David Raffini
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"In many of my works, the relationship to time becomes one of the elements of feasibility of the artwork, in its possible degradation, in its transformation, or in its metamorphosis."
"David Raffini paints with very few brushes. He instead uses tools intended for sculpture: a grinder, a blowtorch, even a hydraulic press. He is not the first, of course, to think outside of the factual clichés of the studio painter with their paint brushes and sponges in hand. But his thwarted relationship to sculpture is quite unique. Where the sculptures attest to the violence of a gesture, of a visible and assertive action, the paintings are the result of slower, more tenuous processes, revealing a certain aesthetic calm, or at least a non-exuberant anxiety that has found its stability, like the calm after a storm. Being raw without being brutal."
Eric Mangion (February 2021)
Born in 1982 in Bastia, France
Lives and works in Bruxelles, Belgium
Few key dates
2009 Diplomed with a DNSEP in the Villa Arson, Nice
2010 Residency of the Palais de Tokyoâs pavillon pairing the exhibition entitled "Expanded crash" presented in the Module 2 of the Palais de Tokyo
2015 Wins the Fondation Ricardâs Prize with Florian Pugnaire
2017 Personal exhibition entitled "Processumenti" at the FRAC Corse
2019 Participate in the exhibition "Rumeurs et légendes" at the Musée dâart moderne de la Ville de Paris
2021 2nd personal exhibition at the Galerie Papillon, Paris
Recent press
"The Corsican painter, praised for his softness, pursues a practice made of contrasts. His works, sometimes born of a certain violence, integrate all types of materials, including the dust of his studio floor. David Raffini proceeds by layers, because he is interested in the border by which the forms are born, and in the way they will inhabit the space." La force volcanique de David Raffini, Anaïs Hammoud, in The Art Newspaper édition française, March 2021
with Florian Pugnaire
Solo exhibitions
2021
Amours endormies, Galerie Papillon, Paris
2019
Pugnaire & Raffini, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris*
2018
Show me, L'étrangère, London, UK
Fahrenheit 134, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris*
Matières Primaires, Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Ãtienne
Ressac, Le Portique, Le Havre*
2017
L'onde, FIAC Hors les Murs, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris*
Processumenti, FRAC Corse
2016
Show me, Galerie Torri, Paris
INSULAE 2, Galerie Papillon, Paris
Art Monte-Carlo, Stand de la Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Monaco
Florian Pugnaire et David Raffini, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris*
Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Prix Ricard*
2015
INSULAE 1, SHIN Gallery, New York, USA
2014
Défigurer, Galerie Maud Barral, Nice
Le Coefficient de Poisson, Le patio, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris*
2013
Chjami Rispondi, TORRI, Paris*
Ãnergie Sombre, Musée National Pablo Picasso, Vallauris*
Matières-Temps, Centre dâArt Contemporain Les églises, Chelles*
Fondre Battre Briser, Le Pavillon Blanc, Centre dâart de Colomiers, Colomiers*
2012
III, Centre Culturel Una Volta, Bastia*
2011
Amnésia, Espace Contemporain Domaine Orenga, Patrimonio
Glissements, Le Dojo, Nice*
Berlin Paris 2011, Carlier I Gebauer, Berlin, Germany*
2010
Hors Gabarit, TORRI, Paris*
In Fine, Palais de Tokyo, Paris*
E figura si l'isula, fantasy island, FRAC Corse, Corte
2009
Expanded-Crash, Centre National dâArt Contemporain de la Villa Arson, Nice*
Expanded-Crash, Module 2, Palais de Tokyo, Paris*
Group exhibitions
2021
Un été à Pissos, Pissos
2019
30 ans pile !, Galerie Papillon, Paris
Rumeurs et légendes, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
2018
Sacr/face, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris
2017
Singing stones, Palais de Tokyo, The Roundhouse, Chicago, USA
2016
Sculptures Matières, Matériaux, Textures..., Hors les Murs, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxemburg
2015
Sphère, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel*
Lâordre des lucioles, Fondation dâentreprise Ricard, Paris*
GAS Station, Gagliardi Art System Gallery, Turin, Italy*
Chercher le Garçon, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine*
Ãnergie sombre, Artemovendo, Porto Alegre, Brasil*
Ãnergie sombre, ArtVilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania*
Ãnergie sombre, Athens Digital Arts festival, Athens, Greece*
Videonale 15, Bonn, Germany*
2014
Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy*
Ãnergie Sombre, Biennale de Belleville, Paris *
Jâécris Donc Je Suis, avec BEN et LA STATION, Le Garage, Brive
Saison 17, LA STATION au Lieu Commun â Espace dâArt Contemporain, Toulouse
Boîte en Valise, Institut Français â Exposition itinérante*
Sans matières ajoutées, commissaire d'exposition About : Blank, CNEAI, Chatou, France
Entrée Libre Mais Non Obligatoire, Centre National dâArt Contemporain,Villa Arson, Nice
Réinventer le monde, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Fondre, battre, briser, Le pavillon blanc - Centre d'art de Colomiers
Polkapalace, Musée Municipal dâArt et dâHistoire de Bastia*
2012
Impressions dâAteliers, Galerie Maud Barral, Nice,
FranceFirst Shanghai Sculpture Project, Shanghai Art Institute, China*
Sunshine and Precipitation, LA STATION au Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Ireland*
Texture/Material (Berlin Paris 2012), KLEMMâS Gallery, Berlin, Germany*
Paper, MAMAC, Nice
New Abstract Generation, Le Box, Fonds M-ARCO, Marseille*
2011
La Fabrique Sonore, Domaine Pommery, Reims*
Art-o-rama, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
Focus, Parcours associé de la Biennale de Lyon, Vienne *
Programme vidéo, Module 1, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Collectionneurs en Situation, Espace de lâArt Concret, Mouans-Sartoux*
La Sculpture Autrement, Ecoparc ACCA, Mougins*
Que Sera, Seraâ¦, LA STATION au CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2010
Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo et Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris*
Reset, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris
2009
Kit Invite n°2, Paris*
Points, lignes et plans-séquences, Galerie des musées, Toulon
" II ", RDF Galerie, Nice
E Figura si lâIsula, Fantasy Island, FRAC Corse, Corte
2008
Accidents de Parcours, Corte*
Home Cinema, Traffic, Lausanne, Switzerland
Panorama 9-10, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Pavillon 7, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2007
Pavillon 7, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Temps d'image, La ferme du Buisson, Noisiel
Panorama 8, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
2006
L'égosystème, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Liste 09, villa Arson, Nice
Génération 2006, Galerie de la Marine, Nice
Collections
2017
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2015
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne*
2009, 2011, 2017
FRAC Corse
Prix / Awards
2015
Prize of the Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris*
Videonale Audience Award of KfW Stiftung, Bonn, Germany
2014
Prix des Amis de la Maison Rouge, Paris*
Un festival câest trop court, Nice
2013
Un festival c'est trop court, Nice
2008
Prize CTC painting section, Ajaccio
Residencies and Grants
2016
Fahrenheit Fondation By Flax, Los Angeles, USA
2015
American Residencies of French Institute, New York, Los Angeles, USA
2009-2010
Palais de Tokyo pavillon in Sartène
Formation
2007
DNSEP, Villa Arson, Nice
2004
Master Arts Appliqués, Université de Corse, Corte