Olivier Daunat
A self-taught creator, Olivier Daunat (b.1956) began to paint in oil. He had to give up quickly because the paint caused him serious allergies. Several years later, alongside his job as a nursing assistant, he began an intense work in pencil. He put onto paper his obsession and his fascination for the city and its complexity. On large formats, he composes very dense urban universes made of real and imaginary machines, saturated industrial areas, huge railway stations, no man's land and wasteland in the heart of megacities. Daunat says, "I like it when it's dense, saturated. I almost want it to make noise’’. In these prison universes, made up of dams, control zones and barriers, the artist seems to find a form of appeasement. Inspired by archival images of dams, cemeteries, railways and various construction sites, Olivier Daunat works from sketches and plans for hours at a time, while taking liberties with perspectives and having fun with ladders.
His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Creation Franche in Belgium and in various galleries. In 2019, he exhibited for the first time at the Musée des Arts Buissonniers, which dedicated a monographic exhibition to him.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2019 Outsider Art Fair, Atelier Richelieu, Paris (with Galerie Pol Lematis)
2019 Paysages Urbains, Musee des Arts Buissonniers, Saint Sever, France
2019 DDessin Art Fair, Paris (with Galerie Pol Lematis)
2017 Le Frigo, d’Art Le Frigo, Albi, France
2017 Visions et Creations Dissidentes, Musee de la Creation Franche, Begles, France
