Adrien Vermont
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1981, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Adrien Vermont’s work presents the crossroads of parietal caves, social sciences and early cartoons of the 30’s.
Through referencing ancient Egypt to nowadays vandal graffitis, Vermont redefines the basics of drawing, taking it to new fields of exploration.
Radical in figuration until abstraction, the minimalism of its forms favors a strong and thick line that clearly structures the surface of the canvas.
Losing the binary opposition between drawing and painting and overly restrictive dogmas in general, he prefers an approach where opposites are complementary and where the apparent simplicity of his forms give way to a complex reading of the history of art.
Recently, his main theme has been the ambivalent relationship that humankind builds to Nature, proposing an engaged - yet amusing - body of works staging speaking animals about their own condition.
Graduated from the Beaux Arts of Paris, his work has been shown in galleries, museums in a large part of Europe.
EXHIBITIONS
2020 "LIMBO", Group Show, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2018 “White blood blue night”, Group Show, CAC la traverse, Alfort-ville, France
“Traversée renarde”, Group Show, transpalette, Bourges, France
“Bifurquer”, Group Show, Art center of Pont-Scorff, France
2017 "Same Old Shit (with some new proposals though)", Solo Show, Polaris gallery, France
“Drawing as painting”, Le Salon, Antwerp, Belgium
“Natural Capital”, Group Show, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
“Draw me a thing", Group Show, White circle, Brussels, Belgium
“Watch out", Group Show, The crypt, Brussels, Belgium
“Traversées renardes", Group Show, Transpalette, Bourges, France
“White blood blue night", Group Show, CAC la traverse, Alfort-ville, France
2016 “Studies”, Solo Show, Art on paper, Polaris gallery, BOZAR, Belgium
“Des liaisons dangereuses", Group Show, Polaris gallery Paris, France
2015 “Furiosité”, Group Show, gallery Frederic Lacroix, curator Julie Crenn Paris, France
“Biblioteca”, Group Show, Underconstruction gallery, curator Katarina Stella, Paris, France
“Ca ira mieux demain”, Group Show, ALB gallery curator Leo Dorfner, Paris, France
“Confort moderne”, Group Show, Clovis XV, Brussels, Belgium
2014 “Une partie de campagne”, Solo Show, Saint Briac, France
“A surnatural history”, Solo Show, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
2014 “Histoires naturelles”, Group Show, Musée Robert Dubois-Corneau, France
“À quoi pense le dessin?”, Group Show, EESAB, Lorient, France
2013 “Teken”, Group Show, Other space, Gent, Belgium
2012 “Steaks, drawings and other stories”, Group Show, MCA of Madeire, Portugal
2010 “Trait pour trait”, Group Show, Beirut, Lebanon
2009 “Cheval de Troie”, Group Show, CAES, Ris-Orangis, France
2008 “3 young guns”, Group Show, Traffic gallery, Paris, France
“Figuration de l’imaginaire”, Group Show, gallery Saavedra, Barcelona, Spain
“Sans Titre”, Group Show, CAES, Ris-Orangis, France
FAIRS
2017 M.A.D Multiple Art Days, Maison rouge, Paris, France
2016 “Studies” , Art on paper, Polaris gallery, BOZAR, Belgium
2015 Drawing now, Paris, France
2014 Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Slick art fair, Paris, France
PRIZES
2011 Lauréat of the 3rd price of the Drawing Price David Weill, Paris, France
2009 Selected for the Drawing Price David Weill, Paris, France
Selected for the Marin Price for drawing and painting, Arcueil, France