Edition 2011

Nicolas Guilbert

Born in 1958 in Paris. Lives and works in Paris.

An illustrator from his teenage years through the mid-90s, Nicolas Guilbert had his first show in Paris in 1984 (Coco: Drawings and paintings based on a photograph by Robert Doisneau, Attitude Gallery). Since then he has published several books of drawings (in particular Rue des Italiens, Le Monde—La Découverte, 1990). In diverse Parisian art galleries he has shown multiple facets of a graphically oriented pictorial œuvre, one that has always emphasized line drawings on paper media. Parallel to this career track he has also worked as a photographer, resulting in publication of several books, including Animaux & Cie (Grasset, 2010), the fruit of twenty-five years of reportage; images from this work were shown at the André Villers Museum of Photography in Mougins during the summer of 2009. His most recent photographic exhibition, Animonuments, a sentimental journey across France, was presented at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature from April to June 2011.
  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture