{"id":4448,"date":"2017-06-22T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T21:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2019-12-24T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T20:46:01","slug":"francois-xavier-delmeire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/francois-xavier-delmeire","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Delmeire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGarden Party for Alice<\/em>
\n5.5″x9″; cut-and-paste collage; 2015<\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Delmeire
\nMouscron, Belgium<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is a collage a second chance for an image? Or perhaps a new reality emerges, which is also an open door.<\/p>\n

Each of my collages tells a story, a saga, a moment in life. Also, depending on the moments of a life (which is not to say “Once upon a time”), a story that’s sometimes sad or melancholy, sometimes happy. My collage technique is simple: cut the paper and paste.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Delmeire (born 1971 in Moustron, Belgium) is a lover of images. For over 20 years, he’s owned a bookstore specializing in graphic novels. During that other life, he also became an artist and a devoted creator of collages and assemblages.<\/p>\n

Raised to the level of Fine Art by the avant-garde of the 20th century, collage is inseparable from the Surrealist movement. This practice of irreverence par excellence<\/em> cultivates discrepancies and diversions. The collagist isn’t content to merely displace reality, he engenders an unprecedented aesthetic and intellectual experience.<\/p>\n

Facing the rush of contemporary images, Delmeire’s collages are a gourmet experiment. His works are conducive to humour and subtle reflection. His “mosaics” play with images and words to create a new sensitive and poetic language.<\/p>\n

He has exhibited in Belgium and France, including at Swimming Pool in Mouscron (2014); in “object Obliges” at the Verbeke Foundation in Stekene, Belgium (2015-2016); in “Ixelles Bruxelles” at Galerie Gaetane Duez in Brussels (2016); and in “L’acte de pr\u00e9sence” (solo show) at Laurence Esnol Gallery<\/a>, Paris (3 February-10 March 2017).<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

+32 471 86 12 61
\n[click to email<\/a>]
\nwww.facebook.com\/francoisxavier.delmeire<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThere Is Here and Your Memory<\/em>
\n8″x8″; cut-and-paste collage; 2017<\/p>\n

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\nThe Soul Wanders<\/em>
\n8″x8″; cut-and-paste collage; 2016<\/p>\n

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\nFlight Point<\/em>
\n8.3″x8″; cut-and-paste collage; 2016<\/p>\n

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\nAsceticism<\/em>
\n15″x13.4″; cut-and-paste collage; 11 June 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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