Joel Ducorroy is a French artist, born in 1955 and known as a "plate artist" (artiste "plaquetitien" in French).

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Joel Ducorroy
Born	1955
Movement	Conceptual art

Work

His art consists of stamping word or words onto license plates. He uses license plates as a way of breaking away from the traditional canvas and are also a symbol of contemporary life as cars are at the core of our current society. As a conceptual and humoristic artist, he translates image to words. Everything is written, nothing is explicit. Describing rather than showing, Ducorroy doesn't dictate his point of view, but invites the spectators to create their own image. He exhibits in many places, in France but also in New York City and Tokyo, and works with different galleries in France, especially with Galerie Kahn and Galerie Baudoin Lebon.

Exhibitions

Installations

• 1989 Artist bedroom, Hôtel Windsor, Nice
• 1992 "L’appartement témoin de son temps", Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (France)
• 2001 "The library", Domaine de Chamarande (France)
• 2002 City hall, Bobigny (France)
• 2006 "Le Pavillon des lettres", Le Channel, Calais (France)
• 2007 " Artbiothérapie " hôpital Necker, Paris (France)

References

Sources

• "Joël Ducorroy – artiste plaquetitien", exhibition at the Museum of modern and contemporary art, NICE, France
• "Joël Ducorroy : Catalogue raisonné – Edition 1/31", Patrick Amine, Critères éditions, 2005
• "Joël Ducorroy : Etre artiste et tout plaquer", Marlène Girardin, Critères éditions, 2008, bilingual French & English
• "Joël Ducorroy : Plaqué Art", "Semaine", n°265, (magazine edited by Analogues)

External links

• « Joël Ducorroy » (video in the contemporary art encyclopedia)
• L'appartement témoin de son temps
• Personal web site

На других языках

[fr] Joël Ducorroy