Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg.
In 2007, he graduated DNSEP from the Art section at the Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg.
His oil painting on canvas is wild and naive. It represents isolated individuals or processions of mobile and unstable characters using colors that were initially frank but lately more subtle, in half-tones.
His creations, very expressive, virulent and raw are at the origin of the title of the exhibition “Raw” at the Galerie Claire Corcia.
His frenetic and sensual works are nourished by the materiality of oil paint, shiny and impasto, which catches the light and recalls, in the all-over filling of the canvas, the almost abstract water lilies of Claude Monet.
This firework of colors and materials asserts the very materiality of painting which cannot be shunned here, for our greatest pleasure. Also Julien Wolf flirts with abstraction by practicing oil painting all over the entire surface of the canvas, while celebrating the carnivorous and carnal figurative aspect of his characters at the limit of the ‘animality.
In these bacchanalian scenes, of spells or football scrums, the most total frenzy seizes the characters and the spectator is invited to take part in this deployment of collective madness. All that’s missing is the sound of loud voices, cries or vociferations that remain to be imagined because Julien Wolf’s painting is not sound!
This communicative frenzy wins the heart and brain of the spectator who would like to join these scenes of unbridled and lively jubilation.
2019
Raw, Galerie Claire Corcia, Paris
2018
Week-End en Résidence, Paris
2017
Espace Germinal, Fosses
Université de Rouen – Galerie Duchoze, Rouen
2016
Galerie 75, Rouen
2015
L’Atelier – Espace Arts Plastiques, Mitry-Mory
Galerie Espace 13, Mur-De-Barrez
Galerie 75,Rouen
Galerie Espace Eqart, Marciac
2014
Galerie Virginie Barrou Planquart,Paris
2019
L’Atelier – Espace Arts Plastiques – Un pluriel bien singulier, Mitry-Mory
SALON COMPARAISON – Paris
2018 : SALON COMPARAISON – Paris
2018
BIENNALE 109, Paris
2017
MAC PARIS, Paris
PASSAGE A L’ART – Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
2016
ARTCITE,Fontenay-Sous-Bois
Galerie Duchoze, Rouen
Dessins Outsider – Galerie Lieu 37, Paris
Galerie de l’Echarpe – Espace Eqart, Toulouse
Galerie Adada,Saint-Denis
Espace Eqart, Marciac
2015
Galerie Duchoze, Rouen
MAC PARIS, Paris
OUTSIDER ART FAIR – Espace Eqart, Paris
2014
MAC PARIS, Paris
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR – Galerie Virginie Barrou Planquart, Londres
After Puls’Art – Moulinsart, Le Mans
2013
ST’ART – Galerie Virginie Barrou Planquart, Strasbourg
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR – Galerie Virginie Barrou Planquart, Bruxelles
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR – Galerie Virginie Barrou Planquart, Londres
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR – Galerie Virginie Barrou Planquart, New-York
PULS’ART, Le Mans
2012
Performance – Halle-St-Pierre – Ensemble Carpe Diem, Paris
ST’ART – Galerie Virginie Barrou Planquart, Strasbourg
2011
Scénographie picturale – Théâtre de l’Athénée – Ensemble Carpe Diem, Paris
2010
Résidence, Berlin
2009
Performance – Villa Sainte Cécile – Ensemble Carpe Diem, La Côte-Saint-André