22 Facts About Miguel Chevalier

Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts.

Miguel Chevalier has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.

Miguel Chevalier develops different themes in his work, such as the relationship between nature and artifice, the observation of flux and networks organizing our contemporary societies, the imaginary of architecture and virtual cities, the transposition of patterns from Islamic art into the digital world.

Miguel Chevalier's works are most often presented in the form of digital installations projected at a large scale.

Miguel Chevalier creates in-situ works that revisit the history and architecture of places through digital art, giving them a new interpretation.

Miguel Chevalier creates sculptures using 3D printing or laser cutting techniques, which materialize his virtual universes.

Miguel Chevalier has been featured in numerous exhibitions in museums, art centers and galleries all over the world.

Miguel Chevalier carries out projects in public and architectural spaces.

Miguel Chevalier spent his childhood in Mexico where his father was a university researcher studying the history of Latin America.

Miguel Chevalier discovers with great passion the treasures of Churrigueresque architecture, as well as the European masters' paintings in museums.

At the Prado Museum, Miguel Chevalier has the opportunity to discover Goya's work, which he describes as an emotional shock.

Miguel Chevalier then moved to Paris, whose cultural richness and numerous exhibitions struck him as a revelation.

Miguel Chevalier joined the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1978 where he learned the basics of drawing and sculpture, where he graduated in 1981.

The completion of Miguel Chevalier's training included a few stays abroad: the Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York, thanks to the Lavoisier scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984.

Miguel Chevalier was successively in charge of various teaching, especially for the City of Paris, at the Universidad de las Andes de Bogota, at the Universidad de Mexico and at the Centro Nacional de las Artes de Mexico.

Miguel Chevalier held lectures at the Ecole Superieure d'Art et de Design in Reims, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Metz and at Sciences Po Paris.

Miguel Chevalier's work pursues a constant dialogue with the history of art, in a continuity and a metamorphosis of vocabulary, to explore and experiment with a new pictorial language.

The representations of the world no longer boil down to describing the territories, but rather learning about the flows that drives continents and thus expressing the ways in which recent technologies influence the constitution of new images of the globe, Miguel Chevalier has had an early interesting the theme of networks.

Miguel Chevalier combines his wired virtual universes with large networks that are formed and deformed, creating infinitely renewed diverse universes, as illustrated in Digital Supernova.

The work of Miguel Chevalier is imprinted with the theme of pixels, in connection with the kinetic art of the 70s, pioneers of the digital world.

Miguel Chevalier, first inspired by his childhood spent in Mexico and his travels in Latin America where nature is omnipresent and luxuriant, but by Japanese gardens, creates virtual gardens that explore the link between nature and artifice, which now coexist and mutually enrich each other, in a poetic and metaphorical way.

Miguel Chevalier creates a different image of the city, as with Light Meta-Cite.