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YVES BELORGEY
1960
France
Born in Sens, France
Lives and works in Montreuil, France
Aftergraduating in law and art history, Yves Bélorgey turned to painting as a career.Intrigued by the landscapes around him and the potential of painting torepresent those landscapes, it was during a stay in Germany in 1986 and againin 1991 that his decision to devote his canvasses entirely to housing blocksfirst emerged. On his return to France, he focused his work on the urban buildingson the outskirts of Paris built between the 1950s and the 1970s. Hisinspiration and subject matter, his paintings and their autobiographicalundertones are intended to capture the multifaceted reality of those buildings.As well as several canvasses of the Mirail project in Toulouse, Yves Bélorgey’soeuvre includes a large number of paintings and drawings covering the projectsof urban architect, Jean Renaudie, in Yvry-sur-Seine and Givors. The artist’swork also covers similar themes in Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
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