Claude GazierVisual artist

Claude Gazier — visual artist

Stepping into the image

Portrait de Femme · 122x145 cm · casein on sand on panel · 2022

Public collections

City of Lyon · Musée du Cinéma de l’Eden, La Ciotat · Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans · Palestinian Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Exhibitions

Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans · Villa Tamaris art centre, retrospective · Palais de Bondy, Lyon

Press

Télérama · Artension · Les Arts Dessinés · Le Progrès · Air France Magazine

Artistic approach

For Claude Gazier, the point is to capture a fragment of emotion, a vanishing memory, and hold it still over time.

A carrier of images from the history of cinema — above all the films of his 1950s childhood — he builds a bridge between the seventh art and narrative figuration.

Signature de Claude Gazier

La Rose Pourpre du CaireLa Rose Pourpre du Caire, casein on quartz and sand on panel, 122x160 cm, 2021, private collection

On view now

Exhibition 2026 / 2027

MYSTIFICATION

Architecture and cinema: the quest for illusion

An exhibition built around the works of Claude Gazier is currently on view at the Saline Royale of Arc-et-Senans.

L’anamorphose monumentale au sol PlayTime, la Robe blanche de Marilyn et Fenêtre sur cour y sont présentées aux côtés des peintures. Dom Juan rejoint la collection de la Saline royale.

  • 30 April 2026 — 28 February 2027
  • Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, France
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Mes parents au Brésil, aggregate on panel, 2002 — Claude GazierReflet, 81x65 cm, casein and silica on panel, 2018 — Claude GazierMonika, 69x95 cm, casein on sand on panel, 2024 — Claude Gazier

Mes parents au Brésil · Reflet · Monika2006 · 2018 · 2024

New text

Critical text 2026

Three paintings by Claude Gazier

A reading of three paintings

“My parents in Brazil” (2006), “Reflet” (2018) and “Monika” (2024): three paintings with very different starting points, linked by their dominant old-rose tones.

  • Bernard Gazier
  • September 2026
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Paintings

From cinema to painting

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The aim of this work is to create pieces that are true developments of their source, widening the contemporary imagination. A threefold transformation — of frame, colour and material — carries out that transposition.

Drawing on the mural techniques of fresco, he leaves canvas behind for masonry surfaces on panel, covered with a pigment-based paint. Matte, dense or grainy, these soften contours and return the light, which seems to come from within them, with no reflection.

Dom Juan, 122x122 cm, casein on sand on panel, 2022 — Claude GazierDom Juan122x122 cm · casein on sand on panel · 2022collection of the Saline royale d’Arc-et-SenansPortrait de Femme, 122x145 cm, casein on sand on panel, 2022 — Claude GazierPortrait de Femme122x145 cm · casein on sand on panel · 2022Devant le Grand Hôtel de Caboug, 76x200 cm, casein on sand on panel, 2022 — Claude GazierDevant le Grand Hôtel de Caboug76x200 cm · casein on sand on panel · 2022Train bleu, 75x106 cm, casein on glass sand on panel, 2023 — Claude GazierTrain bleu75x106 cm · casein on glass sand on panel · 2023Un Revenant, 61x83 cm, casein on sand on panel, 2022 — Claude GazierUn Revenant61x83 cm · casein on sand on panel · 2022Monika, 69x95 cm, casein on sand on panel, 2024 — Claude GazierMonika69x95 cm · casein on sand on panel · 2024private collection

MYSTIFICATION exhibition — catalogue text (in French)

Claude Gazier peint le cinéma jusqu’au dérèglement complet de tous les sens.
Il entre dans l’écran pour éclairer les scènes de son imagination.
Il ne s’agit pas de reproduire tel ou tel plan mais de le réinventer
par des couleurs qui n’appartiennent qu’à lui.

L’œuvre se libère de l’histoire du cinéma et le cinéma se réinvente.
Claude Gazier nous offre d’y découvrir les forces secrètes qui l’animent.
Les films qu’il peint n’existent pas ou, plus exactement, n’existent que
par la peinture.
Gérard Mordillat, 01/05/2026 — text for the catalogue of the MYSTIFICATION exhibition, Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans.
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Biography

Born in 1952, lives and works in Lyon

Read Claude Gazier’s biography
Claude Gazier peignant dans son atelier
Photo Julien Martinet

A student in Paris, raised close to the Louvre, he drew and painted from childhood, then explored the techniques of representation and construction during his architecture studies at the ENSBA.

In 1980, discovering the painting of Edward Hopper was a revelation, and the urge to paint about cinema took shape.

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