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Michel Carlin

"I try in my painting which the body becomes the body even of the painting."

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Notes of biography

Michel Carlin is born in 1935. He is a child in 1943 when he knows bombardments in Chambéry (Savoy), his birthplace. Terrified, he discovers first corpses terribly mutilated in a familiar landscape that became apocalyptic. Later, Carlin will write that it is undoubtedly this day that he became painter.
He leaves for Paris in 1954; without financial resource, he takes refuge to the Academy of “la Grande Chaumière” where he draws all days long nude models. Mobilized in 1955 with the war of Algeria, he painted there mutilated bodies and Melouza’s mass grave.
In 1960, Michel Carlin launches out in the painting of great white monochromic compositions, to undoubtedly veil deaths of his memory. In the middle of 60’s, he takes part in the first two Plastic arts Festivals in Antibes (Arp, Dubuffet, Matta, Olivier Debré, . . .). This same time he binds friendship with the painter Jean Villeri. In 1968, he takes up again the atelier created by Albert Gleizes in 1923; he stays thus nearly 8 years in Moly-Sabata (Isere). He sets up the Structure-Spaces group with painters, sculptors and photographers.
Michel Carlin organises personal exhibitions and collectives ones. He takes part in the Biennial International Ceramics in Vallauris, and in the first collective experiment of “l’Atelier au Musée”, with the museum of Chambéry. In the middle of the 70’s, Michel Carlin comes to settle in the Var. In Cannes, he finds his friends: Jean Villeri, Andre Villers, Franta, Prassinos, in the Gallery Candela. He comes back to the figuration in 1978, with mummified bodies. He participated to Menton’s Biennal in 1980 with artists such as Miro, Tapies, Saura and many others.
Carlin never stops working, because he is fond of painting and creating. He likes working in his atelier. Many exhibitions, in France and abroad, have devoted his works.
The artist lives and works today in Callas (Var), where he settles in 2001.

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Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Carlin, militant de l’art », A. Van Der Eecken, in Nice-Matin, Oct. 1983
  • « Suzanne Fragments », A. M. Villeri, Cat., Galerie Renoir, Nice, 1990
  • « M. Carlin - Jardin de Suzanne », cat., Galerie Sordini, Marseille, 1991
  • « Les sujets d'argile », cat., Galerie Xavier Delannoy, La Garde-Freinet, 1998
  • « Mémoire de corps », F. Altmann, in Nice-Matin, Oct. 2000
  • « Michel Carlin. Mémoire de corps », Cat. Galerie de la Marine, Nice, 2001
  • « M. Carlin - Mémoire de corps », cat., Château d'eau-Château d'Art, Bourges, 2007
  • « M. Carlin », cat., Galerie Le Hangart-J. Fromanger, Draguignan, 2010
To read from the artist :
  • « L’obscur sur le problème de la sagesse », H. Go, Ed. Septentrion, 1998
  • « Peindre au quotidien », texte in revue Créations n°111, mars-avril 2004
Website :
www.michelcarlin.com

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