Xavier Veilhan

© Photo credit: Tony Metaxas

© Photo credit: Tony Metaxas

Xavier Veilhan’s back and forth in time is related to the origins of modernity, in constant effort to update this period with nowadays tools. It is a new approach of an archeology of the modern in order to imagine possible evolutions and to make the present more understandable. Hence his interest in Italian Futurism, evoked in Vibration, a life-size sculpture of a horse and its cart in shimmering, frozen motion forms. The artist refers also in an anachronistic way to urban transportation development. What interests Veilhan here is the disturbance of the eye, the invention of a new vision of sculpture and captivation of the viewer.

Xavier Veilhan

Born in 1963 in Lyon, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.

Renowned artist Xavier Veilhan describes himself as a visual artist, using the same space for sculpture, painting and photography. As an artist and engineer, Veilhan asserts himself as a formidable inventor of forms and behaviors and is also well known for his public sculptures such as a gray monster in Tours (2006), a blue lion in Bordeaux, a bear, penguins and other characters in Lyon (2006).

Recent Solo Shows:
2009: Veilhan Versailles, Château de Versailles, Versailles, France; Sophie, work in situ, for the Costes Restaurant L’Arbuci, Paris, France.2008: Furtivo, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris / Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Torino. 2007: Metric, Gering & López Gallery, New York (USA); Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden; Artwork for Air’s last album, Pocket Symphony (EMI).