Born in 1956, Gilles Berquet graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in France and he started his artistic career in the early 80’s. His main field of search is Erotism and he never stops making his collectors impressed by the endless variety of obsessions and fetichisms which flow out of his vibrant images.
Clovis Trouille and Georges Bataille, both of whom were on the margins of Surrealism, but principally the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier, are the artists who influenced Gilles Berquet the most, who pushed him the most to become a photographer.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Since 1984 he had numerous exhibitions around Europe (Paris, Nice, Lion, Hamburg , Leipzig, Rotterdam, Seville); in Japan (Tokyo) and in the United States (Los Angeles)
His most remarkable shows are:
1995 "Passions Privées", Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (group show)
1998 "Corpus Del(e)icti", Mosca, San Pietroburgo, Odessa, New York, Praga (group show)
2004 "Le Banquet", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna (solo show)
2004 "Il nudo fra ideale e realtà. Una storia dal Neoclassicismo ad oggi", Museum of Modern Art, Bologna (group show)
2005 "Les voyeurs modernes", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery Roma (solo show)
BOOKS
His books have been published in France, Japan and Usa:
1989 Les limbes de l'ange
1992 Larme Blanche
1992 Ame
1993 P
1994 La Solitude des Anges
1996 Parfums Mécaniques
1996 Défense d'ouvrir
1997 97 rue des Plantes
2000 Sur Rendez-Vous
2000 Le Banquet