Olivier Millagou

Olivier Millagou

BornNationalityBased In
1974FrenchSanary-sur-Mer.
Biography

There is undeniably something that has to do with lifestyle in the art of Olivier Millagou, a straightforward attitude, like a relation to the California surfing world. His work is based on initially American counter-cultures, sur- fing and skate boarding, Marvel Comics, rock and independent films. He has a precise knowledge of all this. The proliferation of these cultural elements tallies with a constant variety of medium: disk, installation, object, environ- ment, wall drawing with drawing pins, Tippex, painting on postcards... The artist multiplies the fields of expression and produces an all-encompassing and seductive oeuvre. Behind this immediate fascination with images, Olivier Millagou also subtly presents the relations of powers and domination at stake in certain “encounters” of civilizations. And in these lost paradises, every- thing thus becomes dark, as dark as an old Motorhead album. Olivier Millagou conceives his latest exhibition Litmus out of the clutter that modern life exerts on the individual. Litmus is the story of our contemporary condition of overflowing, generalized and systematic consumerism, and its impact on nature. The artist reverses this narrative by using found material, and thus inverts its scheme through creation. An exhibition that attempts to be made with little, with what is available, with what has no other alternative than to end up incinerated, among other waste. Out of humility, Olivier sublimes waste into poetry. The paintings and sculptures of the show appear to be extracted from an illustration book: Birds, pets, flowers, butterflies and flies populate a world of flowery landscapes where man, when he appears, is reduced to the extremities of his body, a foot, a hand. Behind this illusory innocence, an underlying intention gives Olivier Millagou's work a much broader and important meaning. ...

Selected Artworks
Le Langoustier
Olivier Millagou
Le Langoustier, 2019
15 x 43 x 15cm
Les Sablettes
Olivier Millagou
Les Sablettes, 2017
30 x 21 x 10cm
Eco Plush 3
Olivier Millagou
Eco Plush 3, 2019
19 x 20 x 15cm
Eco Plush 20
Olivier Millagou
Eco Plush 20, 2019
28 x 51 x 39.5cm
Eco Plush 69
Olivier Millagou
Eco Plush 69, 2019
42 x 34.5 x 20cm
Eco Plush 68
Olivier Millagou
Eco Plush 68, 2019
27.5 x 19.5 x 9cm
Eco Plush 81
Olivier Millagou
Eco Plush 81, 2019
8 x 14 x 10cm
Sculpture périmée (Poisson 2)
Olivier Millagou
Sculpture périmée (Poisson 2), 2023
24 x 8 x 8cm
Sculpture périmée (Poissons)
Olivier Millagou
Sculpture périmée (Poissons), 2023
24 x 8 x 8cm
Sculpture périmée (oiseaux 1)
Olivier Millagou
Sculpture périmée (oiseaux 1), 2023
Gallery Representation
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