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Nicolas Deshayes

Par la sculpture, Nicolas Deshayes examine les contours du corps et la matérialité qui se déploie sous leur surface. Le processus — ou sa mise en œuvre — constitue le moteur de ses sculptures, qui parviennent à transmettre des états de liquidité, de dureté, de chaleur, de froid, et à évoquer des objets ou des systèmes produits mécaniquement. Les processus vitaux d’ingestion et de circulation par exemple sont suggérés par des formes élégamment utilitaires. Les surfaces de Deshayes restent résolument imperméables, évoquant l’architecture des infrastructures publiques. Il privilégie les techniques de moulage – bronze, fer, faïence – et collabore régulièrement avec des artisans et des usines spécialisés. Leurs savoir-faire ancrés dans l’histoire et leurs spécificités locales s’entremêlent dès la conception de l’œuvre à venir. La chaleur extrême active les processus de fonte, animant la matière jusqu’à ce que le métal en fusion, saisi par le froid, fige son mouvement dans la solidité. Récemment, Deshayes a redonné une fonction à certaines de ses sculptures : il a fait circuler de l’eau chaude dans une pièce, ou pompé de l’eau dans des bassins publics. Dans Thames Water (2016), il insuffle à la galerie les traits d’un organisme, parcouru de radiateurs reliés entre eux, évoquant les correspondances entre la circulation interne du corps et les infrastructures urbaines. Ces œuvres révèlent que leurs formes organiques ne renvoient pas uniquement au corps humain, mais aussi à des systèmes de circulation — qu’ils soient domestiques, urbains ou biologiques.

Nicolas Deshayes est né à Nancy, France, en 1983. Il vit et travaille à Dover, Kent (États-Unis). Son travail à fait l’objet d’exposition personnelles chez Modern Art, London (2022); Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire (2022); Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers (2021); FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque (2021); E-WERK Luckenwalde (2019); and Tate St Ives (2015). Il a participé à récemment à des expositions collectives au Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2024); Stavanger Art Museum (2023); MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2023); Falmouth Art Gallery (2021); Biennale de Belgrade (2020); Ca’Pesaro, Venise (2019); Museion, Bolzano (2019); Frac Ile-de-France, Bussy-Saint-Martin (2018); Mendes Wood DM, Bruxelles (2017); Drawing Room, Londres (2017); and Fridericianum, Cassel (2015). En 2014, il a été artiste résident à la Tate St Ives. Les œuvres de Nicolas Deshayes sont conservées à la Arts Council Collection, Londres; Stavanger Art Museum; Le Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque; Mona – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart; et à la Tate, Londres.

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Biographie

Presse

Art Review1 avril 2019
Art Monthly1 mars 2019
Something CuratedCharting the Sculptor’s Exploration of Surface, 2 mars 2017
CuraOn the works of Nicolas Deshayes, 1 octobre 2017
Artforum1 décembre 2016
GuardianCast Iron Sculptures Find Beauty in the Repulsive, 9 septembre 2016
FriezePortfolio: Nicolas Deshayes, 1 septembre 2016
Frieze1 janvier 2016
Tate EtcNicolas Deshayes: Tate St Ives Artist in Residence, 1 janvier 2015
KaleidoscopePost-Materiality, 1 juin 2013
CuraVacuum Shaped, 1 octobre 2013
Frieze1 octobre 2012

Biographie

Nicolas Deshayes

Born in Nancy, France, 1983 Lives and works in Dover

Education

2007-2009
MA Sculpture
Royal College of Art, London
2002-2005
BA Sculpture
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo
Thiene, Italy (forthcoming)
The Natural World
Modern Art, London
2024
Relief Works
curated by Sarah McCrory, Monteverdi Gallery, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy
2022
Gargouilles
Modern Art, London
Chambre froideLe Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France
Gargouilles
Emergent, Veurne, Belgium
2021
GargouillesLe Creux de l'Enfer, Thiers, France
GlissementsFRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
2019
Swans
Modern Art, London
Hot SpringsE-Werk fur Kunstrom, Luckenwalde, Germany
2018
LupaBasement Roma, Rome, Italy
2016
Thames Water
Modern Art, London
Battaglia Foundry Sculpture Prize ExhibitionFonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy
2015
Darling, Gutter.Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
Images Moving Out Onto SpaceTate St Ives, Cornwall
Becoming Soil
Jonathan Viner, London
2014
Molars
Independent Projects, Jonathan Viner, New York, NY, USA
2013
Crude Oil
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Snails
Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2012
Slugs
Jonathan Viner, Liste 17, Basel, Switzerland
Browns in Full Colour
Jonathan Viner, London
Vanille (with George Henry Longly)
Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
2011
PRECURSOR
Event Gallery, London
2010
A Killer Whale Breaching in Soft Focus (with Ed Atkins)
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Cultural Wood
Concrete/Hayward Gallery, London
Stiff Peaks
The Two Jonnys’ Project Space, London
2007
Neo
RUN Gallery, London
2006
Noble's Island
MOOT, Nottingham

Expositions collectives

2025
A World of WaterSainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
2024
Sculpture in the Park
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
2023
Modern Art
Paris, France
Eartheaters
Lustwarande, Tilburg, Netherlands
BLINK | Trond Mohn's CollectionStavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
La Retour
Musée régional d’art contemporain (MRAC), Sérignan, France
2022
Radiator019, Ghent, Belgium
2021
Thanks for the Apples
Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
Little Frank and His Carp
Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, London
2020
58th October Salon
Belgrade Biennial, Belgrade, Serbia
RESERVOIR
019 Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Voidpull
Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland
2019
London Art Now, curated by Norman Rosenthal
Ca'Pesaro, Venice, Italy
NOI
Museoin, Bolzano, Italy
RESPAWN
Antoine Levi, Paris, France
Drawing Biennial 2019
Drawing Room, London
2018
Lia Pasqualino Noto, curated by Geraldine Blais
Casa Studio, Palermo, Italy
Tubologie: Nos Vies Dans Les Tubes
FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk, France
Le Paradoxe de L’iceberg
FRAC Ile de France, Chateau de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France
2017
The Hive Mind
Koppel Project Hive, London
Vein Section (Neighbours Vol.6)
Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany
Neither.
Mendes Wood, Brussels, Belgium
Hypokeimenon – En Dessous du Sang
GNF Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Very Into You
29 Percy Street, London
Drawing Biennial 2017
Drawing Room, London
2016
Reconstructive Memory
Galerie Valentin, Paris, France
British Art Show 8
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
Theories of Modern Art
Modern Art, London
Production Show
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
A pudding that endless screw agglomerates
Polish Institute, Berlin, Germany
Use/User/UsedZabludowicz Collection, London
2015
The Ultimate Vessel
Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland
Crab Walk
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
British Art Show 8
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Inhuman
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
English Summer
Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY, USA
Septic Finger
Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Breaking up is Hard to Do
KARST, Plymouth
2014
It Happens Without You
Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, Scotland
Tomorrow: LondonSouth London Gallery, London
On the Devolution of Culture
Rob Tufnell, London
Pool
Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Geographies of Contamination
David Roberts Art Foundation, London
2013
Slip
The Approach, London
The Time Machine, curated by Cura
Frutta Gallery, Rome, Italy
Notes (On Declassing), curated by Vincent Honoré
Galerie Opdhal, Stavanger, Norway
British British Polish Polish, curated by Tom Morton & Marek Gozdziewski
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
£5.34, curated by Jess Flood-Paddock
Carl Freedman Gallery, London
Half Abstract
David Roberts Art Foundation, London
New Order
Saatchi Gallery, London
Out of Memory
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Pop Tarts
James Fuentes, New York, NY, USA
De Puristes et De Fauves
Shanaynay, Paris, France
Relatively AbsoluteWysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old: Contemporary Art and Archaeology from the Stone Age to the Present, curated by Tom Morton
The Collection, Lincoln
Paradise Garage
Eighty One, London
The Glass Show
Jonathan Viner, London
2012
Chimera Q.T.E.
Cell projects, London
Original/Copy II
Peles Empire, London and Cluj, Romania
GLAZE
Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Changing States of Matter
Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Original/Copy III
Peles Empire, Cluj, Romania
Surface to Surface
Jonathan Viner, London
The Starry Rubric SetWysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
A Painting, is a painting is a painting
Rod Barton, London
Hotel Palenque (Nicolas Deshayes)
Galleries Goldstein, London
2011
Like A Rowing Boat Facing the Way You Came
Gallery Vela, London
Rain, curated by Nicolas Deshayes
Cell Project Space, London
GLAZE, curated by George Henry Longly
Bischoff/Weiss, London
The Shape We’re In176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
Keep Floors and Passages Clear
White Columns, New York, NY, USA
2010
2010.101
MOT International, London
Radio IPS
International Project Space, Birmingham
Keep Floors and Passages Clear
One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
A Stranger's Window, curated by MOOT
Nottingham Castle and Museum, Nottingham
Bolton Street
curated by Lucy Chadwick, London
2009
Indoor Life
Walden Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Cornerhouse, Manchester and A Foundation, London Zoo 2009, with MOOT, London
Time is A Sausage
DomoBaal, London
Once In a Lifetime
New Model Army, Peckham Multiplex car park, London
2006
Artists' Choice
Mogadishni CPH, Copenhagen
Year_06 Art projects
Moot, Mary Ward House, London
From There
Bloomberg SPACE, London

Selected Collections

E-WERK Luckenwalde
Luckenwalde, Germany
FRAC des Pays de la Loire
Nantes, France
FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France
Dunkirk, France
MONA – Museum of Old and New Art
Hobart, Australia
Stavanger Art Museum
Stavanger, Norway
TateLondon
Glissements, Frac Grand Large, Dunkirk, France, 2021–2022
Glissements, Frac Grand Large, Dunkirk, France, 2021–2022
Glissements, Frac Grand Large, Dunkirk, France, 2021–2022
The Natural World, 2025
glazed earthenware, 37 x 100 x 73 cm, 14 5/8 x 39 3/8 x 28 3/4 in
1/2
Nude, 2025
glazed earthenware, 20 x 60 x 35 cm, 7 7/8 x 23 5/8 x 13 3/4 in
1/3
Moth, 2025
glazed earthenware, 27 x 27 x 21 cm, 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in
1/2
Opera House, 2025
glazed earthenware, 40 x 62.5 x 10.5 cm, 15 3/4 x 24 5/8 x 4 1/8 in
1/3
Gargouille, 2021
patinated bronze, 11 x 28.7 x 17 cm, 4 3/8 x 11 1/4 x 6 3/4 in
Gargouille, 2021
patinated bronze, 12 x 32 x 21 cm, 4 3/4 x 12 5/8 x 8 1/4 in
1/2
Gargouille, 2022
patinated bronze, 35 x 30 x 14 cm, 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 5 1/2 in
1/2
La Laitière, 2019
glazed earthenware, 45 x 32.5 x 7 cm, 17 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 2 3/4 in
1/2
Swans, 2017
glazed slip-cast earthenware, each: 48 x 24.3 x 11.7 cm, 18 7/8 x 9 5/8 x 4 5/8 in
1/3
Sugar Mile, 2018
cast aluminium, stainless steel and water, 225 x 82 x 6 cm, 88 5/8 x 32 1/4 x 2 3/8 ins
1/4
Paquerette, 2019
glazed earthenware, 43 x 31.5 x 8.5 cm, 16 7/8 x 12 3/8 x 3 3/8 in
1/2
Spud, 2018
glazed slip-cast earthenware, 52 x 37 x 15 cm, 20 1/2 x 14 5/8 x 5 7/8 in
1/2
Dolomite, 2019
glazed earthenware, 49 x 32 x 8 cm, 19 1/4 x 12 5/8 x 3 1/8 in
1/2
Dear Polyp, 2016
anodised aluminium, powder-coated aluminium, vacuum-formed plastic, neoprene foam, 200 x 160 x 10 cm, 78 3/4 x 63 x 4 in
1/2
Thames Water, 2016
cast iron, hot water, 116 x 213 x 7.5 cm, 45 5/8 x 83 7/8 x 3 in
1/3
Molars, 2015
screenprinted and hand-applied vitreous enamel on steel, aluminium, and frame, 67 x 252 x 4 cm, 26 3/8 x 99 1/4 x 1 5/8 in
1/2
Darling, Gutter, 2015
Jesmonite, plastic, brass, steel, hot water, 120.5 x 193.5 x 20 cm, 47 1/2 x 76 1/8 x 7 7/8 in
1/3
Brow, 2018
glazed slip-cast earthenware, 6 x 31 x 20 cm, 2 3/8 x 12 1/4 x 7 7/8 in
Swans, Modern Art 2019
1/4
Victoria Greenhouses, Botanical Garden, Ghent, Belgium, 2021
Gargamel, 2021