Pilotis 2, 2020

Grégoire Lavigne  

Picking, fishing and hunting, traps, weapons, enough to shelter from the sun, assemble two pieces of wood, take a mast in the forest, or let it slip away, sow, lure its predators, the strategies of the different kingdoms, plant, animal, and human, inspire in Grégoire Lavigne precious and brutal pieces. The transformations carried out on the materials found in nature are minimal, ligatures, direct cutting, or simple composition in the manner of ikebana. They refer to inherited know-how. It is undoubtedly no coincidence that a carpenter by training, Grégoire prefers traditional techniques to machined productions.

As in a natural history museum or an ethnological museum, these objects for invented use are aestheticized and put at a distance. Botanical curiosity, primitive tools, they become the absurd motifs of an islandless Robinson, with delirious ingenuity and anthropocentrism.

Irony points beneath naturalistic fantasy, it reminds us of our humble condition as an animal with tender skin, and renounces any possibility of sublimation: art as an artefact, necessarily heterogeneous.

Aude Nogues

Exposure

2017 • House of the Pyrenees National Park, Etsaut

2016 • Untitled 2, DIDAM, Bayonne

2016 • Landscapes in motion, Accous, Aspe Valley

2016 • Merger, Lys, Ossau valley

2015 • Testoster Two, gallery of the ACBA art school, Bayonne

2014 • September patio, Anglet Town Hall

2014 • Back to Mourenx, Contemporary Art Gallery, Mourenx

2013 • Cimes, for “Topographic 3 Eglise des Forges, Tarnos

2013 • Laboratory, municipal greenhouses, heritage day, Anglet

2013 • Grégoire Lavigne & The Bad Seeds, Galerie Dubalen, Mont de Marsan

2012 • Meadow fishing party, Bitamine Faktoria, Irun, Spain

2011 • Meadow fishing party, Galerie du second Jeudi, Bayonne

2010 • Contemporary art biennial (off), Galerie Agora, Dakar, Senegal

2009 • Expo Atelier, Bayonne

2007 • La Corniche festival, Hendaye

2007 • Vegetable fantasy, Atelier exhibition, Bayonne

2006 • Greenhouse Effects, Garein Floralies

2005 • Cloister of Sainte-Marie cathedral, Bayonne

2005 • Random plantation, Château de Baroja, Anglet

2004 • Workshop exhibition, Bayonne

2004 • Art Gallery, Saint-Sever

2004 • 412 square meters of art, Anglet

2003 • Trophy for young talents, la poudrière, Bayonne

Residence

2016 • Combination; creation residence Lys, Ossau valley

2016 • Landscape in motion; creation residency in the Aspe valley (Pyrenees) with the Phonies Bergères

2013 • Grégoire Lavigne & The Bad Seeds; residency within the framework of the FLAC, AIAA (the workshop of artistic and craft initiatives), Roquefort

2006 • Creative residency for the effects de Serres exhibition, Floralies de Garein

Mediation

2018 • Louis de Foix High School Workshop Tree of Life as part of a European project, followed by illustrative sculpture

2018 • Creative fishing children's workshop as part of the temporary exhibition of the FRAC Under the empty sky, the ocean, fishermen and suddenly…, Nekatoenea, Hendaye

2015 • Creative workshop for adults Land Art in the grounds of the Marsan media library, Mont de Marsan

2014 • Children's workshop at the Sabers leisure center

2014 • Land Art adult workshop as part of the Auprès de mon Arbre festival

2014 • Intervention and workshop at Pierre Bourdieu college in Mourenx (4th grade) as part of the Back to Mourenx exhibition

2014 • Intervention and workshop at the Jeanne d'Albret college in Pau (6th grade) with the Pau-Pyrénées agglomeration community and the Bel Ordinaire contemporary art space

2014 • Children's workshop within the framework of the FLAC

Training

2001 • DNAP School of Fine Arts of Bordeaux

1998 • Preparation for the Bayonne Art School

1997 • BTS industrial carpentry, design / furniture design

1995 • Professional Baccalaureate in industrial carpentry

1993 • BEP and CAP carpentry, Lycée Louis de foix, Bayonne.