Biography
Sébastien Bayet is a contemporary artist born in March 1969 in Hirson, France. He lives and works between France and Madagascar.
A surveyor by profession, he practiced this profession from 1987 to 1996. It is from 1996 that he decides to take the step and devote himself entirely to painting. In 1998, he received the “Young Painting” prize in Germany. His first works are focused on a neo-expressive dimension.
In the 2000s, he returned to a more realistic figurative painting, where the subject matter gained in importance. During this decade, his black and white paintings deal with cumbersome, dark, even violent subjects where the impact provoked makes the strength of the work.
At the end of the 2000’s, he engages in multiple researches and shows us a great variety in the choice of his mediums. This material he will work with flowers with sculpture and installations.
In the 2010s, the love of Art and the great masters is at the center of the subject of his work. A genre painting where many tributes to classical references appear. The treatment of the painting is done with fabric and oil paint, all in relief.
From 2015, the paintings return to abstraction, the areas of fabric become much larger. In 2017, he works with sails of dugout canoes of Vezo fishermen (nomadic Malagasy people) which are patchworks of fabrics of 2nd and 3rd hand where he will oppose abstraction and figuration that respond harmoniously. In his large abstract compositions, we find his French studio which is for him the most beautiful place in the world. He will create a series of works around this theme: Mémoire d’Atelier where he presents the two worlds in which he lives.
“My studio is a pretext for a global composition. Abstraction and drawing form a whole, it gives me an identity. The duality of the two themes figuration and abstraction must be complementary. The sails give lightness while my studio, place of creation, is more compact.”
Sébastien Bayet is an artist in love with the material who seeks to valorize these fabrics supposed to arrive at the end of life to make them reborn in unique piece of art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
2021
- Galerie Art to Be (Lille, France)
- Prieuré de Pont-Loup (Morêt sur Loing)
2020
- Château de la Tour d’Aigues (La Tour d’Aigues, France)
2019
- Galerie 3W (Reims, France)
- Collégiale Saint-Pierre-la-Cour (Le Mans, France)
2018
- Galerie Art to Be (Lille, France)
2015
- Galerie Art to Be (Lille, France)
- Galerie 3W (Reims, France)
- Galerie Rize (Amsterdam, Pays-Bas)
2014
- Galerie Rize (Knokke-Heist, Belgique)
- AD Galerie (Montpellier, France)
2013
- Galerie Art to Be (Lille, France)
- Salle de la Gare (Laon, France)
- Galerie Rize (Laren, Pays-Bas)
2012
- Galerie Anne Perré (Paris / Rouen, France)
- Galerie du Lycée Jean de la Fontaine (Château-Thierry, France)
- Galerie Rize (Naarden, Pays-Bas)
2011
- Galerie Anne Perré (Paris/Rouen, France)
- Cathédrale (Noyon, France)
- Abbaye (Essômes sur Marne, France)
- Galerie Rize (Laren, Pays-Bas)
- Musée d’Art Religieux Moderne de la basilique de Koekelberg (Bruxelles, Belgique)
2010
- Espace Saint-Jacques (Saint-Quentin, France)
- Musée Antoine Lécuyer (Saint-Quentin, France)
- Chapelle des Templiers (Laon, France)
- Cathédrale, Semaine Sainte avec Monseigneur Di Falco (Gap, France)
2009
- Institut universitaire de formation des enseignants (Laon, France)
- Cloître du Conseil Général de l’Aisne (Laon, France)
2008
- Galerie d’art contemporain au collège Jean de la Fontaine (Charleville-Mézières, France)
- Galerie d’art contemporain au collège Scamaroni (Charleville-Mézières, France)
2005
- Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués (Troyes, France)
2004
- Fondation Henri Lannoye (Bornem, Belgique)
- Galerie d’art contemporain au lycée Monge (Charleville-Mézières, France)
2002
- Quatorzième nuit culturelle (Nancy, France)
- Fondation Henri Lannoye (Bornem, Belgique)
1999
- Galerie INTRAMUROS (Charleville-Mézières, France)
- Musée de la bataille de Rocroi
1997
- Espace Dinant (Charleville-Mézières, France)
- Artiste en résidence au Lycée Saint-Rémi (Charleville-Mézières, France)
GROUP EXHIBITION HISTORY
2022
- Bill lowe Gallery (Atlanta, USA)
- 3W Gallery (reims, France)
- Galerie Hurtebize (Cannes, France)
2021
- Bill low Gallery (Atlanta, USA)
- 3W Gallery (Reims, France)
2020
- Galerie Art to Be (Lille, France)
- Galerie 3W (Reims, France)
2019
- Galerie Art to Be (Lille, France)
2017
- AD Galerie (Crans-Montana, Suisse / Montpellier, France)
- Galerie 3W (Reims, France)
2016
- Galerie Bonnet / Van der Sluis (Venise, Italie)
- Galerie 3W (Reims, France)
- AD Galerie (Crans-Montana, Suisse / Montpellier, France)
2015
- AD Galerie (Montpellier, France)
- Galerie Bonnet / Van der Sluis (Venise, Italie)
- Galerie 3W (Reims, France)
2014
- Galerie Rize (Amsterdam / Knokke-Heist, Belgique)
2013
- Cathédrale des Pays-Bas / Galerie Rize (Pays-Bas)
- AD Galerie (Montpellier, France)
2011
- Galerie Olivier Nouvellet (Paris, France)
- Trianon (Paris, France)
2010
- Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, cloître de la Bibliothèque municipale (Laon, France)
- Invitations d’artistes de la région Picardie (France)
2009
- Musée-Arsenal (Soissons, France)
- Dépôt de poudre au Lycée Claudel (Laon, France)
2008
- Vitrine du Conseil Général des Ardennes (France)
- Musée (Soissons, France)
2007
- Centre d’art contemporain Crid’art (Amnéville-les-Thermes, France)
- Invitations d’artistes de la région Picardie (France)
2006
- Musée Arthur Rimbaud (Charleville Mézières)
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS
2021
- Art’up (Lille, France)
- Modern Art (Paris, France)
- Art Montpellier (Montpellier, France)
- Southampton Arts Center + Hampton Fine Art Fair (South Hampton, USA)
2019
- Art Up ! (Galerie Art to Be / Lille, France)
- Art Elysées (Galerie Art to Be / Paris, France)
2018
- Art Up ! (Galerie Art to Be / Lille, France)
- Art Paris Art Fair (Galerie Art to Be / Paris, France)
- Art Elysées (Galerie Art to Be / Paris, France)
2017
- Mettez-vous en forme ! (Galerie Art to Be / Lille, France)
- Art Paris Art Fair (Galerie Art to Be/ Paris, France)
- Art Elysées (Galerie Art to Be/ Paris, France)
2016
- Art Up ! (Galerie Art to Be / Lille, France)
2015
- Art Up ! (Galerie Art to Be, AD Galerie / Lille, France)
- St-Art (Galerie Art to Be, AD Galerie/ Strasbourg, France)
2014
- Lille Art Fair (Galerie Art to Be, AD Galerie / Lille, France)
- St-Art (Galerie Art to Be, AD Galerie/ Strasbourg, France)
2013
- Raw Art Fair (Galerie Rize / Rotterdam, Pays-Bas)
- Art Warehouse (Galerie Rize / Rotterdam, Pays-Bas)
- Art Laren (Galerie Rize / Laren, Pays-Bas)
- Foire d’art de Lille (AD Galerie / Lille, France)
- St-Art (Art to Be Gallery, AD Galerie, Anne Perré Galerie / Strasbourg, France)
2012
- Raw Art Fair (Galerie Rize / Rotterdam, Pays-Bas)
- Lille Art Fair (Galerie Rize / Lille, France)
2011
- Art Paris Art Fair (Galerie Anne Perré / Paris, France)
2002
- Lineart (Galerie Sculpturama / Gand, Belgique)
