Joël Andrianomearisoa
Living in : Paris et Antananarivo
Working in : Paris et Antananarivo
Artist's webSite
Joël Andrianomearisoa is, although born in Madagascar, undoubtedly closer to the artist of Tokyo or New York than to any of his compatriots. Hence the difficulty to define him, so many references that make him are intermingled, contradictory, sometimes. If we look at the evolution of his work, from his first textile works, directly inspired by his stylist period, to the "plane sculptures" that he explores today, we quickly realize that he is not attached to any particular technique and that, like an alchemist in search of the philosopher's stone, he does not hesitate to make use of all the forms that could bring another color to his plastic universe.
Artist's movies
Joël Andrianomearisoa - Les rêves et Les nuits
Meeting and signing on Monday 20 June 2002
"Death is present, not because of a fascination with morbidity, but because it is a real moment of life. I am perhaps a little too Malagasy in this, because I give death a temporality of the order of celebration."
Extract from the interview with Joël Andrianomearisoa and Tom Laurent, published in the latest issue of the magazine Art Absolument
Artist's exhibitions
09/06/2022 - 17/09/2022
(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
19/05/2021 - 29/08/2021
(Paris) Musée de l'histoire de l'Immigration
03/04/2021 - 01/11/2021
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
16/05/2020 - 01/11/2020
(Chaumont-sur-Loire) Domaine régional de Chaumont sur Loire
11/05/2019 - 24/11/2019
(Venise) La Biennale de Venise, Arsenal et Giardini
08/06/2016 - 03/09/2016
(Paris) Galerie RX
artist_books
Joël Andrianomearisoa - Breeze of the red sun
"Architect of the distant, the melancholy and the unfinished desire, Joël Andrianomearisoa could not find better figure to drape than the clear laughter of Saint Louis, more beautiful funereal city to stretch of black oriflammes that the thousand six hundred meters of ramparts of Aigues-Mortes, and more disturbing swamps of salt to soak of ashes that the roses Salins of the South." Book publis ...