Ronan Barrot
Carpentras, France
45 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Paris, France
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Works by Ronan Barrot
Ronan Barrot, born in 1973, is a painter. He entered the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1991 and graduated in 1997 with honours. In 2001, the Trafic gallery discovered his work and organised his first solo exhibition, "Cataracts". In 2006, he exhibited his paintings at the Marc Chagall Museum in Nice. Since 2007, the Claude Bernard Gallery has represented him. The gallery has given him numerous group and solo exhibitions and has presented his work at numerous events (FIAC, BRAFA, ArtParis) and in other galleries. Many of his works, which are already in important private collections in France and abroad, are now in those of national museums: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg, Fondation MAEGHT in Saint Paul de Vence, FRAC Île-de-France-Le Plateau, FRAC Auvergne, etc.
Ronan Barrot acknowledges some deep influences: among others, Goya and Courbet, from whom he derives his material, his light, his play of reinvented colour and his passion for the contrast of dark and light colours. At once a portraitist, a landscape painter and a painter of vanities, sometimes nostalgic, always visionary, sometimes illusionist, he masters all the genres, which he intermingles with bravado but always with accuracy. An artist as classical as he is contemporary, Ronan Barrot is a standout at a time when art is turning mainly to the conceptual side. He owns the history of art - and his work bears witness to this - right down to its smallest corners. As an artist whose preferred medium, oil, would fit into the category of "figurative" art, he in fact submits to the viewer, through the apparent subject matter of his canvas, a multitude of possibilities of interpretation, to which the terms "realist", "utopian", "surrealist", or even "abstract" could then be applied.
Because he never forgets the homage he owes to the old masters, because he never neglects the mythology on which so many of their works are based and which so many contemporary artists have forgotten today, his work acquires a dimension that is as powerful as it is learned.
EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES 2021
Ronan Barrot, Comme une rétrospective, Galerie 21Contemporary, Nice 2018
Ronan Barrot, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris 2017
FESTIVAL D'AVIGNON, Eglise des Célestins, Avignon
2016
ART PARIS, stand de la Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
2014
Pendant la répétition, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris 2013
Escande, Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans (Catalogue) 2012
Escande, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Louis-Senlecq de L’Isle-Adam (Catalogue) 2010
Ronan Barrot, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (Catalogue)
2009
Ronan Barrot, Espace Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis (Catalogue ART PARIS, Stand de la Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris ARTE FIERA Bologna, Stand de la Galerie Claude Bernard, Bologne
2007
Peintures, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (Catalogue)
2006
Peintures, Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice (Catalogue) Paris, Galerie Eric Mircher, Paris
2005
À la française, Galerie Trafic, Ivry-sur-Seine
2004
Le Seuil, Notre Dame de la Sagesse, Paris
2003
Au Manoir, Cologny, Genève
Hors-Série, Galerie Trafic, Ivry-sur-Seine (Catalogue)
Paysages, Espace Jean Boucher, Cesson-Sévigné (Catalogue)
2002
Paysages, Galerie La Tour des Cardinaux, Marseille 2001
Cataractes, Galerie Trafic, Ivry-sur-Seine 2000
Peintures, Galerie R.Y.Carrat, Paris 1999
Vanités, La Poudrière, Ile d’Arun
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2020
Barrot, Tracandi, Monfleur, Librairie Métamorphoses, Paris La Méditéranée, Clichy, Poush MANIFESTO
2020
BRAFA, à TOUR & TAXIS, Bruxelles - Stand de la Galerie Claude Bernard
2019
Barrat/Barrot, Infinite Skulls, Avant Galerie Vossen, Paris
2014
L'Accrochage, Résidence du Consul de France, Rio de Janeiro
2013
ART PARIS, Grand Palais, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
L’Arbre qui ne meurt jamais, Théatre des Sablons, Neuilly-sur-Seine
E-motion - Collection Bernard Massini, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
2012
ART PARIS, Grand Palais, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris La belle peinture est derrière nous, Lieu unique, Nantes
2011
Ronan Barrot et Denis Monfleur (Catalogue), Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
A glimpse of French Contemporary Painting, Macau (Catalogue)
2010
C’est la vie ! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Paris (Catalogue) L’œil à l’état sauvage, collection Jean-Claude Volot, Crypte Sainte-Eugénie, Biarritz (Catalogue)
Collection 3, peinture et dessin dans la collection Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, (Catalogue)
La belle peinture est derrière nous, Sanat Limani-Entrepot 5, Istanbul 2009
Animal Hits, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Genève
2008
ARTE FIERA Bologna, accrochage de groupe, Stand de la Galerie Claude Bernard, Bologne
Accrochage de groupe, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Silhouettes, Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan
2007
De leur temps, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
ART PARIS, Grand Palais, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
2006
FIAC, Stand de la Galerie Claude Bernard avec les artistes E. Steinberg et P. Edouard, Paris
La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris (Catalogue)
Exposition Antoine Marin, Espace municipal, Arcueil
Barrot Pencréac’h Picasso, Musée national Picasso La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris
2005
FIAC, Stand de la Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Scope Art Fair, Galerie Eric Mircher, Londres
My favorite things, Musée d’Art contemporain, Lyon (Catalogue) Léda, Galerie Trafic, Ivry-sur-Seine (Catalogue)
2004
Barrot et Pencréac’h, Espace privé, Marseille
2002
Un cabinet d’amateur, Galerie Trafic, Ivry sur Seine
2000
Le voile de Véronique, Église de Saint Séverin, Paris
1999
Le voile de Véronique, Galerie Saint Séverin, Paris Action directe, Espace privé, Paris
COLLECTIONS PUBLIQUES ET PRIVEES
Musées d’Art Moderne de Paris
Musées d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg FRAC Ile de France-Le Plateau
FRAC Auvergne
Fondation Maeght
Collection Salomon, Alex
Collection Jean-Claude Volot, Abbaye d’Auberive
- Ronan Barrot, manifestement, Richard Leydier, artpress, no 331, 02/2007
- Ronan Barrot, by Richard Leydier, éd. de la galerie Claude Bernard, 03/2007
- Ronan Barrot, by Philippe Dagen, Éditions de Saint-Louis, 2009
- Ronan Barrot, by Michel C. Thomas, éd. de la galerie Claude Bernard, 09/2010
- Ronan Barrot, peintre brûlant, Thomas A Ravier, artpress, no 374 01/2011
- Ronan Barrot, Denis Monfleur, by Eric Darragon, éd. de la galerie Claude Bernard, 2011
- Escande, Ronan Barrot, Peintures, by Paul Audi, éd. Schnoeck, 2012
- Ronan Barrot : le mouvement et la lumière, Eric Vuillard, Les Lettres françaises, 02/05/2013
- L'Escande - Ronan Barrot peintures, catalogue of the museum of art and history Louis Senlecq à L’Isle-Adam, Paul Audi, Editions Snoeck
- Ronan Barrot, - Pendant la répétition - by Éric Vuillard, éd. de la galerie Claude Bernard, 2014
- La Trame du Monde - Barrot, Monfleur, Tracandi - catalogue, Librairie Métamorphoses, 2020.