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Michel Bouvet , born with Tunis in 1955 is a graphic designer French. He is graduate 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts of Paris in section painting, he was model maker with the Express train then with VSD. He turned very early to the poster and graphics.

Course

In 1981, Michel Bouvet becomes the graphic designer of the House of the Culture of Créteil.
Il creates its workshop, with Paris where he works in collaboration with three others graphistes.
He exerts mainly his trade of poster artist in the cultural field (theater, opera, music, dance, museums, festivals) but also in the institutional field. In addition to the activity of poster artist of Michel Grooving plane, his team completes work of edition, programs of visual identity and descriptive (museum of Arts and Métiers with Paris, International meetings of the Photography of Arles and exposure the Book of pocket is 50 years old with the Center Pompidou of which it was also one of the police chiefs).

True globe trotter of graphics, it exposed on all the continents and started very early to traverse the world with the manner of Nicolas Bouvier; in order to better know the men. The world and the men returned to him well. Indeed, of Prague to Santiago of Chile, of Warsaw to Asunción, of Bucharest to New York, they accommodated all its exposures, admired and celebrated its posters. “A hand to give, a hand to receive”.
Dans the work of Michel Grooving plane , humor is very often present. What characterizes more its work, it is the dynamic use of the color, its taste for the Typographie as well as a certain power and dimension plastique.

Ses posters is generally the result of a mixture of techniques: photographs (signed Francis Laharrague or Fabrice Boissière), Collage, Sculpture, Peinture.
Ce mixture of techniques combine poetry baroque and rough force. It is an unusual thing in the field of the cultural poster, and that gives a graphic dimension very poétique.

Sa collaboration with the House of the Culture of Creteil stops in 1993.
Président National union of the Graphic designers, it organizes exposures of French posters for the promotion of the graphics of author in the world entier.
Il created in 1987 the logo of the Festival of Musique.
En 1995, it already realized more than 500 posters, gained many prices in great international competitions (Warsaw, Brno).

En parallel, Michel Bouvet teaches with the ESAG-Penninghen.

It also received many rewards in the majority of large biennial international of posters (Poland, Finland, Czech Republic, the United States, Mexico, China, Japan) of which he was member of the jury on several occasions. In France, it received the Grand Prix of the Poster in 1987 and 1992.

It exposed to the " Gallery Anatome " its poster artists for " Gémaux "
It is undoubtedly, today, most known in France and abroad.
Il profits from a beautiful notoriety near the public and of a recognition near its pars because the work of Michel Bouvet is located in the great tradition of the French poster. It falls under the continuity of the painters poster artists like Toulouse-Lautrec or that of the large Masters like André François or Savignac. Some says of him that he is the worthy heir to Savignac.

Decomposition of its work

In general, it always keeps same the graphic Charte for the same advertiser. These posters are made most of the time of a black edge in which visual is. For the posters " the Gemini " , we can note that in addition to the framework and visual, the logo " Gémeaux" is always placed on the left side and in height. They are for more the share in black and white. The text is placed in such way to emphasize to see making live the visuel.

Pour the posters " Arles " , it is noted that the framed black one is always present. One can as see as between " Arles 2002 " and " Arles 2003 " , the image is treated in the same way as well as the text which accompanies it and the site of the advertizing partners.

Principal works

. Logo of the Festival of the Music (1987)

post for " Gémeaux" :

. The idiot
. The birthday
. Good housewives
. Choreographic Appointments of Seals 2002
. Salinger
. Ghosts
. Choreographic Appointments of Seals 2003
. The gull/Ivanov
. The quartet of Alexandria
. Boris Godounov
. Persians
. The plowman of Bohemia
. Oedipus the tyrant
. Urfaust
. Measure for measurement
. The island of the slaves/the colony
. Esag/Penninghen
. The storm

post for Arles:

. Arles 2002
. Arles 2003

Others

. Giddinesses 2000
. French, still an effort…
. The Book of Pocket is 50 years old
. Parisian life
. The ghost ship
. The Book of Pocket is 50 years old
. Season 96/97 Theater of the Thirteen Winds
. Theater of Longjumeau
. The lamp, season 2001/2002
. The lamp, season 2002/2003
. Toulouse the Organ 2001
. Toulouse the Organ 1999
. The Turk in Italy
. Toulouse the Organ 2003
. Faust
. Münchener kammerorchester
. Contemporary dance
. Salinger
. The return to the desert
. Belly field
. Folding screens
. The Tower of Babel
. Beautiful heroes in truth
. International meeting of the lesson artisitques
. Why?
. King Arthur
. Alceste

Rewards

. It received many rewards in the majority of large biennial international of posters (Poland, Finland, Czech Republic, the United States, Mexico, China, Japan)
. In France, it received the Grand Prix of the Poster in 1987 and 1992.
. the Price Alphonse Mucha of the International Biennial 22e of Graphic arts of Brno, Czech Republic, decreed with the poster " ELDORADO" created for the Gemini/National scene.

Principal books

. Michel Grooving plane - Posters, drafts and other voyages - ED. Textual (2004) with texts of Philippe Di Folco, Manon Lenoir, Alain Weill, Diégo Zaccaria
. Michel Grooving plane - ED. Pyramid Art Design (2003), monograph
. East Coast, West Coast - Graphic designers in the United States - collective, ED. Textual (2000)
. Michel Grooving plane - Notebook of posters, notebook of voyages - ED. Of visu the image (1995)

External bond

. www.pixelcreation.fr
. http://www.galerie-anatome.com/affiches/affiches9.html

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