Discover the contemporary work of Bottazzi

 Guillaume Bottazzi Guillaume Bottazzi is a French visual artist, born in 1971. His workshops in France and Belgium have been set up since 2012. At the age of 17 he decided to become an artist and to make this his sole activity. He began by studying painting in Italy, in Florence. Back in France, as a competition award winner, he set up in a workshop that was granted to him by the French Ministry of Culture. He very quickly made his mark on the artistic scene and his career became international. From 1992 he produced highly successful site-specific works. To date, Guillaume Bottazzi has signed off over 40 works for public spaces. He has received private and public commissions from museums, cities, ministries, investors and collectors, such as Mori and the Miyanomori International Museum of Art in Japan, the William Whipple Collection and the Queen Shorough Collection in the USA, and from French Government, the Ministry of Culture, Société Générale and Bouygues in France. He has developed his work in several countries, especially in Europe, Asia and the United States. He worked in New York during the decade of the 2000s. In New York his works have been shown by the Goldstrom gallery and the Annex Gallery. In 2004 Guillaume Bottazzi was artist in residence in Japan and spent a great deal of time in the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan was a culture shock for him and a new source of inspiration. In 2011 the Miyanomori International Museum of Art in Japan commissioned him to create the largest painting in the country. A permanent artwork of 900 m², a jewel of contemporary art on the island of Hokkaido. An exhibition of Guillaume Bottazzi was organized in the same time. Admissions fees have been given for the reconstruction of affected areas from the earthquake. The Miyanomori International Museum of Art (MIMAS) has the largest collection of works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Asia and Oceania. The museum collection also includes about 3000 photographs from the artist Daido Moriyama, as well as works by such artists as Lucio Fontana, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Lee Ufan, Kumi Sugai, Guillaume Bottazzi... Still in Japan, he works with the Galerie Itsutsuji. This major Japanese gallery has enabled him to establish his style through several artwork commissions. This gallery is a major gallery in Japan. It is well known to have introduced Support-Surfaces artists such as Claude Viallat, Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuse, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, and other artists : Pierre Buraglio, François Rouan, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Jean-Michel Meurice, Guillaume Bottazzi, Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages. In 2015, a 216 square meters\' painting became part of the artistic path of Paris La Défense. The greatest artists, from Alexander Calder to Richard Serra, including Joan Miró and César, have made their mark on La Défense district. At present there are 70 monumental works, making this the largest open-air contemporary art space in France. His works are also shown by the Artiscope Gallery in Brussels. This gallery introduced protagonists of the most important movements in the Italian art of the last decades: from Arte Povera Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto and from Transavanguardia Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Mimmo Paladino. It presents also the artists Man Ray, Mauro Staccioli, Guillaume Bottazzi, Gérard Titus-Carmel... He has also received commissions from the European countries and China, where he was a guest of “French May” in Hong Kong in 2016. He created his most recent work in a public space in Belgium, in Brussels, with the partnership of European Commission in Belgium; a painting 16 metres high that now forms part of the heritage of Brussels-Capital.