Philippe Hortala, les potagers & Co

Opening on Thursday, October 24. Publication of a catalog, preface by Lauriane Gricourt, director of Musée Les abattoirs, Toulouse. Press release, text by Didier Ottinger, curator of the Centre Pompidou, 1996, la limace et le géomètre.

1960 Born in Toulouse. 1978-1983 Graduated from École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse 1982 First solo exhibition, Galerie 15, Saint Gaudens He begins the Têtes-Yeux series, with religious and Fauvist subjects invade his paintings. 1983 With Henri Darasse, Alain Fabre and Clément Thomas, he forms the group “Peinture immédiate”, which lasted only a few months. He settles in Barcelona for nine months with the help of a grant a grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and painted a series of views of Barcelona. He enrols at the Academia San Lluc and paints nudes in pastel. 1984 in Toulouse, he receives a grant from the French Ministry of Culture grant from the Ministry of Culture. Until 1988, he works at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, thanks to the American Center, and painted the “Pâtisseries” series, which was at the Réfectoire des Jacobins in Toulouse. Toulouse. 1987 Awarded a scholarship by the Hohenberg Foundation, he stays in New York. 1989 He returns to live and work in Toulouse, where he remains until 1998, while also spending time at the Cité internationale des Arts, Paris. First stays in Naples, where he will visit frequently until 1991. He paints the “Combat du poulpe et de la langouste” series and creates views of Naples in paper collage, as well as sculptures with tools depicting marine fauna. These works will be presented at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix in Les Sables-d'Olonne. 1990 Painted palettes. 1993 Travels with several artists, stays at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, in Ireland and Farrera, in the Catalan Pyrenees: “A Kaleidoscopic Pilgrimage”. He paints a new series of close-ups of strawberry plants. strawberry plants. 1994-1995 During the summer of 1995, he prepares the vegetable garden series. At the same time, he draws pastel nudes and creates sculptures on the theme the theme of food, using kitchen utensils. 1996 He continues his vegetable garden investigations, which are exhibited at the at the Musée Denys-Puech in Rodez, the Galerie Piltzer in Paris and the Espace des arts in Chalon-sur-Saône. He also creates sculptures of birds using gardening tools depicting birds. 1998 Dies on October 2 in his studio.