Xavier Veihan

Artist description

With works that express his conception of a world in perpetual motion on which he hopes to have "a small influence", Xavier Veilhan is today considered the most gifted French artist of his generation.
Born in Lyon in 1963, the visual artist, who lives and works in Paris, develops an original career using multiple forms such as painting and sculpture, video and photography. Fascinated by the inventions of our century, passionate about contemporary physics, he revisits modernity by creating works sometimes described as abstract but which cannot go unnoticed.
After solid training in France and a detour to Berlin in the field of decorative and plastic arts, Xavier Veilhan stands out with his stylized and colorful sculptures - animals or human bodies - imagined by scanner before being transformed into 3D. This work is carried out within the Atelier, a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory, a place for confrontation of ideas and shared creations by a dozen cheerful collaborators.

Moreover, interested in these "wandering spaces" such as parks, gardens, or squares, Xavier Veilhan installs his work in these spaces, inviting the passerby to become the actor-spectator of works found at the Palace of Versailles or in public places, in Strasbourg, Tours, Lille, or Lausanne. We find the artist's passions for speed, sound, and light associated, not without poetry, with industry, technology, and art.
In addition to his participation in numerous solo and group exhibitions, in Shanghai, New York, or Kiev, Xavier Veilhan was chosen in 2015 as the French representative at the 57th Venice Biennale where he transformed his country's pavilion into a musical device where musicians from around the world performed freely.
This demonstrates the eclecticism of an artist particularly open to today's world, offering a thousand reasons for creativity in the most diverse fields of art. As a critic says: "Constructor of the visible, revealer of the invisible, Xavier Veilhan invents parallel worlds that hesitate between the familiar and the strange."