Between abstract and figurative, joy and bitterness, lyricism and austerity. Always Miollis sparkles, his art sparkles everywhere.
Jean-Christophe Buisson, Le Figaro
Bertrand de Miollis is a French Painter and engraver
Having trained at ENSAD Paris (2002-2004), Bertrand de Miollis draws his inspiration from his explorations.
On foot, aboard sailboats, or most often on his motorcycle, he sets out to meet his themes, people, scenes and landscapes.
On Lake Baikal, in the USA, in Chile or in Rwanda : different immersions but the same open-minded gaze that questions the links between humans and environments.
As an «embedded artist» with British and French soldiers in Irak (2003) and Afghanistan (2010), he bears witness with his brushes to the difficult reality of war with great humanity. At the heart of the Opéra National de Paris, he made an in-depth journey with the dancers of the Company(1 year in residence in 2014).
The artworks created as a result of these «immersions» are featured in the press, in publications, on television and in galleries.
Initially known for his travel journals with, among others, the writer Sylvain Tesson, he now expresses himself in oil paintings and wood engravings.
A member of the Taylor Foundation (2015), he is sensitive to the theme of the sea and its protection. He was appointed Official Painter of the French Navy (Peintre Officiel de la Marine) in 2018. His singular and colorful universe oscillates between figuration and abstraction in a transcended relationship to reality. Built on a tension between softness and acidity, his aspirational artworks combine power, delicateness and poetry.
EDUCATION
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
CO-AUTHOR
dozen books of which
- Irak Année Zéro, aux Editions Gallimard (2004)
- 150 jours à contre-courant, avec Maud Fontenoy, aux Editions du Chêne (2007)
- Aphorismes sous la lune, avec Sylvain Tesson, aux Equateurs (2010)
- Haute Tension, avec Sylvain Tesson et Thomas Goisque (2010)
- Sibérie ma chérie, avec Sylvain Tesson aux Editions Gallimard (2012)
- 100 choses à faire à Paris, aux Editions Le Figaro (2013)
- Deux petits pas sur le sable mouillé, avec Anne-Dauphine Julliand, aux Arènes (2018)
EXHIBITIONS
- A venir:
- « Salon de l’Ecole française », Invité d’honneur, Exposition collective décembre 2024
- « Musée Derain », Exposition personnelle Municipalité de Chambourcy, mai 2025
- « Salon comparaison », Exposition collective, groupe de Michèle Battut 2025
- Passées :
- «Salon Comparaison», Grand Palais, Paris, 2024
- « Air Panorama », Exposition personnelle Galerie Artismagna, mai 2024
- « Oxygene Reset », Exposition personnelle Galerie Artismagna 2022
- « Escales ! »,- Exposition collective, Ville du Lavandou et Galerie Artismagna, 2021
- « Sur les cimes», 2 artistes, Galerie La Vie d’Artiste, Megève 2021
- « Montagnes – Méditerranée », 2 artistes, Galerie Artismagna, Lyon 2021
- Regards vers le Mont saint Michel, Exposition collective, Musée du Scriptorium, Ville d’Avranches 2020
- « CircumNavigations! », Exposition personnelle Paris, 2020
- «Les peintres officiels de la Marine», Exposition collective, Ville de Bénodet, 2020
- « A l’Ouest », Exposition collective, Ville des Sables d’Olonne, 2020
- «Peindre la guerre», Exposition collective, Musée des Troupes de montagne, Ville de Grenoble, 2019
- Salon de la Marine, Paris, 2018.
- Espace Art et Liberté, Exposition collective, Ville de Charenton le Pont, 2018
- Salon Comparaison, Grand Palais, Paris, 2016
- « La danse », 2 artistes, Fondation Taylor, Paris, 2015
- « 30 ans de prix Noufflard », Exposition collective, Galerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2015
- Musée de la Poste, Exposition collective, Paris, 2015
- « Paris : un autre voyage », 2 artistes, Galerie Nabokov, Paris, 2012
- «Baïkal», 2 artistes, Galerie Nabokov, Paris, 2011
- «Polo», 2 artistes, Deauville et BNP Paribas Wealth managment, Paris, 2010
- «La route de rhum», 2 artistes, Galerie la Boucherie, Saint-Briac, 2010
- «John Eliot Gardiner et ses musiciens», 2 artistes, Galerie le Vieux Paris, 2010
- «Le Maroc», 2 artistes, Hôtel Jnane Tasmna, Marrakech, 2008
AWARDS
- First prize for works on paper – Painters in the Armies (2011)
- First prize of the Noufflard Foundation – Fondation de France (2012)
- Eddy Rugale Maichailov Award (2013)
- Member of the Taylor Foundation (2015)
- Appointed by the Minister, Official Painter of the Navy (2018)
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