ANTOINE CARBONNE

Born in Paris in 1987. Lives and works between Paris and Brussels.

After spending his childhood in Senegal and Scotland, Antoine Carbonne continued his studies in the Paris suburbs. He then attended Hunter College in New York and the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he graduated in 2011. During this period, he regularly visited Philippe Cognée's studio and Werner Bouwens' printing and publishing workshop.

He worked as a supervisor at Beaubourg in the modern collections department, where he discovered Picabia and his eclecticism. He was also a stretcher-bearer at Saint-Antoine hospital during the summer, where his first paintings depicted daily life. During an exchange in New York, he was captivated by the minimalist interpretation of sculptor Tony Smith, and studied the difference between the aesthetic experience of space in an exhibition, and that of the aesthetics of a space in everyday life. Strongly influenced by this question, Antoine Carbonne began depicting everyday scenes using painted collage techniques he learned from the American artist David Salle. From this creative process, he has retained a kind of chemistry or alchemy, making each assemblage of paint an experiment, and his studio a veritable laboratory.

Antoine Carbonne's work has been exhibited at Villa Noailles (Hyères), Atelier BCD (Brussels), MuhKA (Antwerp), Cd lt+ (Liège), Galerie Virginie Louvet (Paris), and Magasins Généraux (Paris).