Pierre Lamalattie (born 1956 in

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. He lives and works in

Early life

Although he learnt painting with grandmother Marguerite Juille and the artist Léo Lotz, he studied science. In 1975, he entered the Institut national agronomique Paris Grignon. He painted there regularly and created with some friends the review ''Karamazov'' in 1977. He graduated in 1980 with two specialities:

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Career

After one year in Algeria as a teacher, he began an engineering career at the

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, where he was in charge of an economic review. He became a mediator in industrial restructuring before teaching human resources and social issues at the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon and at the

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. In 1995, he began moving from engineering to painting and began to exhibit one year later. He focused on daily life of contemporaneous men and women (vicissitudes of sexuality, couples in crisis) and particularly, life at work. He is interested in the world of executives and in the weight of managerial speeches. In 2008, he began a series of imaginary portraits, dubbed “

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”, mixing painting and inscriptions gthat point out a singularity or sum up a life in a few words. He wrote his first novel in 2011, ''121 curriculum vitae pour un tombeau'', winning a prize at the Festival of The First Novel in Laval, and two years later, ''Précipitation en milieu acide''. His literary texts are a continuation of his reflections about alienation at work. Lamalattie contributes to magazines (''

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'', ''Causeur'', ''Écritique'', etc.). His articles deal with periods of art history such as

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and art criticism.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

* 1996: Galerie Sylvie Guimiot, Paris * 1997: Galerie Elian Lizart, Brussxels * 1999: Galerie de Passy, Paris * 2003: Centre culturel St-Honoré, Paris * 2004: Siège de la Société Générale, Paris * 2006: Galerie Serpentine, Paris * 2007: Galerie Jamault, Paris. Galerie Art actuel, Paris * 2008: Socles et cimaises, Nancy * 2009: Chapelle Saint-Libéral, Brive * 2011: ''Peindre des vies toutes entières'', galerie Alain Blondel, Paris * 2014: Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris

Collective exhibitions

* 1997, 1998: May Salon, Paris * 2005, 2008 and 2009: Nude Art, Paris * 2007, 2008 and 2009: MAC 2000, Paris * 2009 : Artscènes / Galerie FHM, Boulogne * 2010: Copart, Révigny-sur-Ornain * 2016 : « Still life – Style of life », Jean-Marie Oger, Paris

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Early life

Career

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Collective exhibitions

See also

Bibliography

Novels

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