1960
Born in Toulouse in 1962, raised in a family of musicians and art collectors
between Paris and the CÙte d’Azur.
1980
After University studies in ethnology, he’s accepted into the
prestigious Beaux-Arts School in Paris yet soon decides to seize
an opportunity to live in Miami where he works as Art Director for
Teen Magazine. He holds the first public exhibition of his paintings
there, before he decides to travel the world for inspiration: New
York, London, Prague, Madrid and Bombay.
1990
Back in Europe, his work is presented in various galleries and museums
along side world-renowned artists like Alechinsky, Chilida, Riopelle
and Matsutani of the Japanese Gutai Movement, who endorse Philippe
Sokazo’s style and professionalism.
2000
The industry challenges him to apply his Art to manufactured luxury
objects, such as jewellery, sculpted rugs, cement tiles, cigar
humidors, wine bottles, fashion apparels and cars. These objects
become part of the Sokazo World and are shown together with paintings
in museums and galleries.
Settles in BC in 2005 where he found new inspiration, light and
energy.
“ Explosive paintings!”
Robert Villenave
Mayor of Anglet, France
“Generous
artworks, saturated with overpowering colors where grow geometric
forms, waves, circles and ethnic signs.
Abstraction
that hits the retina. Seduction is immediate.”
Anne Tautou,
Art Critic
“Philippe Sokazo’s
work particularly strikes me by the opulence of multiple effects
opposed to a remarkable
apparent simplicity
in the making and in the iconic organization of forms.”
Denis Milhau,
Chief-Curator of the French Patrimony
and Professor of Art History at the Ecole du Louvre (Paris)
Appointed member of honor by the city of Toulouse, France.
Philippe Sokazo’s Art can be found in private and public collections
in the USA, Canada, Spain, Andorra, France, UK and Japan.
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