Tony Soulie

Art Brokerage: Tony Soulie French Artist: Tony Soulie, born in 1955, is a photographer, painter, sculptor, printmaker. Tony Soulie grew up in Paris where he was born and where he studied at the School of Applied Arts. Although best known as a painter , he also created many artists' books , sculptures , prints as well as installations and performances. He also made ​​land art installations and more particularly on volcanoes , sometimes even the inner caldera volcanoes assets Tony Soulie is part of the French "New Abstraction " years 1970-1981. Hundreds of exhibitions of his work have been held around the world and they are in many public and private collections such as the Modern Art of Paris , the Museum of Utsunomiya, the Cultural Foundation and Museum Arts of Hawaii or the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation , the foundation Spiegel and many others. His work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile , Tapestry Museum in Aix -en- Provence, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Honolulu Hawaii, the Avallon Museum , Kulturhuset Art Center at Stockholm Clayarch Gimhae Museum in South Korea , the Museum of Industry ( Bois du Cazier ) to Charleroi , the Museum of Modern Art Modern Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Fine Arts in Brasilia, the national Museum of Colombia in Bogota , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia , the Royal Museum in Bangkok Post. There is a constant in the materials used by Soulie in his painting. The use of varnish and carborundum powder added to acrylic paint became characteristic of his art since 1992 with his first painted photographs on Africa. These materials , originally not intended for the fine arts, were adopted by Soulie at the time his studio was in the Bastille district was dominated by artisanal activity related to the manufacture of mobilier. The use of carborundum in his painting is also directly related to its facilities on volcanoes: the silicon compound is not pure in nature than in volcano exhalations. The technique of painted photograph, or " quality, paint " as he calls it , is based on large format prints in black and white photographs taken during his many travels around the world, it covers ink , acrylic , varnishes and carborundum . The themes explored affect different subjects as megacities captured in his photographs during his travels in the largest cities of the world, but also flowers or dream- catchers.