artist/ Rosenthal
FRANCE
Clément Rosenthal’s painting is the result of a long process that is the sum of research on color mixing and the progressive superposition of layers of paint that are sometimes opaque and rich in texture, sometimes fluid and translucent. This Modus Operandi is similar to Japanese lacquering techniques: successive layers of paint are applied and the higher the number of layers, the deeper and denser the rendering.
He explores the question of murality from the angle of abstraction. The subtlety of colors, the work on textures and the superpositions of colors in a play of transparencies is difficult to grasp through the digital reproduction of his works. On some canvases, subtle images appear and rub shoulders with the work on the material in a dialogue rich in emotions and creating meaning. These games of oppositions bring the viewer into an experience that vacillates between attraction and repulsion. His work is an encounter and an invitation to the perception of reality, from the infra-thin to the globality of the image.
His work is the expression of a cultivated man nourished by music, song, literature and decorative arts where influences from different countries and different eras meet and intersect.
Clément Rosenthal grew up in a family of artists. The father, Manuel Rosenthal, a former student of Maurice Ravel, is a great conductor. His mother, a lyric singer, passed on to him her love for music and the arts.
His grandmother introduced him to drawing very early on. She also passed on to him the passion for Asian art that she shared with her husband Maurice Pillard Verneuil (Art Nouveau decorative artist and art historian). He particularly drew his inspiration from the forms of nature, plants and animals and was particularly interested in Japanese art. We will find in the work of Clément Rosenthal the same attraction for the representation of the forms of nature and the same interest in Asian art.
He followed his father throughout Europe, visiting museums and discovering the masters of Flemish painting and German medieval art throughout his childhood.
The years of his youth were devoted to the study of painting and drawing.
Attending the free workshops of the Paris art academies, he learned academic drawing from live models. His regular visits to the plant garden forged his formal learning of the plant world which would never leave him.
He then briefly joined the Penninghen School and then the Beaux-Arts in Paris.
With a technical and cultural background, his work transcends the medium to put it at the service of a painting where Western and Far Eastern art, abstraction and figuration intersect.
Since 1983, he has worked with various gallery owners and professionals in the artistic sector in France and abroad. He participates in several Contemporary Art fairs: FIAC, Basel, Miami, New York, Palm Beach. The Center Georges Pompidou and various FRACs acquired several of his works.
Auctions by auction houses such as Millon Brussels, Sotheby’s New York, Sotheby’s London have contributed to establishing its international rating.
He explores the question of murality from the angle of abstraction. The subtlety of colors, the work on textures and the superpositions of colors in a play of transparencies is difficult to grasp through the digital reproduction of his works. On some canvases, subtle images appear and rub shoulders with the work on the material in a dialogue rich in emotions and creating meaning. These games of oppositions bring the viewer into an experience that vacillates between attraction and repulsion. His work is an encounter and an invitation to the perception of reality, from the infra-thin to the globality of the image.
His work, the expression of a cultivated man nourished by music, song, literature and decorative arts where influences from different countries and different eras meet and intersect
Expositions personnelles
2024 : Espace St Michel, HVMC Monte Carlo
2022 : Visus Gallery, Knokke (Belgique)
2011-2015 : Galerie Melki – Paris
2001 : Galerie Webster Fine Art, Paris
2000 : Fondation d’Entreprise COPRIM, galerie Webster Fine Art, Paris
1997 : Galerie Art et Patrimoine, Paris Galerie de l’Europe, Paris
1988 : Galerie Leif Stahle, Paris
1985 : Galerie Grinfeder, Paris
1984 : Galerie Verrière, Lyon
Expositions collectives & foires d’art
2000 : Denise Cadé Gallery, New York, USA
Fondation d’Entreprise COPRIM, Paris
1997 : Focus Nine Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne
Biennale d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris
Galerie de l’Europe, Paris
1996 : Fondation d’Entreprise COPRIM, Paris
Salon de Montrouge, Paris
Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris (Collection FRAC Ile-de-France)
1992 : Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada (Collection FRAC Ile-de-France)
1991 : Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Collection BNP)
1987 : Galerie Leif Stahle, Paris
1985 : Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris (Galerie Verrière, Lyon) Musée d’Art Contemporain de Romans (Collection FRAC Rhône Alpes)
1984 : Foire d’Art Contemporain de Bâle, Suisse (Galerie Verrière, Lyon) Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris (Galerie Verrière, Lyon)
1983 : Galerie Verrière, Lyon Foire d’Art Contemporain de Bâle, Suisse (Galerie Verrière, Lyon)
Collections
Centre d’Art Contemporain Georges Pompidou, PARIS
Collection MARCO ORLER INTERNATIONAL GALLERY
Fondation d’Art Contemporain COPRIM
FRAC Ile de France – FRAC Rhône Alpes
Foires
Foire d’Art Contemporain de Bâle, FIAC, Miami Art Basel Week, New York Armory Park Avenue, Palm Beach Art Show, Daegu Art Fair (Corée du sud), Unfair Milano
