Morgan Courtois
Morgan Courtois was born in 1988 in Abbeville, (FR), he lives and works in Paris (FR)
To explain his work, he refers to the movie making-of Passion of Jean-Luc Godard where he explain that he built this movie from a picture : a woman who comes out a car with a lily of the valley bouquet. Felini meant a lot as well because Morgan Courtois first wanted to be in the movie business.
”For the last things I did in Hamburg : there was two lamps which are usually used in horticulture in order to recreate a light spectrum specific to each seasons. A wintery for the growing period and heatwave for the blossoming. The mobile was composed by gelatin as well as worn ready-made. The wintery is called Berezina, named in reference to the battle and to a funny anecdote saying how the napoleonic troops ended up carrying the sumptuous dresses from their several looting to keep them warm from the russian cold. I imagined what could of been the elements of this procession. The summery mobile foot (Snuck) came the day before my departure. It’s a failure that I wound up by appreciate. It is painting with food coloring bought in the Hamburg indian neighborhood (Steindamm), the winter lamp pot also comes from this neighborhood which was next to my studio. We ended up by listening indian music, very stimulating to work.”
Morgan Courtois is currently obsessed by Christina dance in Exotica of Atom Egoyan and he is thinking about producing a sculpture on Leonard Cohen song’s Everybody Knows inspired from this dance. Meanwhile he’s making paintings inspired by the Warburg method with Berezina illustrations, paintings of Marco Polo’s Livre des merveilles, medieval print, shots of Aguirre et la colère de dieu movie…. and he’s thinking a lot about the raft slow degradation during the movie like a background image for the exhibition in october.
After graduating from the Valenciennes Beaux-Arts, Morgan Courtois majored in the Lyon ENSBA where he obtain the Paris Award. In 2014 he founded ”Pauline Perplexe” with Kevin Bogey, Florent Dégé and Sarah Holveck : a suburb pavillon both studio and exhibition space. He recently participated to Heartbreak hotel, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg; to Liste, Bâle with Balice Hertling, Les trépignements du Fakir, Parc Saint Léger off-site, Pougues les Eaux ; Sweating as Distribution, Treize, Paris; Faire des fleurs, Florence Loewy, Paris; Family Matters, De la Charge, Bruxelles. He is currently preparing an exhibition with Sylvie Auvray to Balice Hertling, New York.
