Samuel Francart is a French multi-medium artist with a particular attraction to fluid materials such as paper or textile.
His work documents and recounts the trips he made to France, Spain and Greece. These kinds of « new imaginary cartographies » are nourished by multiple references in which different memories coexist: personal, collective and historical memories. The artist plays with the potential of the world's landscapes by fragmenting Space and Time in order to create unique territories. Each artwork is a mosaic created by fragments of his own experiences (pieces of fabric recovered from Greek islands, shapes found on walls, patterns inspired by ancient ruins or even compositions borrowed from masterpieces of art history...). In this way, he brings together micro and macroscopic elements in order to explode scales and proportions in his landscapes.
At the same time, Samuel explores the boundaries between painting, sculpture and installation through the structure of the “roller blind”. These moving frames thus rethink the Albertian definition of painting. He also reworks certain codes from art history such as the technique of atmospheric perspective.
His work is an ode to the beauty of the World as well as the beauty of Creation.
Born in 2000 (Châlons-en-Champagne, France)
Education
2015-1018: High school diploma of literature option drama, Lycée Marc Chagall, Reims (France)
2018-2020: Bachelor of Art History, University of Lille III (France)
2020-2023: Bachelor at the ESA of Tourcoing (France)
2022 (May): Engraving course, Atelier Yotta Iota, Lille (France)
2022 (September): Internship in a gallery, Provost-Hacker Gallery, Lille (France)
2023 (July): Painting course with the artist Gael Davrinche, Gael Davrinche’s atelier, Roubaix (France)
2023-2024: Master at Athens Fine Arts, Athens (Greece)
Collective exhibitions
2021 (May): Exhibition Unknown Forms and Objects, ESA of Tourcoing (France)
2022 (March/April/May): Mémoire Vive exhibition, Tourist Office of Nabinals/ESA Dunkerque/ESA Tourcoing (France)
2022 (October): Sans Titre exhibition, Platforms Project 2022, Contemporary Art Fair, Athens (Greece)
2023 (October): Carré de Sable exhibition, Platforms Project 2023, Contemporary Art Fair, Athens (Greece)
2025 (March): Révélation by Lille Art Up!, Lille Art Up!, Contemporary Art Fair, Lille (France)
Performances
2022 (May/March/April): Déconstruction/Construction/Reconstruction, Mémoire Vive exhibition, Tourist information Office of Nasbinals/ESA Dunkerque/ESA Tourcoing, (France)
2022 (October): Paradoxical disappearance, Platforms Project, Contemporary Art Fair, Athens (Greece)
2023 (April): Abbaze Hind, Passage, Museum of Fine Arts of Tourcoing, Tourcoing (France)
Publications
2021 (July): Contribution and publication in the art magazine Emu.es, Expérience, magazine n°1 (publication of drawings)
2022 (September): Publication in the Tourcoing newspaper for the exhibition at Platforms Project, Contemporary Art Fair (Greece)
2025 (March): Publication in the Lille Art Up!’s book (in Révélation by Lille Art Up!)
Artistic residencies
2022 (March): Residency at Nasbinals (France)
2022 (September): Residency at Hollebeke (Belgium)
Interviews
Images on tourne, Lille Art Up! - 2025 - Samuel Francart - ESA Tourcoing, 2025
Radio Campus Lille, Quoi de Neuf ?, Samuel Francart, René Lavergne, 2025
Images on tourne, Lille Art Up! - 2025 - Samuel Francart - ESA Tourcoing, 2025