Justa, 2019, Bois de chêne polychromé, 300 x 170 x 120 cm © Cedric Le Corf
CEDRIC LE CORF
Cedric Le Corf was born in 1985 in Bühl, near Baden-Baden (Germany), he lives and works in Brittany, in the Morbihan region. He graduated in 2009 with honours from the École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne in Lorient.
The anatomical landscapes inspired by Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty’s boards have resurfaced over time as an inspiration for Le Corf’s work. Little by little, a dismembered man is transformed into a landscape of a man. Humans, trees, and the earth all possess a kind of “skin” and with it, the ability to be flayed. Is it not true that a dissected body is merely a wide range of landscapes, full of mishaps, folds, and crevices? The slightest roughness in bone is reminiscent to the rocky landscapes of Patinir; the venous, arterial, or nervous network irrigates like rivers, plains, and estuaries; muscles, like the clay of Genesis, model gorges and mounds.
Using this metaphor, he uses plant roots as a landscape element to interlock bones, vertebrae, or joints made of porcelain. The root, in its etymological sense, is one element implanted inside another, much like the root of a tooth, a hair, or the dorsal root. It thus opposes the raw element of chaos to the mastery of creation, from roughness to polish, from decomposition to the inalterable, from the durability of art to the ephemeral man.
Imbued with the Rhineland and Armorican heritage, confronted with the pathos of Grünewald (Baldung Grien), the hanged men within “Des misères de la guerre” by Jacques Callot at “l’Ankou,” along with the macabre dances of Kernascléden, where the animate and the inanimate are mixed, to the horror of the mass graves of Sobibor, Le Corf tries, by attaching himself to a motif, to deafen the subject that the sculpture, the painting, or the engraving contains.
He has done several artist residencies, including the Dufraine Foundation in Chars, Académie des Beaux-Arts 2016-2018, the Spitzberg Expedition Residency 2017, Member of the Casa Velasquez in Madrid 2018-2019, and the Miro Foundation in Palma de Mallorca 2019.
He received the Georges Coulon Prize (sculpture) from the Institut de France, Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2017.
He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in France, Germany, Spain and Belgium.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Awards
2020 - Prix Gravix, fondation Taylor, Paris
2017 - Prix Georges Coulon (sculpture) de l’Institut de France, Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris
Training
2009 - DNSEP (mention), EESAB École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne site de Lorient
2007 - DNAP (félicitations), EESAB École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne site de Lorient
Residences
2019 - Fondation Miro à Palma de Majorque
2018-2019 - Membre de l’Académie de France à la Casa de Velazquez à Madrid
2017 - Résidence Spitzberg Expédition 2017, Association Marémotrice, Suisse
2016-2018 - Résidence à la Fondation Dufraine, Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris
Collection
Private collection (Lambert collection)
Solo swhow
2025 - Le sifflement du geai, Galerie Loo&Lou, Paris
2023 - Fôret Noire, Galerie Loo&Lou, Paris
2020 - Péninsules, Galerie Loo&Lou, Paris
2017 - Meisterhaft, Galerie Schmalfuss, Berlin
2016 - Os servatorio, Asklepios Medical School, Hamburg
2011 - Le voyage d’Issenheim, chapelle de Quelhuit, Île de Groix
2010 - L’homme paysage, travaux sur papier, Galerie-Galerie, Pont-Aven
- Hommage à Jacques Fabien-Gauthier d’Agoty, Bühl / Baden
Collective shows (extracts)
2025 - Entailles, Association Pointe et Burin, Fondation Taylor
2024 - Collectif Körper, Galerie Taloté, Vannes
2022 - Nature // Natures, Galerie Loo&Lou, Paris
2021 - La Mare au diable, Nelly Stetenfeld et Cedric Le Corf, Chapelle St. Jaques, Clohart-Carnoët
- Prétexte, du cheval à l’œuvre, Haras national du pin, Le Pin du Haras
2020 - Péninsules, Galerie Lou&Loo, Paris
- Itinérance, Académie de France, Paris
- VIVA VILLA, Collection Lampbert, Avignon
- Itinérance, Madrid
- ArtsLibris, ARCO, stand de la Casa de Velázquez, IFEMA, Madrid
- Exposition et ateliers des artistes de l’Académie de France, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
- L’Âme du lieu, Château de Keroüartz, Lannilis
2018 - ESTAMPA, AFM 2018-2019, Madrid
- Loups, y es-tu? Bestiaire et métamorphose, Château de Maisons, Maisons-Laffitte
2017 - Meisterhaft, Galerie Schmalfuss, Berlin
- Spitzberg 2017, Galerie Graphem, Paris
2016 - Os servatorio, Asklepios Medical School, Hamburg
- Biennale de l’estampe, Musée de Gravelines
2015 - Cabinet Da-End V, Galerie Da-End, Paris Nêtre, Plateforme, Paris
- Lignes, Éclats d’art, Musée Bossuet, Meaux Gestern und Häuten, Villa Kolbe, Karlsruhe
2014 - XVII. Deutsche internationale Grafik-Triennale, Frechen
- Le cabinet Da-end IV, Galerie Da-End, Paris
- Kabinet d’estampes, Le Kabinet, Bruxelles
- Gruppenausstellung, Kunsthalle Weissensee, Berlin
2013 - Mise à Nu, L’inlassable Galerie, Paris
2011 - Le voyage d’Issenheim, chapelle de Quelhuit, Île de Groix
2010 - L’homme paysage, travaux sur papier, Galerie-Galerie, Pont-Aven
- Hommage à Jacques Fabien-Gauthier d’Agoty, Bühl / Baden
Edition
2020 - Péninsules - ArtPress octobre, l’Oeil septembre
2006 - Flux et reflux, cinq aquarelles originales - texte de Platon
2004 - L’homme et la coquille, gravures - texte de Paul Valery Editions
