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An oustanding careerLacquer, traveler, one of the last great master of the lacquer, SEMA 1996 Regional Award, spiritual son of Bernard Dunand, this is in 1991, during an exhibition in UNESCO that Rémi Maillard asserts himself as a lacquer artist. China’s lacquer specialist, Rémi Maillard is now in the great national shows, and to this day, some of his works, by their size and the techniques he used, constitute true references in the field of lacquer. The genesis of a vocation Successively Franciscan monk, silk painter, fashion designer for some of the greatest haute couture firms (Ted LAPIDUS, Castel BAJAC, Poppy MORENI, FATH, DIOR), he registers his own label « Claude Rémy – Paris ». 
In 1982, Rémi Maillard approaches the lacquer via a friend, Paulette BONIZEC. This is a revelation. He accomplishes a long training, punctuated with travels in Far East Asia, with courses in the Paris Chinese workshops, with studies of the main techniques, and in parallel with the scrupulous analysis of old documents, and not to forget the regularly visits to museums. It gave him the opportunity to comprehend the old production. In UNESCO, Paris, March 1991, the exhibition of about twenty of his exceptional works allows him to assert himself as a lacquer artist. He gleans awards and honors. Passionate, Rémi Maillard follows a course of painter-decorator. He has been put in charge of the making of 9 big canvasses of four meters high for the Circus museum. He participates to the set of the movie “VATEL, the king’s chef” (Best Set César Award 2001), and many decors have been ordered from him. 
His meeting with Bernard Dunand, son of the greatest master of Art Deco… This is during an important personal exhibition in the Center Michel SIMON in Noisy-le-Grand, April 1994, that Rémi MAILLARD meets Bernard DUNAND, a lacquer artist and son of the most famous Lacquer master of the Art Deco Jean DUNAND. Rémi MAILLARD is known as a current artist. «... being in my hands a range of so many possibilities of the lacquer, used with an enthusiasm of conviction…» 
The exhibitions follow one another, constantly pushing the boundaries of his art, as with Frontières (Borders), a lacquer fresco of 3,60 m x 3,20 m in Coromandel carving, leaf gilded, introduced in Limoges before Mrs KUNIKO Yoshida, Culture representative of the Japanese Embassy, or the making of prestigious art items for Monsieur the Architect, curator of Grimaldi Palace in Monaco, and the design of trophies for the Ferrari Group, among other things… Among his exhibitions, there are the one done in the Orangerie du Sénat in Paris in August 2010, and in the Château d'Eau / Château d'Art in Bourges in September 2011. The “Prometheus” Gallery This is in the heart of Sologne, in Nançay village, that Rémi MAILLARD settles down – A region he is particularly fond of. He opens a fashionable shop, called « ART’S & DECO » with an adjoining demo workshop – the whole thing reaching to the “Prometheus” Gallery. There, he exhibits his own works of course, but also the ones of other artists, helping them in their progress. 
Rémi MAILLARD continues his diversified activity of lacquer and suggests to his clients a various range of all the items to decorate the house, allowing everybody the choice and the possibility to customize his or her home place. Rémi MAILLARD, a secret man, doesn’t speak much of his workings, nor of his work in the estates of the area – being discreet and quiet is the rule. We only know that prestigious works has been ordered from him, very specific to his technique: decors, leaf gilding, restoration, painting furniture, sheens, trompe l’oeil, and so on. |
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