FABRICE AINAUT
ABOUT
"Trained in sculpture and music, I left formal education at sixteen for West Africa, where I lived for five years in contact with traditional artistic practices and animist thought. Back in Paris, my collaborations with Carmelo Arden Quin and then Julio Le Parc led me from geometric abstraction to kinetic-luminous art. Today I bring robotics, programming and light to the heart of my sculptures and reliefs, pursuing a dialogue between matter, energy and perception."
CRITICAL TEXTS
"Fabrice Ainaut, a devoted member of my studio for thirteen years, has shaped an impressive range of skills over time. […] Fabrice is far more than an assistant: he is above all an accomplished visual artist. His trajectory places him at the heart of the contemporary art scene. […] His aesthetic approaches, at once sensitive and rigorous, reveal a boundless intellectual curiosity."
JULIO LE PARC — CACHAN, MARCH 2024
"Belonging to the latest generations to have come to constructed art, Fabrice Ainaut develops in his own way the advances of this physical expression with its manifold combinatorics […]. In short, the work of Fabrice Ainaut — at once restless and coherent — offers more than promise. It is ready for tomorrow."
GÉRARD XURIGUERA — PARIS, JUNE 2016
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"Through complex volumes […] he finds new paths that give shadow and light the space they need to engage in their confrontations, in a dialectic that remains forever unpredictable."
FERNAND H. FOURNIER — PARIS, APRIL 2013
"Ainaut's work, made in the lineage of Madí principles, has a great harmonious originality and is carried out with extreme rigour. May Ainaut continue his research and make his art the purpose of his life."
CARMELO ARDEN QUIN — PARIS, JANUARY 2010
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2020 — « Au rythme des contrastes », Château des Tourelles, France
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2019 — Viktoria's Gallery, Slovakia
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2018 — Galerie Závodný, Czech Republic
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2018 — "Été concret", Institut français de Bratislava, Slovakia
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2018 — Galerie La Ligne, Zurich, Switzerland
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2016 — Galerie 55 Bellechasse, Paris
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2010 — Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS — SELECTION
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2026 — « Spectral », Metahaus, Paris
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2026 — « 50th anniversary of the Musée en Herbe », Paris
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2025 — « Hidden Memories », Galerie Závodný, Czech Republic
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2022 — Edition Fanal, « Transparence Volume », Basel, Switzerland
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2022 — Nuit blanche, Paris, France
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2020 — Musée Lapidarium , « Cinétique II », Novigrad, Croatia
// ART FAIRS & SALONS
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2025 — One Masters Monaco, Monte-Carlo
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2017-2019 — Art Basel, Atelier-Éditions Fanal
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2017-2019 — Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie La Ligne
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Since 2011 — Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
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2011-2017 — Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais
// PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & AWARDS
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The Dentsu Aegis Network Collection, Toronto
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Mobil Madi Muzeum, Budapest
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Frank Popper Contemporary Art Centre
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Satoru Sato Museum, Japan
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2019, Taylor Foundation Prize, Réalités Nouvelles
DOCUMENTARY PORTRAIT
« Fabrice Ainaut, Objet lumino-cinétique programmé »,
a 12-minute film by Gilles Thomat.
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2023 9th MIFAC, Angoulême, France
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2023 Le champ des possibles — Algiers Cinematheque
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2023 Art Montpellier, France
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2022 Institut catholique de Toulouse, France