b. 1991 — France
Lives and works in Paris, Fr
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Solo exhibitions
2024 — Kalt 2, Kalt Artspace, Strasbourg
2024 — Carbone, galerie La Ville A des Arts, Paris
2023 — Peinture, curating Jeanne Gatard & Emmanuelle Sacchet, CHB Paul Brousse, Villejuif
2022 — Valentin Bajolle, Kalt Artspace, Strasbourg
2022 — Peintures + Dessins, galerie La Ville A des Arts, Paris
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Group exhibitions
2024 — Salon d’Automne, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris
2023 — Décembre à Montreuil, Tour Orion, Montreuil
2023 — Art Actuel, National Art Center, Tokyo
2022 — Salon d’Automne, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris
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Teaching
2022 — Drawing teacher, Penninghen, Paris
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Education
2018 — Master II — Art direction, ESAG Penninghen, Paris
2017 — International exchange program, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Cracovie
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Carbon is common to all known forms of life. It is the fourth most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant in the human body. The landscapes that Valentin Bajolle creates using charcoal (a tool largely made up of carbon) tell the story of this living matter, in motion, in front of which the viewer is a passing witness.
Whatever the scale chosen to measure, nothing that belongs to the physical world is fixed in time or space. Like charcoal, itself the product of a series of transformations, the works capture the fragment of an ongoing metamorphosis. This metamorphosis takes place over an indefinite interval. Are we witnessing the genesis of something? Is there really a beginning and an end? At what point in the cycle are we?
These forms evolve in a space that extends beyond the paper. They show themselves, protrusions whose origin remains invisible to our eyes, epiphenomena of a parallel nature that it is up to us to explore.
Presentation of a painting at the exhibition Décembre à Montreuil 2024.
Tour Orion – 16 Rue de Vincennes 12, 93100 Montreuil
Friday — Sunday : 10:00 – 19:00
Solo exhibition at the Hepato-Biliary Centre of the Paul Brousse Hospital, with the association Le Temps du Regard. With the support of the Ministry of Culture, the City of Villejuif and the Paul-Brousse Hospital. Curators: Jeanne Gatard & Emmanuelle Sacchet
Solo exhibition at Kalt Artspace (Strasbourg) from november 5 to december 10 2022.
Presentation of a painting selected for the Salon d’Automne 2022.
Grande Halle de la Villette — 211 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris
friday : 10:00 – 20:00 ; saturday : 10:00 – 22:00 ; sunday : 10:00 – 18:00
Solo exhibition at La Ville A des Arts gallery (Paris) from February 14 to 27, 2022. Each work offers an imaginary landscape, a micro-geography governed by physical phenomena in relation to nature: erosion, eruption, fusion, growth.