Romain Froquet

Romain Froquet is a french artist, born in 1982 in Villeurbanne (Fr). He lives and works in Paris.

The works of Romain Froquet are an invitation to the fantasy and the uniqueness of a universe stemming from his own subconscious. Froquet, a self-taught artist directs his passion for drawing to diverse mediums without prejudice. He is as comfortable painting on an easel, or on the street enveloping the walls of lost dismal areas of town or creating site specific installations. He wishes to express himself with or without a public sometimes choosing obscure urban areas to dress the walls with his delicate tree like representations that bring color and joy to an otherwise gloomy background. The surface is of no importance nor the visibility of his installations, here he presents himself as an ephemeral artist and as a performer —it is his process that becomes paramount not the actual public display.

Froquet’s work is a condensation of complexities. His constant struggle to conciliate the abstract with the figurative pushes him to an almost surreal state of mind whereby the completion of the artwork is no longer the primary goal but the vehicle to an ulterior motive. This finale for which he perseveres becomes a lifeboat that transports him constantly to new experimentation. Each new drawing, painting or ephemeral intervention becomes the relic that documents and preserves research, gesture and experience. Tormented by his desire for freedom from the classical rigors which are revealed in the colorful manga drawings he delicately marries to primitive African stylizations of figurative elements. Froquet remains however faithful to the exactitude and perfection dictated by architectures and spacial relations. His mood, his inspiration and the constant need for gesture, line and continual movement recall the nervous and excited abstractions of Pollock and Riopelle.

References abound in the artworks created by this young autodidact with an old soul. It is Arshile Gorky’s work however that I can see most clearly impregnated in his stroke. Gorky insisted on projecting ideas from his past and personal history through a novel technique at a time period when all seemed to have been said in abstraction. He was unafraid to reference and to reinvent past styles and strokes of his contemporaries such as Pollock and De Kooning. He clearly stated his mindset in his many quotes. " Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with this eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into the unknown areas."

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2020

LIGNÉES, Pavillon Carréde Baudouin,Париж

2019

MÊME À SEC LA RIVIERE GARDE SON NOM, ГалереяJoël Knafo, Париж, Франция

2018

THE NATURE OF MAGNETISM, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia

URBAN ART FAIR SOLO SHOWS, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

ABOVE THE LINE, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

2017

EXPOSITION PERSONNELLE, Les Cadres Gault, Genève, Switzerland

LUNAIRE, Galerie Artistik Rezo, Paris, France

2016

CINNAMON, Galerie Art&Craft, Paris, France

ATȎMES, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia

HIGHWAY, Espace ArtAsia Paris, France

BOHEMIA, Galerie NUNC !, Grenoble, France

2015

HÉMISPHÈRE, Galerie Clémouchka, Lyon, France

GESTURE AND LINE,  Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Houston, USA

2014 

EXPOSITION PERSONNELLE, Les Cadres Gault, Genève, Switzerland

RACINES, Road Art Gallery, Marseille, France

2013 

RACINES, Galerie L’Espace, Dijon, France

2012 

AMBIVALENCE, Galerie L’Espace, Dijon, France

EMPREINTE, XOYO Gallery, London, UK

EMPREINTE, H2 Basement Gallery, Paris, France

2009 

FILIGRANE, l’Arrière Boutique, Paris, France

GROUP PROJECTS

2019

SCOPE, ASKERI GALLERY, Майами, США

LA STREET FRANÇAISE, L’épicerie Fine, Hong kong, China

8E AVENUE, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

COSMOSCOW, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia

COLLECTIVE, Galerie Urbaine, Uzès, France

CONQUÊTE URBAINE, Musée des beaux Arts de Calais , Paris

K-LIBRE, Le Réservoir, Sète, France

URBAN ART FAIR, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

URBAN ART FAIR, Galerie Artistik Rezo, Paris, France

CONQUÊTE URBAINE, Musée des beaux Arts de Calais, Calais, France | Curated by Mathilde et Gautier Jourdain

2018

GRACIOUS ART, ASKERI GALLERY, Moscow, Russia

ARСH MOSCOW, Moscow, Russia

VARIATIONS, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

LEGENDES URBAINES, Base sous Marine, Bordeaux, France | Curated by Nicolas Laugero Lasserre

URBAN ART FAIR, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

URBAN ART FAIR, Galerie Artistik Rezo, Paris, France

FOIRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, Lille, France| Curated by Galerie Joël Knafo

2017

URBAN LEGENDS, Sagamore Hotel, Miami, USA | Curated by Sébastien Laboureau

8^E AVENUE, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

BIRTHDAY, Galerie Ground Effect, Paris, France

URBAN ARTWOOD, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

NOCTURNE RIVE DROITE, Les Cadres Gault, Paris, France

URBAN ART FAIR, Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris, France

URBAN ART FAIR, Galerie Artistik Rezo, Paris, France

COLLECTIVE, Galerie NUNC !, Paris, France  

FRENCH PAVILLON, Houston, USA | Curated by Yvonamor Palix

2016

25 ANS DE CRÉATION COLLECTIVE, Le Flow, Lille, France | 9^ème Concept

L’USINE FANTASTIQUE, Puces de Saint-Ouen, Paris, France | Curated by Marie Dufour

STROKAR, Bruxelles, Belgium

2015

RESIDENCE AVANT DESTRUCTION, Galerie Brugier Rigai, Paris, France | Curated by Stéphane Carricondo

MUTATION, Galerie Art&Craft, Paris, France  | Curated by Vincent Tiercin

CHILD FOR CARE, Piasa, Paris, France | Curated by France Inde Karnataka

PARCOURS AUCWIN, Galerie Amarrage, Saint-Ouent, France | Curated by Jungle / J.Romain 

SEULES LES TRACES FONT RÊVER, 29 Maubourg, Paris, France | Curated by G.Bloch / F.Allègre

LA VILLE CONTINENT, Omniparis, Paris, France | Curated by Val Dan

2014 

FREEDOM, Wynwood, Miami, USA

AVANT DESTRUCTION, Musée Carré Bonnat, Bayonne, France | Curated by Christelle Vessot

UNDEFINED, 6B, Saint-Denis, France | Curated by Joachim Romain & Jungle

25^EME ETAGE, Tour Pleyel, Saint-Denis, France | Curated by Stephane Carricondo

METAMORPHOSE, Obliq, Paris, France

FRENCH STREET ART, Galerie Mines d’Art, Genève, Switzerland| Curated by Frédéric Claquin

2013

LA NOCTURNE RIVE DROITE, Les Cadres Gault, Paris, France | Curated by Vincent Tiercin

DRAWING IS NOT A CRIME, Galerie du Pont Neuf, Paris, France | Curated by Frédéric Claquin

OPEN THE DOOR, Houston, USA | Co-curator with Karine Parker-Lemoyne & TFAA

LES BAINS, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France | Curated by Magda Danysz

2012

TOUS LES CHEMINS MENENT A MARSEILLE, Road Art Gallery, Marseille, France

URBAN DECAY, Ravi Gallery, Hyderabad, India | Curated by Rahul Mitra

FRESH, Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Houston, USA | Curated by Yvonamor Palix

SUR PAPIER, Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Houston, USA | Curated by Yvonamor Palix

2011

GO WEST, UNESCO, Paris / Williams tower, Houston, USA | Curated by Karine Parker-Lemoyne

PERMIS DE CONSTRUIRE, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France | Curated by 9^ème concept

2010

LE MUR, Espace des Blancs manteaux, Paris, France | Curated by Le Mur

2009

IMAGINE, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | Co-curator with 9^ème concept

SCRATCH PAPER, l’Arrière Boutique, Paris, France | Curated by 9^ème concept

2007

COLLECTORS, La Belleviloise, Paris, France | Curated by 9^ème concept

2005

SANG 9, Galeria la Santa, Barcelona, Spain | Curated by 9^ème concept

2004

SANG 9, Centre d’art en l’île, Genèva, Switzerland | Curated by 9^ème concept

SANG 9, MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, France | Curated by 9^ème concept

COMME A LA MAISON, The Lazy dog, Paris, France | Curated by Romuald Stivine

SALON DE COMPARAISON, Paris, France

2003

SANG 9, Kitchen 93 gallery, Paris, France | Curated by Rosaline Fay-Boehlinger

2002

LE LABYRINTHE, Anglet, France | Curated by 9^ème concept

SANG 9, Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France | Curated by Magda Danysz

IN SITU

2019

MURS MURS FESTIVAL, Decazeville, France | Curated by Amélie et JoDibona

LE CLOS DU CHÊNE, Montévrain, France | Curated by Speedy Graphito

CONQUÊTE URBAINE, Musée des Beaux Arts de Calais, Calais, France | Curated by Mathilde et Gautier Jourdain

FUSION, Icart, Paris, France | Curated by Nicolas Laugero Lasserre

2018

PLAYGROUND DES HALLES, Paris, France | Curated by Mairie de Paris

TREES, Savigny-le-Temple, France | Curated by Paris Grand Sud

MARSEILLE STREET ART SHOW, France | Curated by Galerie Saint Laurent

RAINBOW, Bonneuil sur Marne, France | Stuart Magazine

HOTEL MERCURE MONTMARTRE, Paris, France

ANAMORPHOSE, VENTE PRIVEE, Paris, France | Curated by Nicolas Laugero Lasserre

VITRINE DU PRINTEMPS DE LA FEMME, Paris, France | Le Printemps

NATURALIA BOULOGNE, Paris, France

2017

CROSSROADS, Wynwood, Miami, USA | Fabien Castanier Gallery wall

LE MUR BORDEAUX, France | Curated by Pierre Lecaroz

HISTOIRES URBAINES 0.1, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France | Curated by Galerie 36^e Art

QUARTIER DES ORMES, Igny, France | Curated by France Habitation

LA MAISON RE-GENERATION, Lyon, France | Curated by Madame Chat

HOTEL CITIZEN, Paris, France

‘VESNA’ TRADE CENTER (BOSCO DI CILIEGI), Moscow, Russia | Curated by Polina Askeri and Igor Kazakov

LE PRINTEMPS DE L’HOMME, Paris, France | Curated by B.Laumaillé et F.Banchet

2016

BIBLIOTHÈQUE AIMÉ CÉSAIRE, Paris, France

LES MONDES SOUTERRAINS, Art 42, Paris, France | Curated by Nicolas Laugero Lasserre

RADIOGRAPHIK, La Maison de la Radio, Paris, France | Curated by Artazoï and Lek

K-LIVE, Sète, France

ART42, Musée d’Art Ubain, Paris, France | Curated by Nicolas Laugero Lasserre

SQUARE SAINT-ELOI, Paris, France | Curated by Association Cicero

LE MUR CHERBOURG, France

LE MUR DE L’ÂGE D’OR, Paris, France

FRANCS COLLEURS, France

HOTEL NEGRE COSTE, Aix en Provence, France

NATURALIA, Paris, France

2015

SAWGRASS GROUND HOTEL, Miami, USA

STUDIO 13-16 CENTRE GEORGE POMPIDOU, Paris, France | Curated by Martin Bourguignat

AUX TABLEAUX, Marseille, France | Curated by A.D’Alessio et Juxtapoz

150 ANS DU PRINTEMPS, Paris, France | Curated by B.Laumaillé et F.Banchet

AUCWIN, Saint Denis, France | Curated by J.Romain et Jungle

MUR DU SQUARE KARCHER, Paris, France | Curated by Artazoi

KIOSQUE, Bagneux, France | France Habitation et Apes

2014

TREES, Wynwood, Miami, USA

THE CARGO SPACE, Rice University, Houston, USA | Curated by Christopher Sperandio

L’ETÉ AU CANAL, Seine Saint Denis, France | Curated by Artazoi

MONTPELLIER FAIT LE MUR, Montpellier, France | Curated by Coralie Meunier

2013

GENESIS, Lycée du Nivolet, Chambéry, France

LE M.U.R, Marseille, France | Curated by Juxtapoz

2012

MAIN STREET PROJECTS, with Rahul Mitra, Houston, USA

LA MAIN DE L’HOMME, Central 7, Nyoiseau, France

2011

INSTALLATION, with Clemens Behr, Bagnolet, France

CO-BRANDING | ARTIST EDITION

2019 SUSHI SHOP

2013 ROSSIGNOL

2012 HAVILAND

2011 F.S.T HANDWEAR

2010 COACH

2009 DESPERADOS