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, 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 and ...

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

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. Since 2008 he is the director of XiYiTang in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

, 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 Art Press. 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 Aperto ’93 is the title of an exhibition of contemporary art conceived by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, and organized by Helena Kontova for the XLV edition of the Venice Biennale, directed by Achille Bonito Oliva in 1993. It reprised ...

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

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

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. 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