Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel
Daniel Dewar born 1976 in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom. Grégory Gicquel born 1975 in St. Brieuc, France.
British-French artist duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel are known for their works that explore the relationship between labor and production, and the blurring boundaries between animate and inanimate realms. Their multidisciplinary practice incorporates traditional craft techniques and classical sculpture, and engages with manufacturing processes that have become less visible in the age of automation. Through their practice, which incorporates clay, ceramics, stone, wood, and textiles, Dewar and Gicquel blur the boundaries between functionality, decoration, and the aura of the autonomous artwork. Their works have been exhibited internationally at the MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, the Culturgest, Lisbon; the Secession, Vienna; the Van Buuren Museum & Gardens, Brussels; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; the Biennale de Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon; the Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; the Portikus, Frankfurt; the Witte de With, Rotterdam; Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; the Musée Rodin, Paris; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; CAPC, Bordeaux and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. In 2012, they were the recipients of the Prix Marcel Duchamp.
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Daniel Dewar Lives and Works in Brussels, Belgium Born 1976 in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom
Grégory Gicquel Lives and Works in Plevenon, France Born 1975 in St. Brieuc, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Coquilles et feuilles de choux, Palais Jacques Cœur, Bourges The Weaver and the Spoke, Antenna Space, Shanghai
2023 The Bidet and the Jar, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome The Needle and the Chisel, Clearing, Brussels
2022 Oiled Oak Bodies and Cinnabar Stitches, Jan Kaps, Cologne The Nude and the Wood, Culturgest, Lisbon Interspecific Bodies, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo
2021 Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Secession, Vienna Wings, Petals, Toes, Clearing, Beverly Hills
2020 Nudes, Van Buuren Museum & Gardens, Brussels Animals and Sculpture, Clearing, Brussels
2019 Fantasmes Mammifères, Biennale de Lyon - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon Mammalian Fantasies, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Body of Work, Jan Kaps, Cologne L'eau des Limbes, Galerie Raymond Hains, Saint-Brieuc
2018 Rosa Aurora Rosa, Clearing, New York
2017 The Mammal and The Sap, Portikus, Frankfurt Le Nu et la roche, HAB Galerie, Nantes The Nude and The Sap, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2016 Stoneware Murals, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, Stoneware Murals and Vessels, Tapestries and Wood Carvings, Jan Kaps, Cologne Digitalis, Kiosk, Ghent
2015 Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Front Desk Apparatus, New York Stoneware Murals, Ètablissement d'en Face, Brussels
2014 Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels La Jeune Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris
2013 Le Hall, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris Jus d'Orange, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Mr. I / Dewar & Gicquel, Graff Mourgue d'Algue, Geneva
2012 Crepe Suzette, Spike Island, Bristol
2011 Sculptures sur Bois, Tapisseries et Céramique, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2008 Mason Massacre, Les Collections de St. Cyprien, St. Cyprien
2007 FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen Chapelle du Geneteil, Centre d'art Contemporain, Chateau-Gontier, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2006 Hazelnut Cottage, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris Strike a pose, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne Ukiyo-e, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou Driving in Abyss Behind a 2 Big Tits Lorry Truck Truck Mental Ray, École municipale des Beaux-arts / Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers
2004 (Da) Heavy Duty Self Made Material Boy Hardware Store, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2003 Scierie Echo PKK, Public, Paris
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Keep See, Keep Seeing, G Museum, Nanjing
2023 House of Dreamers, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels Maiden Voyage, Clearing, New York The Memory Palace curated by Daria de Beauvais, Art Safari, Bucharest
2022 On Display, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2021 Les Flammes, L'Age de la céramique, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris Boy Vereecken - Back Matter, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome Models & Types, Office KGDVS, Brussels Out here in the wild oats amid the alien corn, Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark, Dusseldorf Often Vary Never Change, CLEARING, New York Portraiture One Century Apart, Massimo de Carlo, London Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo La diosa verde reloaded, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan Grand Ménage, Clearing, Paris On Display, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris Stoneware for a dwelling, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam Life on planet Orsimanirana, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
2020 The Secret Life Of Lobsters, Clearing, Brussels Genève Sculpture Garden, Geneva Biennale, Genève Body. Gaze. Power. A cultural history of the bath, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Life Still, Clearing, New York Anima Mundi, Abbaye Saint-Victor, Marseille
2019 Indus 2, Art Concept, Paris La Déesse Verte (curated by Dorothée Dupuis), El Dorado at Lille3000, Lille L'âge de raison, Clearing, Brussels
2018 Glaise Rousse (curated by Joël Riff), Moly-Sabata, Sablons Weaving / Braiding . . . when the sculpture scrolls, Villa Datris Foundation, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Sculpter (faire à l’atelier), La Criée, Rennes
2017 The Absent Museum, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
2016 Pastoral Myths, La Loge, Brussels Figuration 1996 - 2016, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö A Scratching Not a Biting, Bureau, New York
2015 Words Aren't the Thing, CAC Vilnius Invitation au Voyage, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels Deep Screen, Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux
2014 Petals On the Wind, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels Play Time, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d'art Contemporaine, Rennes
2013 Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara I Know You, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2012 Lost in LA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles Prix Marcel Duchamp, Grand Palais, Paris La Demeure Joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich Conjuring for Beginners, Project Arts Space, Dublin Manufacture, Centre Pasquart, Bienne
2011 Manufacture II, John Hansard Gallery, Southamptoon Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art & NYK Waterfront Warehouse, Yokohama Manufacture, Parc Saint-Léger, Centre d'art Contemporain, Pougues-Les-Eaux Estate of Robert Filliou - Bob and Breakfast, Robert Filliou es ses invités par Francois Curlet, Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris Making is Thinking, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2010 Nos Meilleurs Souvenirs, Expérience Pommery #8, Domaine Pommer, Reims Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris / ARC, Paris Unto This Last, Raven Row, London
2009 La Force de l'art 02, Grand Palais, Paris Le Travail de la Rivière, La Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine Pragmatismus & Romantismus, Fondation d'Enterprise Ricard, Paris
2008 Chateau de Tokyo - Palais de Fontainebleau, Chatuea de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau Less is Less, More is More, That's All!, CAPC, Bordeaux La Chute d'Eau, Circuit, LausanneE
2007 Hamsterwheel, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse Ultramoderne, Nausbaum & Reding Art Contemporaine, Luxembourg New Economy, Artists Space, New York
2006 Suites Baroques, Les Instants Chaivrés, Montreuil Supernova. Expérience Pommery #3, Domaine Pommery, Reims Hradacany, La Générale, Paris