D.L Estrabaut
Born in Bordeaux in 1970. A graduate of EDAAG (School of Applied Arts in the Gironde) in 1991. Resides in Panama from 1995 to 2006. Resides in the Landes since 2007.
Permanent display at the Art Gallery 16 in Bayonne (France)
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Born in Bordeaux in 1970. A graduate of EDAAG (School of Applied Arts in the Gironde) in 1991. Resides in Panama from 1995 to 2006. Resides in the Landes since 2007.
Permanent display at the Art Gallery 16 in Bayonne (France)
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1970
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- Groups: Contemporary French Artists
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Résidence des Thermes, av. Milles Lacroix
Exposition Hôtel Kyriad
Hôtel Kyriad, 116 av. Magudas
Salon Art en Vrac
Village Rencontres Arts Contemporains, Boulevard de la cabotte
Abbaye de Saint Hilaire, 11250 Saint Hilaire
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Born in Bordeaux in 1970. A graduate of EDAAG (School of Applied Arts in the Gironde) in 1991. Resides in Panama from 1995 to 2006. Resides in the Landes since 2007.
Permanent display at the Art Gallery 16 in Bayonne (France)
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Collectives :
1997 - (juillet)
Dans le cadre du programme « culture de paix » de l'UNESCO avec le collectif ANTUMIA : exposition
thématique: « el que siembra Cosecha » à l'Aleph Café / ciudad de Panama, Panama.
- (septembre)
Exposition thématique : « Canalisis, testimonio y memorabilidad del canal de Panama », Bernheim
Gallery / ciudad de Panama, Panama.
- (novembre)
Exposition thématique : « VERDE »: Aleph Café / ciudad de Panama, Panama.
1998 - (octobre) Exposition thématique : « homenage pictorico y escultorico de Panama al 50
aniversario del estado de Israel »(hommage pictural de Panama pour les 50 ans de la création de l'état
d'Israël) : Berheim Gallery / ciudad de Panama, Panama.
- (17 novembre) Collectif ANTUMIA : Super Poster Gallery / ciudad de Panama, Panama.
- (24 novembre) Collectif ANTUMIA : exposition thématique « VERDE »: espace culturel de
l'ambassade de France / ciudad de Panama, Panama.
1999 - Collectif ANTUMIA : à l'espace culturel de Santiago de Veraguas, province de Veraguas / Panama.
2001
Concepteur, producteur et organisateur du premier festival d'art érotique de Panama: « EROTROPIC »,
exposition thématique (présentation: performances et défilés): au Musée Anthropologique de Panama/
ciudad de Panama, Panama
2002
Festival « EROTROPIC », expositions thématiques au Musée Anthropologique, à la « Casa Gongora »,
au café Neri et café Asis. Spectacles (performances) à la discothèque « Space ». Nuit de cloture
(spectacles, performances, défilés de mode...), salle « Under Live » /ciudad de Panama, Panama
« Vistazo Latino »: collectif d'artistes d'Amérique centrale: Latin Side Gallery / Miami (USA)
2003 - «ENTRELINEAS», exposition thématique (collectif international): espace culturel de l'ambassade
de France à Panama / ciudad de Panama, Panama
2004 - « hommage à Paul Gauguin », sous les auspices de l'ambassade de France et de l'Alliance
Française de Panama, à la « casa Moore » , île de Taboga / Panama
2005 - (octobre) Espace culturel, Université Nationale de Panama / ciudad de Panama
- (novembre) « Ojo! » exposition thématique (collectif international) : Weil Art Gallery / Panama
2006 - (novembre) « mémoire et traditions »: dans le cadre des rencontres de la maison de l'Amérique
Latine en Rhone-Alpes, Mairie du 6ème/ Lyon (France)
2008 - (mai) Musée Georgette Dupouy / Dax
2009 - (août) la Grange de Cristus : St Paul les Dax
(septembre) la Minoterie : Mont de Marsan
(octobre) le Colisée : Biarritz
2010 – (avril-mai) Salon des Indépendants de Saint Jean de Luz (mention du jury)
- (14 et 15 mai) les arts à ciel ouvert (moulin de Galoppe/Leon)
- (septembre) Art'Soule (Tardets)
- (Octobre) Salon d'Art Contemporain de Saint Martin (Blaye)
- (Novembre) Abbaye de St Hilaire (Aude)
Individuelles :
1993 - Maison du Pérou et de l'Amérique Latine / Bordeaux
1995 - Collages et portraits : espace culturel de l'ambassade de France à Panama / ciudad de Panama
- maison du Pérou et de l'Amérique Latine / Bordeaux
1997 - « Paseo del buen gusto »: espace culturel de l'ambassade de France à Panama
1999 - « Cronica de Fin de Siglo » (chronique d'une fin de siècle): Bernheim Gallery / Panama
2006 - (janvier) « rétrospective » : espace culturel de l'Alliance Française de Panama
2007 - « paysages » : l'Atrium café / Dax (France)
2010 – (mars) Abbaye de Saint-Hilaire (Aude)
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D.L Estrabaut
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Didier L.Estrabaut’s work of art can be described as eclectic. Far from an obsessive quest, it stems from a need to tame desires and spurs-of-the-moment to satisfy a never-ending curiosity. As the artist himself puts it: “To me, technique is not a purpose but a plain narrative tool”.
This could be considered as the essence of an artist in constant research. His work however derives more from a concern to adapt the technique to the meaning, even if this jeopardises the audience’s understanding. Nevertheless, this serial and thematic work conveys the necessary consistency and continuity: “I quite enjoy the idea of not being bound to “my own self” from one day to the other, which may lead to the other being eventually more genuine! I’m claiming the right for an almost continuous “aesthetical switching” so long as the pleasure of discovery gets every time strengthened”.
It is thus more a desire to be part of a continuity and the legacy of former masters, than craving for revolutionizing. The artist reveals a closer relationship to the seventeenth century Dutch painting, to the great British portrait tradition, to the Romantics, or even to the American realist tradition than to Pop iconoclasm
Since 2009, a series of « commonplace » bar scenes with sometimes Fauvist or realist rings feed his production. His “theatre” cafés link loneliness and roving together.
Space is deliberately sealed, without any horizon. It’s an everyday life stalk in its most banal and mediocre aspects, to reveal its unexpected beauty through a sometimes plain and sometimes exuberant aesthetics. The unspoken, the immobility and silence are full participants. This gives way to a familiar dramatic, which gets cleverly staged thanks to a demanding design and an accurate stage designer’s eye.
After having spent 10 years in Panama, Didier L.Estrabaut came back to his hometown in 2006 and started to work on the surrounding landscapes with a true naturalist eye. This gave life to a series of pine trees inspired by Francis Ponge's prose ("The Pine forest") that resembled a genuine floral cathedral bathed in a sometimes vibrant and deep, sometimes pale and gauzy light. He then painted in the same fashion roads that seemed to stab the landscape, creating endless straight asphalt trenches in the heart of the forest.
Then, presumably eager to measure himself up to his most famous predecessors, he has been painting a series of constantly changing water lilies, where space is structured by successive shots, alternating impasto and fluid strokes in a constant search for balance between strength and flexibility, immutability and swaying in a clear reference to Eastern art and mindset. This balance may also be perceived as a search for opposition and complementarities such as can be found between the dark and cold Yin, i.e. the water symbol of femininity, and the Yang its completing opposite, which is bright, hard, fast, and always in action and movement like the fire, the symbol of masculinity, giving way to a bipolar and indivisible nature.