Solitaire

Collège des Bernardins, Paris

2016

Stéphane Thidet

Rubis Mécénat partnered with the Collège des Bernardins to provide a blank slate for the artist Stéphane Thidet to conceive work for the old sacristy at the Collège upon the initiative of the curator Gaël Charbau. With Stéphane Thidet’s site-specific work the space underwent a complete metamorphosis. A large quantity of water contributed to the creation of a contemplative, architectural and mental landscape. At the heart of the device, Thidet conceived a strange ‘drawing machine’, an unseen, liquid, mineral and solitary choreography, which comes into itself under the vaults of the old sacristy.

Stéphane Thidet

Stéphane Thidet, born in 1974, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, graduating in 1996. He pursued his education at Paris’ prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he graduated in 2002. He now lives in Paris and works in Aubervilliers. His work is centred around the ideas of the transience of the elements and of using objects as a source of both resistance and reconstruction.

His art features in many public and private collections. Stéphane Thidet has been represented for the past ten years by the Aline Vidal gallery in Paris, and the Laurence Bernard gallery in Geneva. His work has been exhibited in La Maison Rouge, the Palais de Tokyo and in numerous modern art galleries in both France and abroad.

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