François Andes

Biography
Working across different mediums from drawing, and painting, to sculpture and performance, François Andes’ practice weaves together various beliefs and myths of both Western and Asian cultures creating an imaginative world of whimsical characters and alluring flora and fauna. What seems like a pictorial fairytale from afar reveals scenes of violence and tension upon closer inspection. His works are a means for him to question the relationship between man and nature, and between people and their histories.
 

François Andes lives and works in Lille. His work has been exhibited in notable institutions such as Centre d'Arts Visuels le Labanque, Béthune, France; Bispo do Rosario Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Musée du château de Flers, Lille 3000, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; Musée de Bailleul et Fort de Mons, France; and Oulan Bator, Pôle d'art contemporain, Orléans, France. Andes has also performed in Nuit Blanche, Paris, France and Mons Biennale, Belgium. In 2015, he was artist in residence at Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture. Coup de Coeur artist at the international contemporary drawing salon DDessinParis17, he was recently invited to an artistic residency at the French Institute in Tétouan, at Villa Saigon in Vietnam, at the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro and at the With Artist Foundation in South Korea. In 2019, he created the scenical elements and costumes for the spectacle BWV 988: Thirty possibilities of transgression, which premiered at Teatro Plínio Marcos, Brasília, Brazil. In 2020, his work will be exhibited at the Library Alexis de Tocqueville in Caen and at Korean Cultural Center of the Embassy of South Korea in Paris. A monographic exhibition of his work will be presented at the Center d'Arts Visuels le Labanque. Béthune, France from February to July of 2021.

Exhibitions