Stéphane Delaprée
| Stéphane Delaprée | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 26, 1956 Paris, France |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
| http://happy-painting.net/ | |
Stéphane Delaprée, born in Paris, France, in 1956, is a French-Canadian artist resident in Cambodia[1] and is known for his "Happy Painting", naive paintings combining humor & realism.
Biography
Cartoons
Between 1970 and 1980, Stef began his artistic career as cartoon illustrator. He mostly worked in Quebec where he founded Bambou magazine in Quebec City.[2] He also worked for Belgium's Tintin magazine and for Fripounet magazine based in France.
Contemporary Painting
In 1992, while living in Costa Rica, strongly influenced by the naif style, Stef moved to painting. His brightly colored canvases depict subjects in nature, with pure rounded motifs. Very quickly, he found a very personal style and created what he terms his own painting movement, the Happy Painting, an artistic concept based on simplicity, very strong colors and “joie de vivre”.[3]
In 1994, Stef moved to Cambodia where he made work for UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme and World Food Program. The subjects depicted in his paintings evolved to portray daily life in Cambodia. His personal, very positive vision of the country, just out of civil war, met immediate commercial success.[4]
Stef is not attached to and does not receive support from any government, association or artistic group.
In 1997, during the crisis in Cambodia, Stef was amongst the very few foreigners who still believed in the future of the country and stayed there.
The Happy Painting movement influenced a number of Cambodian artists. In a personal letter, HRH Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, thanked Stef for his precious contribution to Contemporary Art in Cambodia. [5]
In 2008, Stef made a 15-metre mural for the new international airport in Sihanoukville. In 2008, he represented Cambodia at the second Contemporary Art Exhibition in Malaysia.[6] Stef’s creations are currently in galleries in Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore and India.
In 2013, he was going to close his shop in Phnom Penh due to piracy[4] but later stayed after making a deal with the Foreign Correspondent Club. In 2014, he made his debut in New York.[7]
Galleries
Permanent exhibition in the following galleries:
- HPG Foreign Correspondent Club, Phnom Penh
- HPG Phnom Penh International Airport[8]
- HPG Old Market Square, Siem Reap
- HPG Angkor Century Hotel, Siem Reap
- HPG Foreign Correspondent Club, Siem Reap
Main Individual Exhibitions
Cambodia
- Happy Painting Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Happy Cambodia Art Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 [9]
- Klick Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2002
- New Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Inter-Continental Hotel’s Art Gallery, 1997, 1998, 1999
- Hotel Raffles Le Royal’s Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1999, 2000, 2001
- Hotel Sofitel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1995, 1996, 1997
- Cambodiana Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Princess Angkor Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2003
- psara Angkor Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2002, 2003
- Angkor Century Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Malaysia
- Heng Masterpieces Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008, 2009
- International Contemporary Art Expo Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008
Singapore
- Gnani Arts Gallery, Singapore, 2009
Laos
- MB Art Gallery in Vientiane, Laos, 2006
India
- Ahuja Museum for Arts, http://www.ahujaptm.com/museum, Calcutta, India, (permanent exhibition).
Notes and references
- ↑ http://www.lepetitjournal.com/content/view/43798/1841/
- ↑ "countryside". phnompenhpost.com. November 4, 1994. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Familiar Images of Cambodia Revealed in Unfamiliar Ways". cambodiadaily.com. December 11, 2001. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "'Happy painter' blames shop closure on copyhttp://m.phnompenhpost.com/7days/%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-quite-afraid-fail%e2%80%99-phnom-penh-artist-take-bite-out-big-appledate=November 10, 2013". phnompenhpost.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "Popular Painter’s Fans Include Royalty". culturelocker.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Portrait". lapetitjournal.com. July 17, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
- ↑ "'I'm quite afraid to fail’: Phnom Penh artist to take a bite out of the Big Apple". phnompenhpost.com. May 16, 2014. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.airport-desk.com/airports/asia/cambodia/phnom-penh-international-airport.html
- ↑ http://www.fahthaimagazine.com/features/2006/jan/outsideangkor.html
- «Le monde est petit, c'est pourquoi il est fantastique», interview of Stéphane Delaprée by Gilles Angers, page E-9, in Le Soleil (section Crayons de Soleil), mercredi 20 novembre 1985, Québec;
- Canuck comics, a Guide to Comic Books Published in Canada, 1986, John Bell, Luc Pomerleau et Robert MacMillan, éditions Matrix Books, Montréal;
- «La bande dessinée au Québec», 1994, Mira Falardeau, éditions du Boréal, collection Boréal Express, Montréal;
- «Bande dessinée québécoise» : répertoire bibliographique à suivre, 1996, Bernard Dubois, éditions D.B.K., Sillery;
- «BDQ, Répertoire des publications de bandes dessinées au Québec des origines à nos jours», 1999, Michel Viau, éditions Mille-Îles, Laval;
- «Histoire de la bande dessinée au Québec», 2008, Mira Falardeau, VLB éditeur, collection Études québécoises, Montréal.
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