Cl\u00e9ment 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.
\nHe 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.
\nHis 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.<\/p>\n
Cl\u00e9ment 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.
\nHis 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 Cl\u00e9ment Rosenthal the same attraction for the representation of the forms of nature and the same interest in Asian art.
\nHe followed his father throughout Europe, visiting museums and discovering the masters of Flemish painting and German medieval art throughout his childhood.
\nThe years of his youth were devoted to the study of painting and drawing.
\nAttending 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.
\nHe then briefly joined the Penninghen School and then the Beaux-Arts in Paris.
\nWith 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.
\nSince 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.
\nAuctions by auction houses such as Millon Brussels, Sotheby\u2019s New York, Sotheby\u2019s London have contributed to establishing its international rating.<\/p>\n
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.
\nHis 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<\/p>\n
Expositions personnelles
\n2024 : Espace St Michel, HVMC Monte Carlo
\n2022 : Visus Gallery, Knokke (Belgique)
\n2011-2015 : Galerie Melki – Paris
\n2001 : Galerie Webster Fine Art, Paris
\n2000 : Fondation d\u2019Entreprise COPRIM, galerie Webster Fine Art, Paris
\n1997 : Galerie Art et Patrimoine, Paris Galerie de l\u2019Europe, Paris
\n1988 : Galerie Leif Stahle, Paris
\n1985 : Galerie Grinfeder, Paris
\n1984 : Galerie Verri\u00e8re, Lyon
\nExpositions collectives & foires d\u2019art
\n2000 : Denise Cad\u00e9 Gallery, New York, USA
\nFondation d\u2019Entreprise COPRIM, Paris
\n1997 : Focus Nine Gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne
\nBiennale d\u2019Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris
\nGalerie de l\u2019Europe, Paris
\n1996 : Fondation d\u2019Entreprise COPRIM, Paris
\nSalon de Montrouge, Paris
\nCouvent des Cordeliers, Paris (Collection FRAC Ile-de-France)
\n1992 : Centre International d\u2019Art Contemporain de Montr\u00e9al, Canada (Collection FRAC Ile-de-France)
\n1991 : Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Collection BNP)
\n1987 : Galerie Leif Stahle, Paris
\n1985 : Foire Internationale d\u2019Art Contemporain, Paris (Galerie Verri\u00e8re, Lyon) Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Contemporain de Romans (Collection FRAC Rh\u00f4ne Alpes)
\n1984 : Foire d\u2019Art Contemporain de B\u00e2le, Suisse (Galerie Verri\u00e8re, Lyon) Foire Internationale d\u2019Art Contemporain, Paris (Galerie Verri\u00e8re, Lyon)
\n1983 : Galerie Verri\u00e8re, Lyon Foire d\u2019Art Contemporain de B\u00e2le, Suisse (Galerie Verri\u00e8re, Lyon) <\/p>\n
Collections
\nCentre d\u2019Art Contemporain Georges Pompidou, PARIS
\nCollection MARCO ORLER INTERNATIONAL GALLERY
\nFondation d\u2019Art Contemporain COPRIM
\nFRAC Ile de France – FRAC Rh\u00f4ne Alpes
\nFoires
\nFoire d\u2019Art Contemporain de B\u00e2le, FIAC, Miami Art Basel Week, New York Armory Park Avenue, Palm Beach Art Show, Daegu Art Fair (Cor\u00e9e du sud), Unfair Milano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":96555,"template":"","taxo_year_participe":[136],"class_list":["post-90696","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n