Paul Devautour is a French artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Shanghai.

Life and career

In collaboration with Yoon Ja Choi he created in 1985 the Collection Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour. They conceived works and exhibitions until 2004 under the names of Buchal et Clavel, Cercle Ramo Nash, Gladys Clover, J. Duplo, Manuel Ismora, Art Keller, Claude Lantier, Alexandre Lenoir, Martin Tupper and David Vincent. Some of their collected pieces are kept at the

MAMCO The MAMCO () is the contemporary art museum of Geneva, which opened in 1994. The building is a former factory building, with 3000 m2 of exhibition space, it is the largest contemporary art museum of Switzerland. From 1994 to 2015, MAMCO was dire ...

in Geneva. Others are part of the Frac Poitou-Charentes collection (registered under the pseudonym Martin Tupper), the Villeurbanne Institut d'Art Contemporain collection, the

Centre national des arts plastiques The Centre national des arts plastiques (National Centre for Visual Arts, or CNAP) is a French institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Culture and Communication that promotes creation of visual arts. It provides assistance to artists ...

collection. From 2004 to 2008, Paul Devautour held the position of dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de

Bourges Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...

. Since 2008 he is the director of XiYiTang in

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

, an exchange platform for art school students and a residency program for young artists. He created with Xia Yilan DeYi Studio. Their manifesto was published in 2015 in

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. He opened in 2011 in a Shanghai market an independent art space named Bazaar Compatible Program.

Selected exhibitions

* ''Mobiles d'emprunt'', Paris, Sylvana Lorenz Gallery (1989) * ''Objectif Documenta'', Kiel, Sfeir-Semler Gallery (1991) * Générique vers une solidarité générationnelle, Meymac, CAC (1992) * Aperto '93,

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), ...

(1993) * ''21st National and International Studio Artists Exhibition'', New York,

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 2201 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

(1997) * ''Martin Tupper,'' Angoulême, Frac Poitou-Charentes, (2006) * ''DeYi Studio Shanghai Paul Devautour, œuvres tardives'', Quimper, Le Quartier (2014)

References

External links

Collection Yoon-ja & Paul Devautour at the MAMCO

in Multitudes no. 57 {{DEFAULTSORT:Devautour, Paul Living people French artists French contemporary artists 1958 births École des Beaux-Arts alumni