OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN
Born in 1959 at Brazzaville in Congo, Olivier de Sagazan lives and works in Saint-Nazaire.
Trained as a biologist, he is interested in the living and, through his pieces, seeks to establish a sort of genealogy of the sensibility. He aims to better understand how, at some point, inert material structured by cells engenders life and sensitivity.
For about 25 years, Olivier de Sagazan’s work has principally revolved around the human body. In parallel with his creations - paintings, sculptures, installations - de Sagazan produces performances, popularly seen by the entire world, during which he utilizes his own body as a mold, with clay and paint as his mediums. Converting his face and body, he manoeuvers through choreographed gestures, alloting for radical metamorphoses.
The artist predominantly uses clay and plants that he gathers and kneads in order to create lifelike material. From these elements, a polymorphic world appears composed of different characters like a bestiary where humans intertwine with animals.
EXHIBITIONS
2021
2020
- 22-23/01 “Hybridation” Théatre Lliure Barcelone
- 05/02 “Transfiguration” Festival Imaginale Mannheim Germany
- 04/03 “Ainsi sois Moi” (Première) DansFabrik Brest
- 14/03 – “Transfiguration” Weekend Singulier Le lieu Unique, Nantes, France cancelled
- 23-28 /03 Workshop Estonia cancelled
- 11/04 “Transfiguration” FestivalTrente/Trente Sainte France cancelled
- 11-12-13/06 “Ainsi sois Moi” Festival Brigittines Brussel cancelled
- 19/06 “Transfiguration” Figura Theater Festival Baden Swiss cancelled
- 21/06 “Transfiguration” festival Puppen Magdebourg Germany cancelled
- 25,26/06 “Transfiguration” FRAC Besançon France cancelled
- 4-11/ 07 Vive le Sujet Festival Avignon avec David Wahl cancelled
- 05/09 Performance festival “Kit Gavatovycha“ Lviv Ukraine. cancelled
- 1/10 to 15/11 exhibition Galerie Vitoux Paris
- 10/10 Transfiguration . FIMP’20 Porto
- 30 /10/ 2020, Première : Hands do not touch your precious Me. Teatro Comunale di Ferrara Italy. cancelled
- 5/11 Transfiguration UNIDRAM International Theatre Festival Potsdam cancelled
- 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 / 11 , Hands do not touch your precious Me KVS, Brussels Belgium cancelled
- 15/11. Transfiguration. Le lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2019
- 10-11/01 – Performance, London Mime International Festival, Londres
- 24-25/01 – Workshop, Festival 30/30, Bordeaux, Franc
- 26/01 – Performance Hybridation, Festival 30/30, Bordeaux, France
- 8/03 – Workshop, L’Artère, Lévis, Quebec
- 18/04 – 15/07 – Exhibition, Centre Bellegarde, Toulouse, France
- 18/04 – Performance, Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse, France
- 04/05 – Performance, La Fira de Titelles, Lleida, Spain
- 18/05– Performance, Amen&Beyond, Gand, Belgium
- 30-31/05 – Performance, International Puppet Theatre Festival, Erlangen, Germany
- 14/06 -Performance, A Part Festival, Katowice, Poland
- 30/06 Hybridation Full spin Festival Essen Germany
- 24/07 Performance, MIT Ribadavia, Spain
- 27-31/07 – Workshop, Jardin Parallèle, Reims, France
- 01-10/08 – Résidence Corps-Textes, Jardin Parallèle, Reims, France
- 18-20/08 – Performance, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Groningen, NL
- 28/08 Nominated to the Biennale de Venise with ” O” Director Qiu Yang
- 30-31/08 – Performance, Festival International Les Brigittines, Brussel, Belgium
- 9-15/09 – Résidence Corps-Textes, Théâtre MacOrlan, Brest, France
- 17-29/09 – Résidence Corps-Textes, le PALC, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
- 07/10 – Performance, Dance House Lemesos, Cyprus
- 04/11 to 09/01 2020 – Museum of Art in Figueres – Catalonia Exhibition Video « Hybridation »
- 07/11 – Spectacle “Ainsi sois Moi“C, Scène Nationale – Le Théatre, Saint-Nazaire, France
- 17/12, 18/12, 7 pm. Performance “Transfiguration” Serendipity Art Festival Goa INDE
2018
- 27/03 – Performance, Weekend Singulier, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
- 14/04 – Performance Transfiguration, Festival Rencontre entre les Mondes, Chabeuil, France
- 12/05 – Exhibition, Gallery Contemporary Cluster, Rome, Italy
- 19/05 – Performance Transfiguration, Contemporary Cluster, Rome, Italy
- 02/06 – Performance, Puppet Festival – Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
- 27-28/06 – Masterclass, International Forest Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 29/06 – Performance Hybridation and Transfiguration, Theatre of Lazarists Monastery – Forest Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 09/10 – 11/07 – Masterclass, L’embobineuse, Marseille, France
- 13-14/07 – Performance, Kalamata Dance Festival, Greece
- 01/08 – 12/08 – Actor and performer in a VR movie realised by Qiu Yang, China
- 26/08-02/09 – Residence Corps-Textes, Scène Nationale – Le Théatre, Saint-Nazaire, France
- 07/09 – Performance, Gesture 01″ at the Old Baths, London
- 15/09 – Performance, CERCO, Saragosse, Spain
- 06/10 – Performance Transfiguration, Théâtre Mac Orlan – Festival La Becquée, Brest, France
- 06/11 – 22/12 – Exhibition, Loo and Lou Gallery, Paris, France
- 14-18/11 – Golden Horse festival, VR Film with Qiu Yang, Taipei, Taiwan
2017
- 7/01 – 7/02 – Exhibition, Chapelle Ste Anne, Tours, France
- 15-17/01 – Performance, Petit Faucheux, Tours, France
- 3/02 – Performance, Festival Allotropique, ESBA, Tours, France
- 7/03 – 14/05 – Exhibition, Ugly as art, Moa, Seoul, Korea
- 21/04 – Exhibition Etres Chairs, Chapelle des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire, France
- 28/04 – Performance, Orbis Pictus, Reims, France
- 13/05 – Colloque “Généalogie de la sensibilité” and Performance, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
- 13/05 – Orlan et Olivier de Sagazan, BP17 Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 10/06 – 9/09 – Exhibition, “La imaginacion del desastre”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 14/06 – Performance, Théâtre de Jérusalem, Israël
- Sept – Fashion Week, Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh offer an exclusive visual insight into Pugh’s S/S 18, London
- 4-15/09 – Actor in the movie “The Mute”, Director Bartosz Konopka, Poland
- 24-28/09 – Performance, Festival Sudaka, Quieto, Ecuador
- 9/11 – 31/12 – Exhibition, Musée d’art de Kauno, M.Žilinsko galerijoje nuo lapkričio, Lithuania
- 16/11 – 22/12 – Exhibition, Galery Vitoux, Paris, France
2016
- 2-3/02 – Performance, Musée de la Croix Rouge, Geneva, Switzerland
- 20-25/02 – Masterclass, University of the Art London, Polverigi, Italy
- 26-28/05 – Performance, Chuncheon International Mime Festival, Korea
- 15/06 – Performance, Théâtre Déjazet, avec la Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris, France.
- 17/06 – 30/07 – Exhibition, Loo et Lou Gallery, Paris, France
- 22-26/06 – Masterclass et Performance, Central St Martin, London
- July – Collaboration as actor in Channel Zero, Winnipeg, Canada
- 16/07 – 16/09 – Exhibition SNACK, Power Station Of Art, Shanghai, China
- 17/07 – Performance and Masterclass, Power Station Of Art, Shanghai, China
- 12/09 – Performance Transfiguration, Biennale d’art performatif, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
- 16/09 – Performance Transfiguration, Festival Phenomena, Montreal, Canada
- 26, 27, 28/09 – Immersive Room with FKA Twigs, London
- 12/11 – Performance, Biennale, Shanghai
- 18/11 – Performance, Submerge Festival, Bristol, England
- 25/11 – Performance, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany