Gilbert Sabatier

Gilbert Sabatier is a painter, engraver, sculptor. A creator since 1960, he is the author of 19 periods ranging from figurative to contemporary research. His total work represents two thousand paintings, 800 sculptures and 250 engravings.
His work is a hypnotizing and protean universe that questions the art of our time in all its forms, colors and movements. Explorer of the impossible, alchemist of matter and adventurer of art, Sabatier has never stopped creating paintings, engravings, screen prints and sculptures, sometimes monumental, sometimes light.
From his figurative early works to his research on weightlessness and suspended time, from his paintings between dreams and reality to his quest for abstraction, from his fascination with the laws of the universe to the invention of a new genre, synthesis of all his obsessions, the artist opens up like never before.
Throughout his life, he tried to artistically express the aspirations and doubts of human beings in the face of an undeciphered universe. For those who discover his work to immerse themselves in the heart and mind of a resolutely free artist.

GILBERT SABATIER

PAINTER • ENGRAVER • SCULPTOR

PRESENTATION OF THE ARTIST

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Born in 1941 in Haiphong (Vietnam), and painter since 1960, Gilbert Sabatier is the author of 2000 paintings, 800 sculptures, 250 engravings, illustrations – works present in various personal, group, national and international exhibitions . He is the creator of 19 periods ranging from classic to contemporary research.
His largest painting reaches 60 m² and his largest sculpture 18 meters long. As for his first important work, The Last Supper, exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1963, it was acquired by the church of Vineuil (Loir et Cher).
He lives and works in Orléans as well as in Loir et Cher.

AWARDS

• 1996 • ACADEMICIAN, MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY INTERNATIONALE DEL VERBANO, ITALY.
• 1992 • VERMEILLE MEDAL FROM THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
• 1985 • GOLD MEDAL AT THE GRAND PRIX DES ARTISTES DE FRANCE & PRIZE OF THE ART LIVING PRESS & PRIZE OF THE SURREALIST SALON IN MORDELLES (ILLE ET VILAINE).
• 1982 • RUBENS GRAND PRIX FOR PAINTING, PARIS & FRANCE HUMANITARIAN GRAND PRIX, PARIS.
• 1973 • BELGO HISPANIC KNIGHT OF MERIT & BELGO-HISPANIC PRIZE, BRUSSELS.
• 1971 • NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL PRIZE.
• 1968 • RECTOR'S PRIZE OF THE ACADEMY OF RENNES.
• 1964 • PARIS ENGRAVING PRIZE.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

(Personal Exhibition = EP)

• 2019 • EP AUBERGE DE CHITENAY (41). HOTELS MERCURE & NOVOTEL ORLÉANS LA SOURCE (45)
• 2018 • EP ROOM LAURENTIA ORLÉANS (45). ORLEANS ANTIQUES FAIR (45)
• 2017 • EP HÔTEL MERCURE ORLÉANS (45). EP THE CHANCERY. ORLEANS (45)
• 2016 • EP DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL BLOIS (41). EP TOWN HALL OF CHAILLES (41) EP SAUMUR CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. (49) EP LAURENTIA ROOM. ORLEANS (45)
• 2015 • EP HOTEL LE MONOARQUE BLOIS. EP IN MOLINEUF. (41) EXHIBITION IN INGRE. (45) EXHIBITION AT THE ANTIQUES FAIR ORLEANS (45)
• 2014 • EP GENERAL COUNCIL OF LOIR ET CHER BLOIS. EP MAISON D'IRÈNE MARDIÉ (LIRET)
• 2013 • EP UNIVERSITÉ ORLÉANS (SCHOOL POLYTECH) - EP BLOIS (LES VOÛTES DU PUITS-CHATEL)
• 2012 • INGRÉ (LIRET), ORLÉANAIS ARTISTS (ORLÉANS)
• 2011 • EP SOCIÉTÉ GENERALE À ORLÉANS, RETROSPECTIVE GILBERT SABATIER 1960-2011 COLLÉGIALE ST PIERRE LE PUELLIER, ORLÉANS.
• 2006 • EXHIBITION IN TOURS
• 2004 • EP IN ORLÉANS: GILBERT SABATIER “AN ARTIST IN THE CITY", 120 PLACES IN THE CITY AND AT THE MUSEUM.
• 2003 • SCULPTURE ENTITLED 1789 AMONG 50 SCULPTING ARTISTS AT CAMPO SANTO D'ORLÉANS - GUEST OF HONOR AT THE CHÂTEAU DE SAINT JEAN LE BLANC (LIRET), PRESENTATION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES.
• 2002 • EP AT GODF, PARIS - EP AT THE TOWN HALL OF CHÂTEAUROUX (INDRE) - EP IN BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER): TOWN HALL, HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT, COLLEGE, KINDERGARTEN SCHOOLS, 32 MERCHANTS - EP SAINT JEAN DE LA RUELLE (LOIRET), ARTIS, AT THE HOUSE OF MUSIC AND DANCE.
• 2001 • EP AT CHÂTEAU DE L'ETANG IN SARAN (LOIRET) - EP AT MANOIR DU FAY IN CHITENAY (LOIR ET CHER).
• 1999 • EP IN MONTPELLIER (HERAULT) - EP IN LA FERTÉ SAINT AUBIN (LIRET).
• 1998 • RETROSPECTIVE “1960-1997: 37 YEARS OF CREATION" AT THE COLLEGIATE SAINT PIERRE LE PUELLIER, ORLÉANS.
• 1994 • EP IN BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER), SUP'TG - PERMANENT EP AT THE MERCURE HOTELS IN BLOIS (1994 AND 1995) AND ORLÉANS (FROM 1994 TO 2001).
• 1993 • EP IN TOURS (INDRE ET LOIRE) - EP IN VINEUIL (LOIR ET CHER), VIEUX CHÊNE – EP AT CHÂTEAU DE L'ETANG IN SARAN (LIRET) - EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION (PUBLIC PRIZE) IN CHOUZY SUR CISSE (LOIR ET CHER).
• 1992 • EP ORLÉANS POST OFFICE THE SOURCE: SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS - TF1 STUDIOS, SACRÉE SOIRÉE (PARIS) - EP IN BLOIS CONSEIL GENERAL DU LOIR ET CHER - EP 30 YEARS OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE FROM THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION, CRDP D'ORLÉANS - EP INAUGURATION OF THE TOWN HALL OF VINEUIL (LOIR ET CHER).
• 1991 • EP MOZART EXHIBITION, 14 SCULPTURES PRESENTED IN THE MAIN CITIES OF THE CENTER REGION - EP FIRST EXHIBITION AT THE FRANÇOIS I PYRAMID IN ROMORANTIN (LOIR ET CHER) - EP ORLÉANS EXHIBITION PARK: ENSEM - ORLÉANS EXPO FAIR: HIGH SCHOOL AND STUDENT FAIR - ANTIQUES FAIR AT THE ORLÉANS EXPO FAIR - EP SCULPTURES AT THE MONOD LYCÉE IN SAINT JEAN DE BRAYE (LIRET) - PAINTINGS AT THE RESTAURANTS DU COEUR AT THE ORLÉANS TOWN HALL - D'ORLÉANS EXHIBITION PARK 'ORLÉANS: FIST TECHNO PLUS - EP MAIN OFFICES OF THE ORLÉANS AND SOURCE POST, BOURGES (PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES, CHER), MONTARGIS (LIRET), ...
• 1990 • EP 30 CONTEMPORARY ART SCULPTURES UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY OF ORLÉANS) - MONDIAL DE L'ART (CNIT, LA DÉFENSE), PARIS - EP REGIONAL COUNCIL OF THE CENTER, HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES SCHOOLS - EP LYCÉE POTHIER D'ORLÉANS: SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS - EP IN MARYLAND, BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER): SCULPTURES ON BEETHOVEN.
• 1989 • EP IN ORLÉANS, REGIONAL COUNCIL OF THE CENTER REGION: SCULPTURES - EP AT SCANNER D'ORLÉANS - EP AT CAL D'ORLÉANS (PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, TERRACOTTA) - COLLEGIATE SAINT PIERRE LE PUELLIER (ORLÉANS) WITH ORLÉANAIS ARTISTS - SCULPTURES AT THE TOWN HALL OF ORLÉANS - EP IN ORLÉANS: MANY SCULPTURES EXHIBITED ON THE BICENTENARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - ARTO LIBRARY, CHÂTEAU DE BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER) - EP IN LAMOTTE-BEUVRON (LOIR ET CHER) - INGRÉ (LOIRET).
• 1988 • EP IN ORLÉANS, LOIRET.
• 1987 • EP IN ORLÉANS, LOIRET.
• 1986 • SALON OF ORLÉANAIS PAINTERS (MUSÉE D'ORLÉANS) - INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART (PARIS).

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