ART(ist) #2

Stéphane Thidet

Rubis Mécénat gave a blank slate to the French artist Stéphane Thidet in 2016 to conceive an art work for the old sacristy at the Collège des Bernardins upon the initiative of the curator Gaël Charbau.
The installation Solitaire, realized in situ, uses an impressive amount of water to create a contemplative architectural landscape that inspire a reflective state of mind. The art work is a part of the artist’s mediations about time and his explorations of the “aura” of materials.

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.