Together with Cariou Project, I am showing Tony Valentine at the OECD headquarters in Paris March 19th – April 19th, 2013.
Painter and sculptor, born in 1939 in Edinburgh, Tony Valentine graduated from the Edinburgh
and Glasgow School of Fine Arts, moved to France in 1968, and is now
living and working in Maintenon.
In a communion of spirit with Samuel
Beckett, his large oil paintings on wood, drawings on paper, and wooden
sculptures feature the all-encompassing female figure of Alice in
Wonderland and the contemplative landscapes and volcanoes of his
Scottish childhood, in a mix of obsession, desperation and humour.
He
has exhibited with Cariou Project at the Cutlog art fair in Paris in
2010 and 2011, in Vichy in 2006 and 2008, at La Maison
des Singuliers, Thomas Leguillou, the Salon du Dessin 2009 in Paris, in Guyancourt, Vesoul,
Rouen, Chartre, Edinburgh, Sussex University, Glasgow, Dreux, at the
Musée Rignault in St Cirq-Lapopie, Lyons, Besançon...
His works
have been acquired by the public collections of the College of Fine
Arts, the Scottish Arts Club, and the Collection Richard Demarco in
Edinburgh, the Glasgow School of Fine Arts, in France the city halls of
Vesoul and Guyancourt, the Musée des Musiques Populaires of Montluçon
and the Musée Regnault of Saint Circ La Popye.
« I use the name of Alice as a constant reference to Alice in Wonderland, in the sense that what is really marvelous to my eyes is equally atrocious and unlivable. » - Tony Valentine
Portrait d'une Alice - 2012
Springtime for Alice - 2012
Brand New Alice - 2012
Alice and Two Figures - 2012
Alice Group - 2011
Artificial Alice - 2013
Black Alice - 2012
All 220x120cm, acrylic on wood.