Romain Erkiletlian French, born in Paris in 1972. Lives and works in Tokyo Japan. Represented in Paris by Galerie Sator Education Diplôme de l Ecole de Communication visuelle ECV (Paris) et de l Atelier de Recherche Picturale (Issy les Moulineaux) Diplôme d Economie, Diplôme d Histoire et d Histoire de l art. Lived and worked in NYC from 1997 to 2009. Selected Exhibitions 2015 collective exhibition in preparation for the Piggy Bank Foundation, Yamanashi, Japan Artist scarf design for Milkoo, will be featured at Ddessin art fair in Paris, France 2014 Majestic X, galerie Sator, Paris (personal exhibition) Proposition Lumière, galerie Sator, Paris, France 2013 Kyotography Festival, Off 2012 Still in Motion, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italie
Art Show Busan, Corée du Sud 2011 Kyoto Art Fair, Japan 2010 Wettingen Project, Wettingen, Suisse Mural commissioned by l Institut Francais, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) No Man s Land, Ambassade de France, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) 2009 Roppongi Art Night, selection of the Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan No Man s Land, Ambassade de France, Tokyo, Japan Still in Motion, Lipanjepuntin Artecomporanea, Trieste, Italie Arte Fiera, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporanea, Bologne Italie Forgotten Territories, Curator Lorraine Hussenot, 104, Paris, France S.P.A.C.E.R, galerie La BANK, Paris 2008 Made in Japan, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italie (personal exhibition) Corpo Sociale, Curator Laurent Hegyi, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italie Endless Variables, 3 men show, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY Milano Art Fair, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporarnea, Italie Lost Horizons, Curator David Gibson, Amherst University, Massachussetts, USA Arte Fiera, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporanea, Bologne, Italie 2007 The Armory Show, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY, USA Arte Fiera, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporeana, Bologne, Italie Is There Anybody Out There, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporeana, Trieste, Italie 2006 The Armory Show, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY, USA Photostructures, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporeana, Rome, Italie (personal exhibition) MiArt, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporeana, Milan, Italie 2005 Sandra Gering Gallery, Five 05, New York, NY, USA Arte Fiera, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporeana, Bologne, Italie 2004 Lutz & Thalmann Galerie, Zurich, Suisse (catalogue) MiArt, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporeane Galleria, Milan, Italie Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporeane Galleria, Trieste, Italie 2003 Arco, Garage Regium Galleria, Madrid, Spain 2002 ARTISSIMA, De Miguel Gallery, Turin, Italie De Miguel Gallery, Munich, Allemagne (personal exhibition) 2000 De Chiara Stewart Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1998 Léonora Vega Gallery, New York NY, USA (personal exhibition)
Statement Romain Erkiletlian (born in 1972 in Paris lives and works in Tokyo) dedicates his work to the urban landscape he creates and deconstructs.,for many years in NYC and now in Tokyo..His colorful works evolves now in a more simplified shape, with an elegant futuristic vision which finds its inspiration in modern urbanism, 70 s and 80 s comics, and past civilizations architectures together. The confusion of space that results takes us into a new reality of time shape and space, when the sculptures represents symbolical doors to a mystical network. The sculptures echoe to each other while seducing and drawing the viewer into their sensual texture. Romain Erkiletlian work (on paper, large murals, photocollage and now sculptures) explores a narrative urban landscapes highly architectural with a mix of pop culture and mystic-technical vision...his urban subject is permanently recycled and transformed in a new and innovative esthetical language, which takes us into a new mythologie that opens.
Showa TLR, 64 x 45 cm acrylic on carboard, 2014
Showa SCGR, 64 x 45 cm acrylic on carboard, 2014
Serie Beam Of Light (OB) each 21,5x 26 cm, acrylic on cardboard, 2015 Beam Of Light 4 (OB), 21,5x26cm, acrylic on cardboard, 2015
Beam Of Light 1 (OG), 21,5x26 cm, acrylic on cardboard, 2014 Beam Of Light 3 (OG), 21,5x26 cm, acrylic on cardboard, 2014
Passage, 3x 185x 165 cm, Acrylic on cardboard, 2013 Passage, (details)
Sculpture M1, 46x60x80 cm, Wood Structure,foam and acrylic, 2014
Module M3, Wood Structure, foam and acrylic, 2014
Module M2, Wood structure,foam and acrylic,neons, 160x110x120 cm,2014 Module M3 with Majestic X,Acrylic on cardboard, 272x160cm, 2014
Previous Works Photocollage, retouched with acrylic and paint pens, 3x185x185 cm,2010 actually in the main hall of the French Embassy in Tokyo Japan Artist with Tako, Photocollage,retouched with acrylic and paint pens,272x190cm,2010
Special project with the Mori Museum, Roppongi art Night, 2009, Retouched photographs in light boxes With Stevie, mural commissionned for a Paris apartment, 500x250cm, acrylic on wood panels, 2011
No Man s Land exhibition, French Embassy, Tokyo 2009-2010, Design Inside/outside of the Charles Froment Store, in Jyuugaoka Tokyo.