Michel Trinquier (born 12 October 1931, in
Avignon
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) is a
French painter.
Biography
He starts painting in studying after school at "collège Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in Avignon and becomes member of the "
Groupe de l'Atelier".
He is also found of
paleontology
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.
In the 1960s he discovers
Belle-Ile, an island in the Atlantic ocean and he starts to work through "collages" including sand, ropes or shellfish in his paintings.
In 1961 he receives the "Grand prix de peinture du festival d'art dramatique d'Avignon" for a painting now in
musée Calvet
Mus or MUS may refer to:
Abbreviations
* MUS, the NATO country code for Mauritius
* MUS, the IATA airport code for Minami Torishima Airport
* MUS, abbreviation for the Centre for Modern Urban Studies on Campus The Hague, Leiden University, Neth ...
in Avignon.
Main exhibitions
*1973 : Galerie Barbizon,
rue des Saint-Pères in
Paris
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*1973 : Galerie Transposition,
boulevard Raspail in
Paris
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*1987 : Salon international d'art contemporain in
Toulouse
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*1992 : Galerie Bonias in
L'Isle-sur-Sorgue
*1993 :
fondation Vasarely
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History
Fondation Vasarely was established in 1966 by Victor Vasarely, aiming to build a centre "to promote his ideas of 'art for all' and of th ...
in
château de Gordes
*1995 : Galerie Vincente Beneat in
Barcelona
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*2017 : Palais des évêques de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
*2021 : Atelier-galerie Valérie Gautier, Sauzon
Books
Michel Trinquier has illustrated a poetry book together with
Eugène Baboulène,
Pierre Cayol,
Hervé Di Rosa and
Pierre François
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, les 81 poèmes de Claude Garcia-Forner, ''Rayon Bleu''
Notes and references
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1931 births
Living people
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
21st-century French painters
French male painters
Modern painters