François Dupuis was born in Chatou (France) on 24 June 1961. Between 1980 and 1981, Dupuis studied at the École Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques. Between 1981 and 1987, he entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, working at Pierre Caron's atelier. In the 1990s, he moved to Lyon where he still works and exhibits today. Dupuis's interests have been directed towards various artistic sectors for which pictorial and sculptural works can be recognized in the human figure as the consequence of a profound introspective study. In October 1996, he created the sets for Rossini's opera Cenerentola for the Lille orchestra. La Spirale, personal exhibition of Toboggan, Décines, November 2001; Thème et variations, Galerie Agend'Arts, Lyon 4th, December 2002; Monotypes, etc., Galerie Agend'Artts, Lyon 4th, June 2003; Salon du Sud-Est, Lyon, November, 2003.
Still Life 1, The work by François Dupuis was a gift presented by Pierre Credoz, the mayor of Décines-Charpieu, France, to Rinaldo Vanni, mayor of its sister city, the Town of Monsummano Terme, during a 2011 visit to Italy for events celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. Still Life 1 is an engraving that displays the artist’s great technical mastery. The French artist clearly completed his training by studying the works of great masters from the past. In fact, it is impossible not to see in Dupuis’s refined and elegant works the luminist studies of the most famous northern European engravers from the 17th century like Rembrandt, Cornelius Bloemart, Schelte Bolswert, and, above all, the illustrious Sadelers. Being great travelers, this family of Dutch graphic artists and printers often found themselves crossing the Alps to reach Italy, encountering fantastic day- and nighttime landscapes in which the spontaneous play of natural light became the dynamic element in their entire artistic production. With aquatint, the rich inks combined with a few well-defined etched marks to describe images in which the desired pictorial effect allows the observer's imagination to be distanced from elements of everyday life.
mm 150x200
Still Life 1, The work by François Dupuis was a gift presented by Pierre Credoz, the mayor of Décines-Charpieu, France, to Rinaldo Vanni, mayor of its sister city, the Town of Monsummano Terme, during a 2011 visit to Italy for events celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. Still Life 1 is an engraving that displays the artist’s great technical mastery. The French artist clearly completed his training by studying the works of great masters from the past. In fact, it is impossible not to see in Dupuis’s refined and elegant works the luminist studies of the most famous northern European engravers from the 17th century like Rembrandt, Cornelius Bloemart, Schelte Bolswert, and, above all, the illustrious Sadelers. Being great travelers, this family of Dutch graphic artists and printers often found themselves crossing the Alps to reach Italy, encountering fantastic day- and nighttime landscapes in which the spontaneous play of natural light became the dynamic element in their entire artistic production. With aquatint, the rich inks combined with a few well-defined etched marks to describe images in which the desired pictorial effect allows the observer's imagination to be distanced from elements of everyday life.
mm 135x240