Yves Charnay
painter
Yves Charnay (born January 25, 1942, in Saint-Chamond, Loire) is a French Light Artist and painter.
About
The artist deals in recent times mainly with light installations, perspective art works and paintings. Some of his works are displayed in China and Germany, such as "Les couleur de l'esprit", in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt or the spatial anamorphosis of Schloss Brake (Lemgo), which was created in cooperation with Claude Prévost. The latest international work is "Gestes réfléchis" in JiangYin, China. Besides being a light and object artist, he appears also as a painter, curator of international exhibitions, film writer, and artistic consultant for cinema and television.
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