Yves Bélorgey
Born in 1960, Yves Bélorgey lives and works in Montreuil, France.
Since the 1990s, Yves Bélorgey has been interested in suburban landscape, and more particularly in the collective architecture of large complexes built between 1950 and 1970. He then began a vast painting project which would respond to a fictitious public commission consisting of “painting collective buildings like documents ”. Based on methodical and nostalgic archiving of a whole neglected part of modernist architecture and of a bygone social project, Yves Bélorgey’s work gradually started to reveal interiors and human figures, since these same buildings are either destroyed or renovated over time. For the artist, interior and exterior are intimately linked: living is not just a private activity but also a social framework that allows us to learn and test our social behavior.
Abandoning the technique of oil painting, he now works with dry pigments that he puts and fixes directly on the canvas. By resembling graphite drawings and photography, this technique ensures direct contact with colors, and renders the artist’s favorite subject – the inhabited buildings – even more vibrant.
Yves Bélorgey’s work was the subject of personal exhibitions in numerous institutions such as Le Printemps de Septembre, CIAM – La Fabrique, Toulouse, France (2021), Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany (2019), Centre d’art Le19, Montbéliard, France (2017), Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France (2012), Ulm Kunstlerhaus, Germany (2012), Musée National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2011). In 2012, the Mamco in Geneva organized the first retrospective to his artwork, including nearly a hundred pieces.
In 2001, Yves Bélorgey was granted an outside residency at Villa Medici (voyage to Latin America) and in 2009 he was resident at Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, Japan.
Public collections (selection): MAMCO, Geneva, Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, FRAC Franche-Comté, Dole, FRAC Pays de Loire, Carquefou, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, City of Lyon, France, City of Saint-Priest, France.
Works
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Yves Bélorgey
Onkel Toms Hütte
Architecte : Bruno Taut
Berlin, December - January 2022
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Jardin à Britz
October 2022
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Cité Jardin de Falkenberg
Architecte : Bruno Taut
Construction : 1913…
Berlin, November 2022
China ink on paper
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Maison de Tessenow à Berlin Zehlendorf
Architecte : Heinrich Tessenow
Construction : 1930, September 2022
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Maison dans la Cité Jardin de Falkenberg
Architecte : Bruno Taut
Construction 1913, November 2022
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Les maisons jumelles de la cité Jardin Hellerau
Architecte : Heinrich Tessenow
Construction : 1909 …
Dresde, Allemagne
China ink on paper
240 x 240 cm
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Yves Bélorgey
Jardin ouvrier à la Butte Rouge
Architecte : Paul Sirvin et André Jiousse
Paysagiste : André Jiousse, Construction : 1932 à 1939
Chatenay Malabry, October-December 2021
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
L’Abreuvoir
Bobigny, July, August 2022
Pigment on canvas
150 x 150 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Cité Jardin de Falkenberg, Architecte : Bruno Taut
Construction : 1913…, Berlin, Décembre 2022
Encre de chine sur papier
80 x 121 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Intérieur aux jardins de Neppert.
Architectes Lacaton & Vassal
février, mars 2019
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm
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Yves Bélorgey
Le Mirail Bellefontaine
Toulouse, Mars, Avril 2020,
Pigments secs sur toile
240 x 240 cm. -
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Yves Bélorgey
Une fin d'après-midi à Heilbronn. June-July 2018
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Römerstadt siedlung, 2018
Pigment on canvas
150 x 150 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Heimat siedlung. Arch. Ernst May-Franz Roeckle Bau: construction 1927-1934 Frankfurt-am-Main. August 2018
Pigment on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Baldwin Hills Village ou Village Green (IV)
Architecte : Reginald D. Johnson
Paysagiste : Fred Barlow
Date de construction: 1942
Los Angeles, Californie, Avril - May 2016
Oil on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Baldwin Hills Village ou Village Green (II)
Architecte : Reginald D. Johnson
Paysagiste : Fred Barlow
Date de construction: 1942
Los Angeles, Californie
February 2016
Oil on canvas
243 x 243 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Immeuble d’habitation Auderghem
Architecte : Lucien Kroll
Date de construction: 1962-1965
Auderghem,Bruxelles, Belgique, Décembre 2014 - Janvier 2015
Oil on canvas
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Immeuble d’habitation Auderghem
Architecte : Lucien Kroll
Date de construction: 1962-1965
Auderghem,Bruxelles, Belgique
2015
Oil on canvas
243 x 243 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Bar Le Ménil
299 rue des Pyrénées, Février 2017
Graphite on paper
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Vidéoprime
209 rue des Pyrénées, Février 2017
Graphite on paper
240 x 240 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Crèche; 140, rue des Pyrénées, August 2016
Graphite on paper
250 x 270 cm -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view, le Printemps de septembre, 2021
CIAM, Toulouse, France
Courtesy le Printemps de septembre.
Photo : Damien Aspe -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view, le Printemps de septembre, 2021
CIAM, Toulouse, France
Courtesy le Printemps de septembre.
Photo : Damien Aspe -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view, le Printemps de septembre, 2021
CIAM, Toulouse, France
Courtesy le Printemps de septembre.
Photo : Damien Aspe -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view, le Printemps de septembre, 2021
La Fabrique, Toulouse, France
Courtesy le Printemps de septembre.
Photo : Damien Aspe -
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Yves Bélorgey,
Exhibition view, Rue Des Pyrénées, Centre d’art Le19, Montbéliard, France -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view, Schwarze Spiegel, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany, 2019 -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view, Schwarze Spiegel, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany, 2019 -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view Interactions 1991-2012, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland -
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Yves Bélorgey
Exhibition view Interactions 1991-2012, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
