B I O G R A P H I E
Training :
Cours Florent
Diplômé en 2013, DNSAP, Ecole des Beaux de Paris
Exhibitions :
2015 : Etre Vénus, Galerie Géraldine Banier
2014 : Aphrodisia, Galerie Géraldine Banier
Curator : Sinziani Ravini
Clovis Petit is 38 years old, he was born on October 25, 1984 in Paris where he still lives in the 13th district.
After studying theater at the Cours Florent, he obtained the DNSAP of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2013, participated in two group exhibitions at the gallery Geraldine Banier in 2014 (Aphrodisia) and 2015 (Etre Vénus) in which he presented works of collage and poetry.
The following years will see him try his hand at sign language, play in a video clip for a band that no longer exists, play music in various formations and work for his art school teacher, Anne Rochette. Alongside all of this, it was in late 2017 that he finally rededicated himself to his primordial and deep passion, toys, characters, figurines, games.
While exploring the manufacture of marble runners and kalimbas, scouring fablabs to discover laser cutting, learning illustrator thanks to a Brazilian friend, he thus develops a first model of figurine: a wooden robot to assemble yourself and which is called KIT.
From this model, Clovis creates unique and colorful characters that summon the child in us, the desire to play, to forget the adult world, to use these figurines for an obvious catharsis.
Gathered in teams, they constitute the installation currently presented at the gallery.