BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Michaël Biquet's work is multi-faceted and multifaceted, a fact that must be seen in the context of his training and his open-mindedness and curiosity. To understand his multifaceted work, we need to take into account his background, which combines training as an ornamental painter with a talent for easel painting.
In addition to discovering the artist, this site highlights the inextricable link between ornamental painting, intended to sublimate an interior, and easel painting.
The great debate about the supposed opposition between art and craft is reignited here. Like the ymagiers of the Middle Ages and the ornamentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, Michael Biquet demonstrates with great modernity that both tend towards the same goal:
that of transcending our daily lives, revealing the beauty of objects and animate beings through the inextinguishable will to paint.
The artist uses the same vocabulary in both cases, adapting his pictorial intent by means of a different syntax. Like his predecessors, he draws on the experience he has acquired on walls to apply it to canvas, and vice versa. A constant dialogue is established between these two poles of his work, but always with the same unwavering determination.
The paintings presented here date from different periods in the artist's career, and reflect the evolution of his concepts, which have matured over the course of his many international projects as much as his personal development.
Born in Schaerbeek (Brussels-Capital Region), Belgium, in 1978, Michaël Biquet began painting in his teens. His most popular subjects are animal portraits, for which he displays a natural talent.
He began his artistic training in Brussels in 1997 at the Ecole de Recherches Graphiques and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, before moving on to the Institut Supérieur Van Der Kelen, where he studied material copying and trompe-lœil.
In 2001, he moved to Paris and began his first private decorating projects, expressing his talent as an ornamental painter to his customers. He perfected his skills by training at Christies Education Paris, before taking charcoal courses at the Academy of Art in Florence in 2003. Now working for the famous ornamental painting house Mériguet, or through his own company, which he set up in 2010, he has taken part in major projects in France and abroad, collaborating with such decorating greats as Jacques Grange and Juan Pablo Molyneux.
These include sets for Leon David Black's apartment in New York, an ensemble for the Worms bank in London, and prestigious projects in Palm Beach.
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