Inspired by the golden age of still life in the 16th and 17th centuries, Thierry Genay photographs everyday objects like a cabinet of curiosities.
Thierry Genay's photography is heir to a style of painting which, in the absence of noble and sublime motifs, is nourished by a perception of everyday life. His photographic compositions are part of this ever-renewed history of still life, itself a mirror of lifestyles, of a daily reality which is thus illustrated, humanistic or spiritual, of a reflection on the harmony of nature, but always an echo of the intimate.
His work is a cabinet of curiosities composed of simple, natural or manufactured objects. These are objects that lose their quality of use to become form and material, thus integrating that of the background. Modest objects that enhance each other to the point where, their values becoming equal, they blend into a composition that slides towards abstraction. It is a work in which one removes rather than adds. It is about orchestrating a precise silence, the expression of a seemingly quiet balance between forms and materials, between fullness and emptiness, between what is seen and what is not.
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Thierry GenayAbricot I, 2019Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed80 x 80 cm (31 x 31 in)Edition of 6 -
Thierry GenayBeige et blanc III, 2018Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed100 x 100 cm (39 x 39 in)Edition of 6
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Thierry GenayFond jaune et poire, 2018Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed80 x 80 cm (31 x 31 in)Edition of 9
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Thierry GenayTrois fruits et grès II, 2018Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 in)Edition of 6
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Thierry GenayMyrtille et assiette, 2017Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 in)Edition of 9
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Thierry GenayOcre et noir IV, 2016Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed80 x 80 cm (31 x 31 in)Edition of 9
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Thierry GenayOrange et ocre, 2016Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 in)Edition of 9
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Thierry GenayTomate et pomme, 2016Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 in)Edition of 9
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Thierry GenayTomate verte III, 2016Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed80 x 80 cm (31 x 31 in)Edition of 9
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Thierry GenayClementine III, 2015Printed with pigmentary inks on Fine Art paper, laminated on Dibond, framed50 x 50 cm (20 x 20 in)Edition of 9
Thierry Genay graduated from the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux. He lives and works in Toulouse, France.
SOLO & GROUP SHOWS
2020
Les 111 des arts, Toulouse, France
Reg’Art Festival, Gruissan, France
Les Vendanges de l’art Festival, Leucate, France
Les 111 des arts, Lille, France
Solo show, La Maison B.A.U., Narbonne, France
2019
La Maison B.A.U., Narbonne, France
Impression de mai Festival, Rencontres photographiques, Cugnaux, France
2nd Prize of the Festival
Les 111 des arts, Lille, France
Galerie Alain Daudet, Toulouse, France
2018
AAF Hamburg, Germany
AAF Amsterdam, Netherlands
Terres en Reflets, Maison de l’Artisanat et des Métiers d’Art, Marseille, France
Galerie Estampille, Bazas, France
AAF Hampstead, London, UK
Lausanne Art Fair, Lausanne, Switzerland
Art’titudes, Flourens, France - 1st Prize for Photography
AAF Brussels, Belgium
AAF Battersea, London, UK
2017
AAF Hamburg, Germany
Les 111 des Arts, Toulouse, Lyon and Paris, France
AAF Amsterdam, Netherlands
AAF Stockholm, Sweden
AAF New York, USA
AAF Battersea, London, UK
AAF Brussels, Belgium
2016
Les 111 des Arts, Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, France
Centre d’Initiatives Artistiques du Mirail / Bibliothèque Universitaire Centrale, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Toulouse
AAF Hampstead, London, UK
Château Haut Nouchet, Martillac, France
Galerie Estampille, with painter Peter Hopker, Bazas, France
AAF Battersea, London, UK
AAF Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Christine Clavère, Toulouse, France
2015
Salon Art3f, Mulhouse, France
AAF Amsterdam, Netherlands
Les 111 des Arts, Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, France
Voeux d’Artistes, Marseille, France
Salon d’automne de Colomiers
Cuq en Terrasses, Cuq Toulza
Les Arts conjugués, Mairie de Pin Balma
2014
Les 111 des Arts, Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, France
Galerie Mirail Studio, Université du Mirail, Toulouse, France
Les Estivales Lagorre, Château de Seix, France
Galerie Christine Clavère, Toulouse, France
2013
Galerie Christine Clavère, Toulouse, France
Les 111 des Arts, Paris and Toulouse, France
2012
Les 111 des arts, Paris and Toulouse, France
Galerie Soleil Bleu, Lodève, France
2011
Galerie Phare Sud, Gruissan, France
Solo Show, Cuq en Terrasses, Cuq Toulza
Les 111 des arts, Toulouse, France
2010
Les 111 des arts, Toulouse, France
