Michel Tabanou
Michel TABANOU explores concepts of time, memory and absence. He is interested in how memory can blur the line between past and present, and allow us to travel back into the past. He often draws, paints on travels, memories and found photographs. Michel TABANOU is inspired by literature and also by his memories of travels that he ends up interspersed in a unique journey in places transposed by his feelings. Another constant of his work is the presence of words, questions, interrogations in a sometimes disillusioned, ironic or philosophical tone. That's why he defines his work as a narrative and plastic reflection. He builds a 'mental maze' for the viewer by including recurring elements in her paintings, seen from different angles. The viewer constructs their own narrative.
He is born in 1953 ( Antananarivo - Madagascar ). After studying in architecture and plastic arts he became a bookseller with a specialization on artists' books and avant-garde movements. This appeal brought him to collect the books of artists and this collection is deposited in Paris at the Centre d'art Immanence (Archive Station). Currently he is president of the Centre d'art Immanence in Paris and is politically engaged as deputy mayor in Fontenay-sous-Bois. He is also a great traveler. He is also a specialist of the famous french and american artist Robert Filliou, friend of childhood and resistance of his father Roger Tabanou, being custodian of an important correspondence allowing to bring new lighting on Robert Filliou.
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Michel TABANOU explores concepts of time, memory and absence. He is interested in how memory can blur the line between past and present, and allow us to travel back into the past. He often draws, paints on travels, memories and found photographs. Michel TABANOU is inspired by literature and also by his memories of travels that he ends up interspersed in a unique journey in places transposed by his feelings. Another constant of his work is the presence of words, questions, interrogations in a sometimes disillusioned, ironic or philosophical tone. That's why he defines his work as a narrative and plastic reflection. He builds a 'mental maze' for the viewer by including recurring elements in her paintings, seen from different angles. The viewer constructs their own narrative.
He is born in 1953 ( Antananarivo - Madagascar ). After studying in architecture and plastic arts he became a bookseller with a specialization on artists' books and avant-garde movements. This appeal brought him to collect the books of artists and this collection is deposited in Paris at the Centre d'art Immanence (Archive Station). Currently he is president of the Centre d'art Immanence in Paris and is politically engaged as deputy mayor in Fontenay-sous-Bois. He is also a great traveler. He is also a specialist of the famous french and american artist Robert Filliou, friend of childhood and resistance of his father Roger Tabanou, being custodian of an important correspondence allowing to bring new lighting on Robert Filliou.
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1953
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- Groups: Contemporary French Artists
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Robert FILLIOU
Je me suis lancé dans le grand bain du travail autour de la correspondance inédite de Robert FILLIOU avec Roger TABANOU dont en son temps le regretté Dominique BOZO avait su trouver les mots justes pour la qualifier de capitale, essentielle.. . Cette correspondance que les connaisseurs de Filliou connaissent sans l'avoir jamais parcourue et seulement lue au travers de quelques passages publiés dans le Catalogue de la rétrospective de Beaubourg en 1992 ou dans quelques passages volés dans l'ouvrage de référence sur les livres d'artistes d'Anne Moeglin Delcroix... J'ai décidé de dépasser le stade d'une préface attentive et éclairante - étant le seul d'ailleurs à pouvoir le faire - et de prendre ces lettres qui sont au cœur de ma vie depuis des décennies, qui prennent une étouffante place centrale, et d’en faire l’axe d’une réflexion plus large ; de les prendre à témoin de mon vécu, du poids qu’elles ont fait peser et de ce qu’elles m’ont révélé sur le caractère de hommes si liés dans cette jeunesse où se construit leur devenir d'hommes.... Je me lance donc dans l’écriture ou plutôt m’immisce comme tiers correspondant…Je vais devoir aussi voyager pour cette correspondance et explorer un territoire inconnu, un lieu en friche dont j’ai aujourd’hui les clés. J’ai transmis à ma fille Ophélie TABANOU le soin de réaliser la traduction anglaise de cette correspondance. Et je remercie d’avance pour leur soutien mon ami et complice Frédéric VINCENT – directeur du centre d’Art Immanence à Paris, artiste et bien entendu mon amie Sylvie JOUVAL dont les travaux sur Robert FILLIOU sont remarquables et incontestablement précieux.