Antoine Arlandis

Arlandis was born in Valence, Spain, in 1946. His family moved to Algeria but eventually settled in Marseille, France. From an early age Arlandis loved to draw and paint. An autodidact his first formal training came when he worked with Roche a former pupil of Matisse. He participated in his first exhibition in 1968 at the 'Peano' in Marseille along with other local artists, followers of Pierre Ambrogiani, the famous « peintres du soleil » (Antoine Ferrari, Louis Audibert, Camille Pascal, etc). Arlandis travelled widely and during one of his 14 visits to Japan he met and worked with Kazuo Shirage and his wife Fujiko, grand masters of the Gutai movement. In 1988, Arlandis created the stained glass for the church of Saint-Mitre in Martigues. More recently he discovered the world of engraving working with Bernard Remusat. With him he created his first editions and also illustrated his first book using the text of Albert Camus. This painting seems inspired by his stained glass projects but also the Tachisme movement of earlier in the century.