Julien Audebert

Julien Audebert

BornNationalityBased In
1977FrenchParis
Biography

Born in 1977 in Brive La Gaillarde, Julien Audebert lives and works in Paris. Whether it be cinema or photography, History is a central subject in his work. It is dialecticized, reconstructed or exhumed, through processes from which emerges the ideology underlying the dominant cultural forms (cinema, media, literature, pictorial genres…) His works often materialize a point of tension or climax of a political or military nature where geographical variables play a particular role. Since 2019, Julien Audebert has been painting and working on a a series of small works with oil on copper. His most recent series, Obsidionales, consists of small oil paintings on copper following his large-scale battlefield “Nocturnes” (and his recent film Mars and Venus …). These exogenous “flowers of war” moved by the soles of soldiers, railroad or horses, are painted, centred in the middle of the frame, as a child would do, done alla prima (a technique imposed by the adhesion on the copper). This series also explicitly evokes Flemish and French genre painting of the 17th century, used for decorative or votive purposes. These works, like his recent aquarium paintings (Eden…), place creates conflagration between the subject and an often invisible historical underpinning. ...

Selected Artworks
Le Tribut (crépidules)
Julien Audebert
Le Tribut (crépidules), 2021
35 x 35 x 1cm
Mars & Vénus, phases d’opposition
Julien Audebert
Mars & Vénus, phases d’opposition, 2016
Obsidionale (Potentille droite)
Julien Audebert
Obsidionale (Potentille droite), 2020
18 x 15cm
Obsidionale (Châtaignier)
Julien Audebert
Obsidionale (Châtaignier), 2020
18 x 15cm
Le chariot de Mars
Julien Audebert
Le chariot de Mars, 2018
120 x 324cm
EST/OUEST
Julien Audebert
EST/OUEST, 2012
105 x 390cm
Royal Albert Hall
Julien Audebert
Royal Albert Hall, 2005
57 x 200cm
Danse américaine
Julien Audebert
Danse américaine, 2015
32 x 213cm
La règle du jeu
Julien Audebert
La règle du jeu, 2008
57 x 77cm
Inclusion (1798)
Julien Audebert
Inclusion (1798), 2020
17 x 12cm
Obsidionale (Brome à balais)
Julien Audebert
Obsidionale (Brome à balais), 2020
18 x 15cm
La nuit du monde (Dounia)
Julien Audebert
La nuit du monde (Dounia), 2023
40 x 40cm
La nuit du monde (Léonie)
Julien Audebert
La nuit du monde (Léonie), 2023
40 x 40cm
La nuit du monde (Loris)
Julien Audebert
La nuit du monde (Loris), 2023
40 x 40cm
La nuit du monde (Luc)
Julien Audebert
La nuit du monde (Luc), 2023
40 x 40cm
La nuit du monde (Marie-Lise)
Julien Audebert
La nuit du monde (Marie-Lise), 2023
40 x 40cm
La nuit du monde (Nadège)
Julien Audebert
La nuit du monde (Nadège), 2023
40 x 40cm
La nuit du monde (René)
Julien Audebert
La nuit du monde (René), 2023
40 x 40cm
Premier feu
Julien Audebert
Premier feu, 2021
19 x 23.2cm
Gallery Representation
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