mobilier liturgique, église Saint-Germain-d’Auxerre, Bordes, France
2010
Ludwig Museum, Coblence, Allemagne
Retable de Coblence, Basilique St Kastor, Ludwig Museum, Coblence
Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, France
Retable de Bordes et Mobilier Liturgique, Eglise Saint Germain d’Auxerre, Bordes, France
Galerie Franck Pagès, Baden-Baden, Allemagne
Iris, Foire internationale de la lumière, Technopali, Milan, Italie
2009
Galerie Franck Pagès, Baden-Baden, Allemagne
2008
Galerie Franck Pagès, Baden-Baden, Allemagne
2007
Galerie Libéral Bruant, Paris, France
2006
Iris, Foire internationale de la lumière, Francfort, Allemagne
Iris, Foire internationale de la lumière, Barcelone, Espagne
2005
Mythologies, Les Abattoirs, Musée d’Art moderne, Toulouse, France
Galerie Libéral Bruant, Paris, France
2004
Graphisme, Les Abattoirs, Musée d’art moderne Toulouse, France
Vitraux baies Nord et Ouest, église Notre-Dame d’Aubin, France
2001
Arche, Les Abattoirs, Musée d’art moderne, Toulouse, France
10 maquettes archéologiques, Musée Fenaille, Rodez, France
Vitraux baies Sud, église Notre-Dame d’Aubin, France
2000
Porte, Le Caveau, Rivesaltes, France
1999
Cathèdres, Les Olivétains, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, France
1998
Carré Sainte-Anne, Montpellier, France
1996-1997
Musée des Beaux-Arts Denys-Puech, Rodez, France
1995
Musée Denys Puech, Intérieurs, Rodez, France
Musée Paul-Dupuy, Toulouse, France
Galerie Éric Dupont, Toulouse, France
1994
Musée d’Art moderne, Lérida, Espagne
Chongqing Art Museum, Chine
1993
Galerie Éric Dupont, Toulouse, France
Arbres, station de métro Mirail-Université, Toulouse, France
1992
Figures, Les Abattoirs, Musée d’art moderne, Toulouse, France
Mémorial, mobilier liturgique, Rennes-les-Bains, France
Centre Bradford, Cimaise et Portique, Aussillon, France
1991
Galerie Éric Dupont, Toulouse, France
1990
Les Abattoirs, Musée d’art moderne, Toulouse, France
1988
Centre régional d’art contemporain, Labège, France
Les Ateliers des Arques, France
1987
Patrimoine, art contemporain 87, Château de Peyrepertuse, France
Galerie Bellint, Paris, France
1985
Musée d’Art moderne, Toulouse, France