Antoine Desailly is an artist who lives and works in Aubervilliers, France. Desailly explores the repetitive but evolutionary character of the image within the areas of drawing, painting and installation. The artist’s focus on detail is core to his work, elucidating further on the relationship between perception and illusion.

Desailly’s series of 26 drawings portray everything from trash cans systematically set side by side, hoses that twist around each other, boarded-up windows and telephone lines that stretch across an almost barren landscape. His paintings are larger in scale but continue to capture a similar appearance. Puits de Pétrole (2010) features a swath of oil rigs lifting and lowering into the ground while the two-panelled piece Bidonville (2012) reflects a densely populated shanty-town. 60 Peintures de Déchets(2012) captures exactly that, throwaway objects. Desailly transformed his drawings into a large installation titled Agglomérat (2012) that features illustrated pieces of wood, affixed together that imply a rough-hewn surface. This particular installation was preceded by an earlier one titled, Cabane (2011).

Since 2003 Antoine Desailly’s art has been exhibited widely throughout France, Belgium, Budapest, Belgrade and Serbia. In 2008 Galerie Premier Regard hosted a solo show of his work titled Flaques. In 2009 Galerie Catherine et André Hug in Paris included Desailly’s art in the group show titled L’Overture. The Galerie Municipale de Vitry sur Seine and Atelier Martin Bourdanove also featured work by Desailly. Most recently the artist was included in the group show titled Drawing Now that was held at the Carrousel du Louvre with the Galerie Bernard Jordan in Paris as well as in Argus that appeared at the Ateliers du pré located at Pré st Gervais.

Contact Desailly via email, antoine [dot] desailly [at] gmail.com