Galerie Paul Prouté

A self-taught artist, Renaud Allirand devoted himself to painting after meeting Jacques Robinet, poet, psychoanalyst and art lover, at the age of 25. Then he followed the encouragement of the intaglio printer René Tazé. These two stages were decisive for him. From then on, he experimented with techniques, varying the supports, materials and tools and thus gave birth to a contemplative, singular and identifiable abstract universe.

Since 1995, his paintings, drawings, engravings and photographs have been regularly exhibited in France and abroad. Among them, let’s mention in particular that of the musée des Beaux-arts d’Orléans (2013), that of the French Institute in Morocco (2011) after having been invited to an artist residency in Tétouan, that of the musée de Saint-Maur (2007), or that of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (L’original Multiple, group exhibition, 2005).

Winner of the International Biennial of Printmaking of Saint-Maur in 2007 and awarded by the Académie des beaux-arts in 2010, he has already received many awards and distinctions. He also collaborates with writers and poets who accompany his engravings or inks with their texts, such as Miroir d’ombres, Frontières de sable, Traces, Feux nomades (with Jacques Robinet), Des mirages et des ombres (with Paul Louis Rossi), Une autre ville (with Frédéric Tison), Pollens (with Florent Papin), Ce peu de soi (with Michel Bourçon).