QUENTIN GAREL

Quentin Garel is an internationally renowned French sculptor and draftsman known for his bronze animal sculptures that resemble wood. His works are first conceptualised in intricate charcoal drawings which he then translates into wooden sculptures. From there, he makes a mould to cast the piece in bronze resulting in a beautifully realistic, shining sculpture. His animals often take the shape of masks, in which only certain aspects of the animal figure are represented. 

Quentin Garel graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1998, and was a recipient of a scholarship at the Art Institute of Chicago and a residency of two years at the Casa Velasquez, Madrid. He has been commissioned for numerous notable public works, including a series of bronze animal busts for the Public Gardens in Lille and another in the garden of the Tour Carpe Diem in Paris. Garel is part of several major collections including the permanent collections of Rouen’s Regional Centre of Knowledge and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Verona, Italy, and has been featured in the Galleries of Comparative Anatomy and Palaeontology. He is also the recipient of noteworthy art awards including the Drawing Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris in 2003, and the Sculpture Award from Salon de Mai, Paris in 2004, among others.

Exhibits

2021 – Anomal, Cuturi Gallery, Singapore – Masquerade, Galerie LJ, Paris, France
2020 – Domaine de Chamarande, Anomal, France – Galerie LJ, Art Madrid, Madrid, Spain – Galleria Forni, Arte Fiera Bologna, Italy – Patrice Trigano, BRAFA, Bruxelles, Belgium
2019 – A Retrospective Exhibition, Centre d’art contemporain de la Matmut, France – The Wizard of Wood, Art Expo Malaysia – Anima Artificialis, Singapore. – Mazel Galerie, The ARTery, Singapore. – Mazel Galerie, Black and White, Singapore.
2018 – Mazel Galerie, Recent Works, Brussels, Belgium. – Galerie LJ, Oeuvres monumentales, Paris, France. – Galerie Bayart, En chair et en Os, Le Touquet, France. – Mazel Galerie, Art Stage, Singapore. – Mazel Galerie, The Great Race, Singapore – Mazel Gallery, Jakarta Art, Jakarta, Indonesia. – Mazel Gallery, Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon.
2017 – Mazel Gallery, London Art Fair, London, United Kingdom. – Mazel Galerie, French touch, Singapore. – Mazel Gallery, St-art Strasbourg art fair, Strasbourg, France.
2016 – Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Le magicien d'os, Paris, France. – Mazel Galerie, ART.FAIR, Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany.
2015 – Mazel Galerie, Gueules de bois, Brussels, Belgium. – Mazel Galerie, ART.FAIR, Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany. – Mazel Galerie, St.Art art fair, Strasbourg, France.
2014 – Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, Bestiary, New-York, USA. – Mazel Galerie, Art Up, Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France. Galerie L.J, Paris, France – Mazel Galerie, Singapore Art Fair ME.NE.SA ART, Singapore.
2013 – Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, Gueules de bois, New-York, USA. – Mazel Galerie, SOON, Brussels, Belgium.
2012 – Gallerie Dell' Incisione, Bestiario, Brescia, Italy. – Hotel de Région Haute Normandie, Rouen, France. – Mazel Galerie, Bestiary, Brussels, Belgium. – Gremillion & Co. Recent works, Houston, USA. – Mazel Galerie, Art Paris Art Fair, Paris, France. – Mazel Galerie, Lille Art Fair, Lille, France. – Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, Group Show, New-York, U.S.A. – Mazel Galerie, Art Gent, Gent, Belgium.
2011 – Mazel Galerie, Lille Art Fair, Lille, France. – Mazel Galerie, Remix, Brussels, Belgium. – Mazel Galerie, Chic Art Fair, Paris, France. – Galerie L.J, Art Elysées, Paris, France. – Mazel Galerie, Zoo O Logis, Brussels, Belgium. – Mazel Galerie, LINEART, Ghent, Belgium. – Création d'une sculpture monumentale en bronze "L'arbranimal" pour le Pôle Régional des Savoirs de la ville de Rouen.
2010 – Mazel Galerie, Trophée, Brussels, Belgium. – Galerie L.J, Trophée, Paris, France. – Galleria Forrni, Art Paris + Guest, Paris, France. – Mazel Galerie, 19, Brussels, Belgium.
2009–2007 – Galleria Forni, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy. – Galleria Forni, Art Paris, Paris, France. – Galleria Forni, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy. – Palazzo Forti, II Settimo Splendore. La modemita della malinconia, Vérone, Italy. – 4e Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Centre Culturel Jacques Prévert, Aixe, France. – Première Biennale de Sculptures, Propriété Caillebotte, Yerres, France. – Galleria Forni, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy. – Création d’une fontaine constituée d’une vingtaine de sculptures pour les Nouveaux Jardins Municipaux de Lille, Jardins des géants.
2006 – Création d’une série de sculptures monumentales pour le Parc du Chemin de l’Ile, Nanterre. – Galerie RL Beaubourg, Art Paris, Paris, France.
2005 – Abbaye de Saint-Riquier, Le cochon, portrait d’un séducteur, France. – Salon de Mai, Paris, France. – Galleria Fomi, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy. – Galerie RL Beaubourg, Art Paris, Paris, France.