SoKaZo
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Acryl
Stil: Abstrakt
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Since the past few years, I worked in Europe to create and showcase an original and personal aesthetic universe.
My juxtaposed multicoloured shapes are privileged vehicles in this quest, especially when industrials use them to embellish everyday objects: a way for me to penetrate and hopefully positively alter the lives of a greater number…
My paintings are all hand-made using acrylic and a technique called ‘Hard-Edge’.
In their unique language, they narrate stories, encounters between probable beings from unconscious universes, sensations like love, melancholy, appetite, or display landscapes that can be alternatively aquatic, aerial or virtual.
Humour and poetry play an important role in the composition, enhanced by the savoir-faire of colours.
Immerged in Sokazo’s world, the spectator lets his imagination roam through fantastic circumstances. He’ll discover a part of himself by accepting the concept of the two infinites, visible and invisible, and may even find himself content with his condition in a universe bound by endless questioning.
The West Coast is a new source of inspiration for me. Magnificent icons spur from its foundations, half-divinities, half-spirits, like memoirs of the Rain Forest with its thousand mysteries.
This is the work I want to share with the public, the opportunity for them to realize, through my contemporary picturesque poems, the incredible richness and potential for dreams and inspiration that this unique place shelters.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Born in France in 1962
Lives and works in Vancouver BC since 2005
Selected personal exhibitions
2007 SNAP Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC (Canada)
2006 Onepointsix Gallery, Vancouver BC (Canada)
2005 Fringe Festival, Granville Island/Mercedes-Benz, Vancouver BC (Canada)
2005 Galerie Art Vall, Andorra-la-Vella (Andorra)
2005 « Sokazo’s World », Galerie Sainte-Catherine, Rodez (France)
2004 Claudius Rigaud Institute, Toulouse (France)
Charity exhibition to improve quality of life for cancer patients
2004 « Sokazo Smart Art », Smart Centers (France)
2004 RTDA at The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas (USA)
2004 Foundation Sauret, Brive-La-Gaillarde (France)
2003 Claudius Rigaud Institute, Toulouse (France)
Charity exhibition to improve quality of life for cancer patients
2003 Oddos & Sébiran, Toulouse (France)
2002 Villa Beatrix Enea, Anglet (France)
2001 Galerie Marakas, Paris (France)
2000 Executive Gallery, Toulouse (France)
1999 G. Vigouroux Atrium, Cahors (France)
1998 Châteauvieux Optique, Toulouse (France)
1997 Galerie des Limonadiers, Vaison-La-Romaine (France)
1996 Galerie Susini, Aix-en-Provence (France)
1996 Matra Marconi Espace, Toulouse (France)
1995 Théâtre National, Montauban (France)
1994 Galerie 27, Toulouse (France)
1993 Espace Marie-Ange Sébiran, Toulouse (France)
1992 Technal Entreprise, Toulouse (France)
1992 Galerie 27, Toulouse (France)
Selected group exhibitions
2007 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC (Canada)
2002 Vœux d’artistes, Toulouse (France)
Charity exhibition to collect funds for hospitalized children
2001 ArtéNîmes, Nîmes (France)
1999 Musée Borda, Dax (France)
1999 Resto-Bébé (Event Organiser), Toulouse (France)
Charity exhibition to collect funds to buy milk for orphan babies
1996 Raz-el-Hanut, Tarragona (Spain)
1996 Festival d’Art Contemporain, Verdun (France)
1995 Raz-el-Hanut, Barcelona (Spain)
1995 Nouveaux Talents, Paris (France)
Travels & Foreign residencies
New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Bombay, Prague, London, Paris, Côte d’Azur
Major acquisitions
Museums
Borda Museum of Dax (France)
Villa Beatrix Enéa, Anglet (France)
Toulouse Museum of Contemporary Art (France)
Collections
Mercedes-Benz Canada
Smart Center
G. Vigouroux
Chateauvieux Optical
Cofidoc Inc.
SacreBleu Inc.
Ambroise Paré Physiotherapy Center
Chateau Lauriga Inc.
Sauret Père & Fils
Benart Dental Clinic
Humid’Oc
Purple Lounge Club
City of Rodez
Private collections in France, Spain, the UK, Belgium, Greece, Canada and the USA
Catalogues
2007 « Shift », Richmond Art Gallery (BC)
2002 « Sokazo à Anglet », Cultural Affairs of the City of Anglet (France)
Text by Denis Milhau and Paul Dubois
1996 « Philippe Sokazo », Matra Marconi Space, Toulouse (France)
Text by Marguerite Gaston
Selected television appearances
2007 News, CBC Radio Canada
2007 ZigZag, National Broadcast, CBC Radio-Canada
2005 News: Studio visit, CBC Radio-Canada
2005 Interview, Shaw TV (Canada)
2004 Pure Virus, TLT Télévision (France)
2003 Vœux d’Artistes, FR3 (France)
2000 Art Reviews, TLT Télévision (France)
1994 Studio visit, TLT Télévision (France)
Education
1984-1989 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (France)
1982-1984 Univ. of Toulouse, DEUG of Sociology, Major in Anthropology (France)
Professional & Teaching experience
Since 2002 Professional Artist
1990-2002 Beaux-Arts Store Manager, Couleurs du Temps (France)
1990-1992 Individual & Group Art lessons, Canon Entreprise (France)
1989-1990 Artistic Director, Teen Magazine (USA)
Appointed member of honor of the City of Toulouse in 2000
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New miracle
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91 x 91 cm
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Hipposnagon
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50 x 100 cm
2008
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Stories
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90 x 90 cm
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Kroonappy
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91 x 121 cm
2008
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Soulshine Spray
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100 x 100 cm
2007
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Migration
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91 x 121 cm
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In good Spirits
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Virtudom
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Pacific Spirits
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130 x 162 cm
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Angels Gesture
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91 x 121 cm
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Miracle Turquoise
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73 x 100 cm
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