Ultracolor
My works are monochromes. Confusion. In spite of appearances, one should be careful, considering them rapidly, summarily, as monochromes would be restrictive, null and void.
Behind a one-piece, visibly one-colored surface, a very complexly build polychromy is hiding and appears only, slowly, with the light. One should be patient.
Versatile colors woo blacks. Furtive brightness rud shoulders with abysses.
My preoccupations are haunted by the ideas of mutation, translation, transfiguration of color. The black-purple-reds, the purple-black-greens, the carmine-black-purples maybe turning into random definitions of one color.
Ultracolour.
Paul Raguenes.
Exhibitions
2016
La villa Arson – Nice – F –(g)
IS projectspace anniversary – Leiden – NL – (g)
Centre d’art la halle des bouchers – Vienne- F – (g)
2015
L’assaut de la menuiserie – Saint-Etienne – F – (g)
La station - Nice – F –(g)
2014
Paris concret – Paris -F – (g)
Galerie van den Berge – Goes – NL – (g)
2013
Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris –F- (g)
Galerie van den Berge – Goes- NL – (g)
ABC contemporary – 30x30- Zurich – CH- (g)
2012
CCNOA 30X30 collection - Moinsun - Paris - F - (g)
Factory 49 - Sydney -Aus- (p)
La Bf15 - & -Duo show with Iain Baxter - Lyon -F
Musée Paul Dini - Villefranche/Saône - F - (g)
Colorific-School of arts of Braine-l'alleud (curated by Petra Bungert) - B - (g)
Paris Concret - Paris - F - (g)
Factory 49 - Sydney - Aus -(g)
2011
SNO Centre - Sydney - AUS - (g)
Slick 11 - Galerie Bertrand Grimont- Paris- F - (g)
Galerie Van den Berge - Goes -NL - (p)
Factory 49 - Sydney - AUS - (g)
Villa Delaporte - Casablanca - MC - (g)
Galerie José Martinez - Lyon - F - (g)
Galerie Van den Berge - Goes - NL - (g)
La lune en parachute - Epinal - F - (g)
Back to Basics - Pont de Claix - F- (g)
Créa Factory - Chromotube- Pont Evêque - F -(p)
2010
Galerie Van den Berge - Goes - NL - (g)
ArtParis - Vanessa Suchar - Paris - F - (g)
Galerie Guy Bärtschi - Geneva - CH - (g)
ArtAmsterdam - Galerie Van den Berge - NL - (g)
Galerie Bertrand Grimont - Paris - F - (g)
Galerie José Matinez - Lyon - F - (g)
2009
Supervues - Vaison-la-Romaine - F - (p)
Nanky de Vreeze Project - Middelburg - NL - (g)
Chapelle de la visitation - Condrieu - F - (p)
Paris Concret - Paris - F - (g)
Galerie Helene Lamarque - Miami - USA- (g)
Galerie Roger Katwijk - Amsterdam - NL - (g)
ArtAmsterdam - Galerie Roger Katwijk - NL - (g)
Galerie José Martinez - Lyon - F - (g)
2008
Galerie José Martinez - Lyon - F - ( p)
SLICK 08 - Galerie Vanessa Suchar - Paris - F - (g)
GKG Bonn - Non-objective art - Bonn - D - (g)
Mews42/Vanessa Suchar - London confidencial - London - GB (g)
Art Paris - Vanessa Suchar - Paris - F (g)
BKHF Gallery - Miami - USA (g)
Galerie Roger Katwijk - Amsterdam - NL (g)
2007
ArtRotterdam - Le Besset/ Parc de sculptures - NL - (p)
Galerie Guy Bärtschi - Geneva - CH - (g)
Vanessa Suchar/ Le salon for art collectors - Paris - F - (g)
ArtAmsterdam - Galerie Krijger+Katwijk - Amsterdam - NL - (g)
- Le Besset / Parc de sculptures - St Jaure d'Andaure - F - (g)
Le Besset / Parc de sculptures - St Jaure d'Andaure - F - (g)
Galerie Krijger+Katwijk - Amsterdam - NL - (g)
Galerie Roger Katwijk - Amsterdam - NL - ( With Johannes Girardoni)
SLICK 07 - MEWS42/Vanessa Suchar - Paris - F - (g)
Paul Dini Museum - Villefranche/ Saone - F - (g)
Eyestorm Gallery - London - GB - ( with Tom Fecht & Linda Karshan)
MEWS42/ Vanessa Suchar - London - GB - ( with Cedric Christie)
2006
Galerie Guy Bärtschi - Geneva - CH - (p)
Bridge art fair - Vanessa Suchar/Le salon for Art collectors - Miami - USA - (g)
Lincart - San Francisco - USA - (g)
Slick 01 - Vanessa Suchar/ Le salon for art collectors - Paris - F - (g)
ART(212) - Vanessa Suchar/ Le salon for art colectors - New York - USA - (g)
Vanessa Suchar/ le salon for art collectors - London - GB - (g)
Galerie Lausberg - Dusseldorf - D - (g)
Galerie Lukas Feichtner- Vienna- A- (g)
Galerie Metropolis- Lyon- F- (g)
ArtRotterdam- Le Besset/ Parc de sculptures- NL- (g)
Vanessa suchar/ le salon for art collectors- London- GB- (g)
Le Besset/Parc de sculptures- St Jaure d' Andaure- F- (g)
Kunstrai - ArtAmsterdam - Galerie Krijger+Katwijk - Amsterdam - NL - (g)
Galerie Schmitt - Insbruck-Hall - A - (g)
Palmbeach 3- Auden Galerie+Globalartaffairs- USA- (g)
2005
Ludwig Museum- Koblenz- D- (g)
Paul Dini Museum- Villefranche/Soane- F- (g)
Scope Miami- Vanessa Suchar/ Le salon for art collectors- USA- (p)
Galerie Metropolis- Lyon- F- (g)
PanAmsterdam- galerie Krijger+katwijk- Amsterdam- NL- (g)
Kunstzurich- Auden Galerie+ Globbalartsaffairs- Zurich- CH- (g)
La lune en parachute- Centre d' Art- Epinal- F- (p)
Le salon for Art Collectors- Vanessa Suchar- Paris- F- (g)
Kunstrai- Galerie Krijger+Katwijk- Amsterdam- NL- (g)
Le Besset- St Jaure d' Andaure- F- (g)
Galerie Lausberg-Dusseldorf- D- (g)
ArtFrankfurt- Globalartaffairs- NY- (g)
2004
ArtRotterdam- Le Besset- NL- (g)
In the Mood for light- Marconi- Brussels- B- (g)
Red- Galerie Pimm Van Der Donk- Hamburg- D- (g)
ArtFrankfurt- Globalartaffairs- NY- D- (g)
Galerie BMG- Brussels- B-(p)
Galerie Krijger+Katwijk- Amsterdam- NL- (g)
Galerie Pimm Van Der Donk- Hamburg- D- (p)
galerie Arti Capelli- St Hertorenbosch- NL- (g)
2003
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze- Amsterdam- NL- (p)
Galerie BMG- Brussels- B- (g)
Le Besset- St Jaure d' Andaure- F- (g)
Scope Miami- Le salon for Art Collectors- Vanessa Suchar- USA- (g)
ArtRotterdam- Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- NL- (g)
Kunstrai- Galerie Nanky de Vreeze- Le Besset- NL- (g)
HVC Brugmann- Brussels- B- (g)
Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- F- (p)
2002
ArtBrussels- Galerie Guy Bartschi- Geneva- B- (p)
Kunstrai- Galerie Nanky de Vreeze- NL- (g)
ArtRotterdam- Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- NL- (g)
Galerie BMG- Brussels- B- (g)
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze- Amsterdam- NL- (g)
Le salon for Art Collectors- Vanessa Suchar- London- GB- (g)
Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- F- (p)
2001
Artissima Turino- Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- I- (g)
Musée Paul Dini- Villefranche/soane- F- (g)
Galerie Akié Arichi- Paris- F- (p)
ArtParis- Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- F- (g)
Salon de Mars- Genève- Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- CH- (g)
Galerie Guy Bartschi- Geneva- CH- (g)
2000
ArtParis- Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- F- (g)
Galerie Guy Bartschi- Geneva- CH- (g)
1999
Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- F- (p)
Galerie Uta Goppelsroder- Bretten- D- (g)
Galerie Olivier Houg- Lyon- F- (g)
1998
Musée Hébert- Grenoble- F- (g)
Galerie Guy Bartschi- Geneva- CH (g)
1997
Centro d'Arte La Pescaoila- Pisa- I- (g)
Galerie Nelly L' Eplattenier- Lausanne- CH- (p)
Galerie Guy Bartschi- Geneva- CH- (g)
1996
Galerie du Manoir- La Chaux de Fonds- CH- (p)
Galerie Guy Bartschi- Geneva- CH- (g)
Le gymnase- La Chaux de Fonds- CH- (p)
1995
Galerie Guy Bartschi- Geneva- CH- (g)
CNIT- Essec- Paris- (p)
Galerie Patrick Gaultier- Quimper- F (p)
LeoTony Gallery- New-York- USA- (g)
1994
LeoTony Gallery- New-York- USA- (p)
MAD- Lausanne- CH- (p)
L'AAG- St Cannat- F- (g)
Collections
Musée Paul Dini- Villefranche/soane
Akzo Nobel Foundation. Amsterdam
Artothèque de Lyon.
Artothèque de Villeurbanne.
Artothèque d' Annecy.
Banque Insinger de Beaufort. Den Haag
Deltaairline
InterAmericandevelopment Bank. Chicago
City of Villeurbanne.
College of Vienne.
City of Lyon.
Lyonnaise de Banque.
Rhone-Poulenc.
De Sede AG. Zurich
(p) One man show. (g) Group shows.