XAVIER VEILHAN (b. 1963, Lyon, France) lives and works in Paris.
Xavier Veilhan is both fascinated by the possibilities afforded by modern technology, and inspired by the conventional forms of classical art. His work covers a great span of media and using modern tools such as photography, scanning, digital and 3D imagery, it revisits the picture, as well as the tradition of history painting and statuary. Working with instantly recognizable, generic subjects (people, objects, animals), Xavier Veilhan models reality, and, in his latest sculpture series, People as Volume, he creates simplified forms that play on conventional uses of scale. All works are finished in modern materials: aluminum, polyurethane, or glue-laminated birch wood. In the last years, Veilhan has expanded his artistic practice to new collaborations, such as with the Chanel Haute Joaillerie stores, and the production of Spectacle musical Aérolithe, composed and played by the French electro music group Air.
Veilhan has shown his work in the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France; Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France; and in a 2004 installation for the Forum of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He has participated in group exhibitions such as the Lyon Biennial; La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris; the Valencia Arts Biennial, Spain; and Éblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Veilhan is represented by Gering López Gallery in New York, and Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris.