Marc Vellay.
Born 1954.
Lives and works in southern Normandy (2 hours from Paris).
His sculpture focuses on the figure and on nature. It is intended essentially to be cast in bronze.
Works by Velllay are present in private collections,
in Europe, the United States and Japan.
One man shows
2018
Solo show Cyril Guernieri gallery, Paris
Or / lumières, installation, Crypte de Toussaint, Mortagne-au- Perche
Mortagne-au-Perche,Visions de Jacob, Solo show, bronzes, bibliophilia et deLuxe édition.
2017-2018
Beaupassage - Paris 07 > vidéo
Candleholders and Candlesticks, private commission
Visions de Jacob, bibliophilia (deLuxe edition with 2 bronzes and 62 digital engravings, signed and numbered / XII)
Chess table and Chess game, private commission
2016
11/3/11, Fukushima, Group show, Mortagne au Perche, catalogue: L’ange de la mémoire, augmented edition.
2014
Changement d'échelles - Galerie Brun Léglise - Paris
Artiste invité aux XIXème rencontres d'art contemporain, Bourg-la-Reine
2012
La mémoire de l'Ange - Galerie Brun Léglise - Paris
Galerie Delfi form - Zwolle - NL
2010
Equilibre et fébrilité : Lutteurs et échassières - Galerie Brun Léglise - Paris
2008
Extension de mémoire : Charpentes de bronze - Galerie Brun Léglise - Paris
2007
Le chant du guetteur - Galerie Brun Léglise - Paris
2006
Hommage à N.L. - Galerie Brun Léglise - Paris
2004
Découpages, Galerie Artémise - Orne
2003
Pleins et déliés : Corps et fruits - Château du tertre - Orne
Corps & fruits - Galerie Brun Léglise - Paris
2002
Traces d’envol - Galerie Mouvements - Paris (
catalogue)
2001
Prises en tenailles - Galerie Courant d’art – Paris (catalogue)
1995-2002
Ateliers de Belleville - Paris
1994
Fers et Bronzes - Maison de verre - Paris
1992
Galerie Flak, Paris
One Building, One Piece (of Art)
2020 Rueil
L’ange de Rueil / The angel of Rueil,
bronze with antique green patina, 320 cm high, placed in a water pond, as part of the "One Building, One Piece (of Art)"
2019 Puteaux
La fontaine des métiers d’art / Fountain of fine crafts,
A freestone fountain, gold leaf engraving and bronze bas-relief for the Quartier des arts, Puteaux, An Emerige / Ogic program, As part of the "One Building, One Piece (of Art)"
2019 Garches
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe,
230 x 110cm bronze,
As part of the "One Building, One Piece (of Art)"
2014 Bourg la reine
Media Library (Pascale Guédot arch.)
Lecture / Reading 2014-2015,
Bronze, unique piece
Donation (after competition) by Emerige to the Town of Bourg-la-Reine
Zac de Bièvre
Les premiers pas /The first steps (2014-2015)
Bronze / unique piece, approx. 160 cm high
Donation (after competition) by Emerige to the Town of Bourg-la-Reine
Zac de Bièvre / avenue du Général Leclerc / installation 2014
Plus haut /Higher, Bronze (2014-2015), unique piece, 220cm high
Donation (after competition) by Emerige to the Town of Bourg-la-Reine
2014 Gennevilliers
Interconstruction/ Avenue de la République - rue Paul Barbusse
Odalisque se relevant / Odalisque
Bronze, black and antique green patina, concrete
190 cm wide.
2013 Paris
Emerige Headquarters
Zimbabwe black granite overflow water basin,
Légendes urbaines /Urban Legends
Eight bronzes, antique green and brown patina (200cm high),
A beveled pillar concrete arch bearing the Phénix en costume d’Arlequin / Phoenix in Harlequin costume , bronze with antique green and brown patina 300cm wide)
2012 Achères
Interconstruction
Monument à Rol-Tanguy
2009 Bezons
Interconstruction / rue Pasteur
Ils marchaient amoureux / Walking in love
Bronze, antique green patina, 190cm high.
Books and Catalogues
• Marc Vellay, Galerie Flak, 1992
• Voyages, texts by Philippe Bastien, drawings by Marc Vellay
• Prise en tenailles,
foreword by Pierre Moinot, de l’Académie Française, 2000
• Traces d’envol,
text by Nicole Landau, 2001
• Extension de mémoire, charpentes de bronzes, 2008
text by Dominique Brun Léglise
• Marc Vellay, œuvres 2003-2009, 144 pages, introduction by Philippe Piguet, foreword by Laurent
Dumas, Paris 2009
• La mémoire de l'ange, texte by Marc Maury, Paris 2012
• Hôtel Beaubrun, portfolio of 9 engravings, printed by Item, Paris 2013
• Hôtel Beaubrun, 144 Pages, Paris 2013
• Marc Vellay, XIXème rencontre d'art contemporain, 36 pages, Bourg-la-Reine, 2014
Editions de bibliophilie
• Visions de Jacob (2017-2018) bibliophile edition, 92 pages of text by François Esperet, 62 digital engravings by Marc Vellay,
12 deLuxe edition, console in oak containing, two volumes, signed and numbered, two bronzes by Marc Vellay.
• La nuit de Jacob (Jacob’s Night), 2014, 42-page portfolio of texts and drawings by Marc Vellay, digital engraving with 36 numbered copies and 7 artist proofs
• La Chine en miroir (China in Mirror) photographs by Marc Vellay, 1972-2012
• Grains de peaux (Skins), texts and photographs by Marc Vellay, 44 pages in black box accompanied by a monotype
• Des lutteurs le cœur bat lentement (Of wrestlers, heart beats slowly) 35 pages, digitized monotypes
Molder :
Atelier Pierre Revol
43 rue des trois capitaines, 26 400 Crest
04 75 25 11 32
Foundry :
Barthélémy art,
43 rue des trois capitaines, 26 400 Crest
04 75 25 62 97
Etching :
Alain Controu, Les Gouptières, 61290
Item, 49 rue du Montparnasse, 75014 Paris
Photography :
Hugo Miserey
hugo.miserey@wanadoo.fr
Web design :
Katrin Vierkant
www.4kant.de
