(1956) French artist

In the middle of the 90s, CHAVANIS abruptly abandoned painting, sculpture and engraving not to devote any more temporarily to the writing as well as to the photo. It is at the end of this fertile period of transition that he began conceiving these famous fantastic installations which seem to possess the wonderful property of the material weight. His most spectacular realization in this domain doubtless stays the suspension of a motorcycle V-MAX. We remain really stunned to notice in which point the only fact of seeing avoiding such a racing car makes it to us unrecognizable. Dispossessed of its mass, the two-wheeler is at the same moment emptied of all the values with which it is symbolically associated. What remains so exposed for us is only an absurd object: unreal due to seeming ethéré. To understand indeed the sense of its current works, it is however necessary to return on the works of this transition period. Because before beginning to investigate the diverse possibilities offered by the suspension. Stéphane CHAVANIS felt the need to bend more attentively over the concept of the gravity.

Frédéric Blanc

Chavanis, comes to us with his(her,its) Bestiary, which is a reflection, the consumer society evolved well, since Soutine, we enter another world between paint(painting) and sculpture, the other visions, the other propositions, time(weather) are modern, the food industry is crossed(spent) by the gallery, set up as art?

Frédéric Altman (juin 2004)