NICOLAS SANHES
BIO
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Born in 1965 in Rodez, France.
Lives and works in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
Nicolas Sanhes' sculptures are always at the hinge between monumentality and lightness, inertia and movement, mathematical rigor and creative freedom. Over the years, these modular forms have known all kinds of systems, materials and dimensions, but they constantly tend towards more radicalism and stripping back to the point of withdrawing from any relation to reality. In its steel colossi hides an order that is both simple and deceptive: subtly entangled rings with broken lines, the whole of which rests on three tiny points. These monumental structures embrace space without dominating it and convert the void into material in its own right. A void to which Nicolas Sanhes confers colors through a pictorial production that nourishes his sculptural creation and offers him a new perspective and understanding.
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EDUCATION
1984
École des Beaux-Arts de Perpignan, France
SOLO SHOWS
2021
Colors of the wind, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2019
Respiration, Galerie Réplique, Rodez, France
2016
D’acier et d’azur, Musée Soulages, Rodez, France
Une géométrie incidente, Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris, France
2014
Carte blanche, Fondation Poppy et Pierre Salinger, Le Thor, France
2012
Traverser le visible, Galerie de l’Aquarium, Valenciennes, France
Les monumentales d’Arcachon, France
Château de Nogent-le-Roi, France
2011
La sculpture et la ville, Musée de la Ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
2007
Jardin du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, France
2004
Commanderie des Templiers, Elancourt, France
GROUP SHOWS
2019
Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, France
2018
Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, France
2017
Visual Dialogs, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2015
Archi-sculpture, Fondation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
France
Musée des Beaux-arts Denys-Puech, Rodez France
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PRIVATE COLLECTION
Collection d'art Societe Général, Puteaux France
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2019
Éco-quartier de Combarel, Ville de Rodez, France
2013
Place Cardon, Ville de Valenciennes, France
2006
Place de la Paix, Ville de Trappes, France
2003
Avenue des Noës, Ville de La Verrière, France
2000
Orly Parc, Ville de La Verrière, France
EDITIONS
2015
Poitevin Jean-Louis (préface de Decron Benoît), Nicolas Sanhes. Une géométrie incidente, Paris, Archibooks + Sautereau Éditeur
2012
Nicolas Sanhes : Traverser le visible, Catalogue d’exposition, Galerie de l’Aquarium
2011
Coeur d'acier, Catalogue de résidence
2010
L'art dans les villes nouvelles, Éditions Artlys
2008
Nicolas Sanhes, Arts Itinérances
Sculpter la ville, Éditions AREA
1995
Nicolas Sanhes, Éditions Musée Denys Puech
PRESS
2020
L’Art-vues, «Nicolas Sanhes expose ses oeuvres monumentales au domaine de La Mouche»
2014
Connaissance des arts, « Nicolas Sanhes : géométries d’acier », Myriam Boutoulle