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Emmanuel Régent
Emmanuel Régent lives and works in Villefranche-sur-Mer and Paris. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 2001, and in 2009 he won the Discovery prize of the friends of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where his solo exhibition was held the following year. In 2012, he was a finalist for the MasterCard Prize and the Canson International Prize, whose exhibition took place at the Petit Palais in Paris. In 2014, Emmanuel Régent is resident on board the schooner Tara / Agnès b Foundation, for an itinerary that will take him from the Cyclades in Greece to Lebanon. In 2015, he was awarded the public commission for the Rivesaltes Camp Memorial, a historical site whose architecture was created by Rudy Ricciotti in France. In 2018 one of his large drawings from the Palmyra series was exhibited for a year at the French Consulate in New York, the same year he was awarded the Hermès Foundation residency at the Saint-Louis Crystal until 2019.
In 2023, Emmanuel Régent is invited to two solo exhibitions in Japan at the Tottori and Shikano art centers. His work is regularly presented in galleries and institutions in France and abroad and his works are present in private and institutional collections: Voorlinden Museum (Netherlands), Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art (Nice), Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Muséo Ettore Fico (Turin, Italy), Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur (Marseille), Raja Foundation, City of Vitry-sur-Seine (MAC/VAL), Fonds Municipal d’Art de la Ville de Villefranche sur Mer, Fondazione Rivoli2 (Milan, Italy), Fondation d’entreprise Hermès (Paris).
Emmanuel Régent develops a work that is composed as well with classic techniques as with cutting-edge technological protocols. Known for his drawings, deliberately incomplete and always made with fine black felt-tip pen, the artist also develops a sculptural and pictorial practice. His paintings, titled Nébuleuses, are made up of different layers of monochrome paints that he sands down in places to reveal the hidden colors. It multiplies the possibilities of a production with variable geometry around the willingly opposed concepts of absence, erasure, proliferation and recovery.
Emmanuel Régent’s work plays on discretion and self-effacement and invariably prefers a little to excess. This bias allows him to create discreet art that fits the world without excess.
Emmanuel Régent lives and works in Villefranche-sur-Mer and Paris. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 2001, he was the 2009 winner of the Discovery Prize of the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo where his individual exhibition will be presented the following year.
