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.

Sultana

Sanary-sur-Mer.

Toulon

New York City

The Armory Show

Paris

Paris Internationale

Miami

Pulse

Basel

Art Basel

Brussels

Art Brussels

Tokyo

Gallery 38

Gallery 103

Los Angeles

Mark Moore Fine Art

Yvon Lambert Gallery

Marseille

Mac - Musee D'Art Contemporain

Naples

Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli

Palais De Tokyo

Avignon

Collection Lambert

Poitiers

Confort Moderne

Nice

Villa Arson

Centre Pompidou

Luxembourg

Casino Luxembourg - Forum D'Art Contemporain

Olivier Millagou

Sculpture périmée (oiseaux 1)

Sculpture périmée (Poissons)

Sculpture périmée (Poisson 2)

Eco Plush 81

Eco Plush 68

Eco Plush 69

Eco Plush 20

Eco Plush 3

Les Sablettes

Le Langoustier