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Valentin Ranger
Valentin Ranger was born in 1992 in Paris. He currently lives and works between Paris and London. After training in theatre, he continued his artistic exploration at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal College of Art in London.
Through his drawings, paintings, 3D films and sculptural installations, Valentin Ranger deploys a dreamlike world in constant mutation, like the human body which he makes his main object of study. In abundant, almost saturated decors, or in rooms traversed at 360°, the artist stages hybrid characters and cellular forms that vibrate to the pulsations of an
indeterminate organism. From one medium to another, he thus writes the epic of a community where marginal or invisible populations – sexual and gender minorities – build together new forms of solidarity.
Exhibition view, « Infected/Disfigured », Spiaggia Libera, Paris, France, 2024. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris. © Aurélien Mole
Mort, 2024, 3D print, 68.9 x 31.8 x 48.8 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris. © Aurélien Mole
Mort, 2024, 3D print, 68.9 x 31.8 x 48.8 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris. © Aurélien Mole
Exhibition view, « Infected/Disfigured », Spiaggia Libera, Paris, France, 2024. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris. © Aurélien Mole
Ex-voto, 2024, aluminium engraving, 18.5 x 14.5 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris © Aurélien Mole
Ex-voto, 2024, aluminium engraving, 18.5 x 14.5 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris © Aurélien Mole
Le nouveau printemps Orgiax, 2024, digital print on canvas, oil paint, resin and varnish, 160 x 160 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris © Aurélien Mole
Le nouveau printemps Orgiax, 2024, digital print on canvas, oil paint, resin and varnish, 160 x 160 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris © Aurélien Mole
Anatomie de l’après, 2024, resin and acrylic paint, 215 x 70 x 30 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris © Aurélien Mole
Dague du coup de foudre, 2024, 3D printed Resin, chrome painting, 22 x 4 x 10 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris © Aurélien Mole
Dague du coup de foudre, 2024, 3D printed Resin, chrome painting, 22 x 4 x 10 cm. Courtesy the artist & Spiaggia Libera, Paris © Aurélien Mole
Metahospital, 2023, 3D film, colour, sound, 19:09 min.
Metahospital, 2023, 3D film, colour, sound, 19:09 min.
Metahospital, 2023, 3D film, colour, sound, 19:09 min.
Exhibition view, « Claire Nicolet & Valentin Ranger », Galerie du jour agnès b. / La Fab, Paris, 2022.
Exhibition view, « Douze preuves d’amour », Révélations Emerige, Hotel des Arts TPM, Toulon, 2022
Exhibition view, « Cosmogonias », Galerie municipale Jean Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine, 2022.
Exhibition view, « Autophagia », Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2021.
Exhibition view, « Le Cabaret du Néant », FRAC Ile de France - Château de Rentilly, 2020.
His works have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023); at the French Institute, Madrid (2023); at the Hotel des Arts TPM, Toulon (2023); at the Galerie du Jour / La Fab, Paris (2022); at the Jean Collet Municipal Gallery, Vitry-sur-Seine (2022); at the Emerige Revelations, Paris (2022); at the Studio des Acacias, Reiffers Art Initiatives, Paris
(2022); at the FRAC Ile de France, Château de Rentilly (2020); and at Villa Noailles, Hyères (2020).
Valentin Ranger is the winner of Les Amis de Beaux-Arts Prize, Agnès b Prize (2021). He also received the Special Jury Prize, Révélations Emerige (2022).
