Fabien VERSCHAERE( Born in 1975) - Lot 1

Fabien VERSCHAERE( Born in 1975) Notre Dame 2024 Panel signed and dated on back 2023 Lot offered to the Fondation Notre Dame and sold for its benefit. Fabien VERSCHAERE, visual artist born in 1975 in Vincennes, lives and works in Paris. Graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2000 and from the Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2001. After winning the Dena Foundation prize in 2000, his work was exhibited in France, notably at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris for three major events, including the group show Notre histoire in 2006 and a solo show at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2007. This was followed by a series of exhibitions abroad, in Milan, Hong Kong, Newcastle, New York, Bucharest, Hanoi and Abu Dhabi. In 2009, he took part in two major group shows in Paris: La Force de l'Art 02 at the Grand Palais and Vraoum at La Maison Rouge. Several collaborations followed, resulting in unique and exceptional pieces such as the leather-wrapped table soccer custom-made with designers Domeau & Pérès, the gift boxes created with Paris table-maker Elie Bleu, and the glass service designed with the CIAV, Centre International d'Art Verrier de Meisenthal. In 2012, after a solo show in Munich at the Traversée gallery, he took part in a number of group exhibitions, including at the Maison des Arts in Malakoff and the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris. In 2013, an in situ creation commissioned by RMN-Grand Palais was inaugurated in the rotunda D of the Grand Palais. Numerous group exhibitions followed in 2014: the "Le Mur" exhibition at La Maison Rouge in Paris, the "Portrait 1" exhibition at Galerie RX in Paris and the "Andreas et Fabien Verschaere" exhibition at Galerie Huberty & Breyne in Brussels.A solo show at the Musée d'Art Moderne Saint-Etienne Métropole was presented in 2014. A collaboration with Pierre Hermé resulted in an original project in the form of "Résidences Itinérantes", from which Fabien Verschaere's drawings were produced in Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and Paris.In 2015, he took part in a group exhibition at the SEMA Museum in Seoul, Korea, as part of the "G-Dragon Project", and was commissioned by Gecina to create a monumental fresco in the 13th arrondissement of Paris as part of the "1 Immeuble, 1 oeuvre" program launched by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Extract from the artist's biography: https://www.verschaerefabien.com