about the artist :
Tony SOULIE

A prolific painter, performer and photographer, Tony Soulié is one of the most important artists of his generation.

Tony Soulié has been a recognized artist of the New French Abstraction since the 1970s. In his work, he uses painting, Land Art, photography and written inscriptions. Theatre, acrobatics and dance, Tony Soulié is interested in all arts and experiences. He manages to combine his work as a painter with his taste for travel in open and extreme lands such as deserts, shores, volcanoes, dense forests.

"After receiving the Villa Medici Hors les murs prize in 1977, I was able to move to Naples, where I made my first Land Art installations on Vesuvius, Etna or Stromboli. Volcanoes have since been a major source of inspiration for me, but have been joined by a myriad of other inspirations, largely from my travels. The African coasts, Venice and especially Murano, Arizona, New York, Hawaii... In each of these places I found fascinating themes such as skyscrapers, bullfighting or glass work, which I was able to photograph, paint, rethink, and connect with." The use of carborundum in his painting is also directly related to his installations on volcanoes: the silicon compound is only found in its pure state in nature in volcanic exhalations. The technique of painted photography, or "photo-painting", is based on large-format black and white prints of the photographs taken during his many travels around the world. The print is reworked on the ground using different materials, canvas, metal, paint, silkscreen, varnish. These superimposed layers give a set of patinas, mats and glosses, while preserving the reality of nature.

His art allows him to create connections in a world where infinity meets the finite, where everything is a cycle, everything is a new beginning and where horizons multiply to give us more and more to see, discover and understand.

Videos :

La città I / Tony SOULIE
Wood engraving, handmade rag paper, handmade enhancement
36 x 24 in (92 x 62 cm), Frame : 39 x 27.5 in
Edition of 25 copies
2,060 US$
2839
La città II / Tony SOULIE
Wood engraving, handmade rag paper, handmade enhancement
24 x 36 in (62 x 92 cm), Frame : 27.5 x 39 in
Edition of 25 copies
2,060 US$
2799
La città III / Tony SOULIE
Wood engraving, handmade rag paper, handmade enhancement
24 x 36 in (62 x 92 cm), Frame : 27.5 x 39 in
Edition of 25 copies
2,060 US$
2746
Monument Valley II / Tony SOULIE
Mixed technique
49 x 70 in (125 x 180 cm)
unique artwork
Sold
4742
Flowers XXI / Tony SOULIE
Mixte technique
49 x 35 in (125 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
11,370 US$
3024
Flowers XXII / Tony SOULIE
Painting
49 x 35 in (125 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
11,370 US$
3101
Flowers XXIII / Tony SOULIE
Painting
49 x 35 in (125 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
11,370 US$
3068
Flowers XXIV / Tony SOULIE
Painting
49 x 35 in (125 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
11,370 US$
2771
Flowers XXV / Tony SOULIE
Mixed technique
24 x 35 in (60 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
6,400 US$
2776
Flowers XXVI / Tony SOULIE
Mixed technique
24 x 35 in (60 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
6,400 US$
2893
Flowers XXVII / Tony SOULIE
Mixed technique
24 x 35 in (60 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
6,400 US$
2890
Flowers XXVIII / Tony SOULIE
Mixed technique
24 x 35 in (60 x 90 cm)
unique artwork
6,400 US$
2844
Chicago / Tony SOULIE
Mixed technique on paper
24 x 31 in (60 x 80 cm), Frame : 24,5 x 32,5 in
unique artwork
4,550 US$
3104
San Francisco / Tony SOULIE
Dyptich, Mixed technique
71 x 98 in (180 x 250 cm)
unique artwork
45,490 US$
3669
Hong Kong / Tony SOULIE
Mixte technique framed
16 x 16 in (40 x 40 cm), Frame : 20 x 20 in
unique artwork
2,700 US$
3463
Billard / Tony SOULIE
Mixed technique
49 x 71 in (125 x 180 cm)
unique artwork
22,740 US$
3257
Tondo II / Tony SOULIE
Mixte technique framed
19 x 19 in (50 x 50 cm)
unique artwork
Sold
2674