Michel Mimran (born Michael Michel Mimran, 1954) is a French - luxemburgish architect, artist and member of the artistic circle of Luxembourg. He's been actively working around the subject of perception and memory.Article "Réfléchir sur l'avenir" Luxemburger Wort26.11.05
Biography Studied architecture in Paris, and later on was accepted into the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris. Mimran graduated from both universities, with one degree in architecture (1978) and another in arts (1976)Zimmer, Séverine, "Un cru honorable" Luxemburger Wort 06
After working in several architecture offices, Mimran started his own architecture agency, specializing in rehabilitions, heavy renovations of office, activity and residential buildings. With his first works on the Bercy train station, he combined art and science by showing via a photographic process the methodical cutting in "slices" of an urban space, a process concomitant of tomography. Since 1993 he has dedicated himself exclusively to art. With new technologies, he develops his researches on painting, photography and music. He has created a series of computer-generated animations.Becker, Nathalie,"Déambulation au coeur de la photographie" Luxemburger Wort, 1.04.11
Works
Meanwhile, he starts his first "Fotoforms" colors in an argentic system in order to explore the "movement memory"."Exposition sur le travail de la mémoire" Point24 1.07.10 In 1995, he's selected for a serie of magnifying-glasses paintings at "95 : Luxembourg : European city of culture". In the 90's, he creates computer-generated images that are exhibited on a flat screen at the villa VaubanWathelet, Mariana "Une exposition de qualité" Luxemburger Wort 21.11.03 in Luxembourg in 2003.
In summer 2005 during his stay at the , he takes a picture of a scene that will inspire him a work on Proust’s idea of memory. This work, entitled "Cabourg 2006, hommage à Proust" was exhibited at the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg the following year.Vasile, Radu, "Ouverture du Salon du Cal 2005" Luxemburger Wort21.11.05
In 2005 he goes back to his "Fotoforms" and reaches his goal concerning the movement memory, thanks to digital photography. Those "Fotoforms" were exhibited in 2009 at the Tuchfabrik in Trier and are still exhibited at the Olympus gallery. In 2009 the foreseeing transformation of Luxembourg's railway station inspires him a work on temporal memory called "Memoria: La Gare de Luxembourg, le 11 Juillet 2009". This series of 24 photographs was exhibited at the Carrérotondes in Luxembourg.Lorgé, Marie-Anne "Ne pas jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain" Le Jeudi 18.11.09
Since 2008, he has orientated his researches towards cultural memory with a series of pictures mixing photography, computer-generated images and drawings, entitled "Crash in the Kitchen" and "Flower on the Floor". Those works were exhibited at the Credit Suisse Gallery in Luxembourg city In March 2011, his new photographs were exhibited at the Abbaye de Neumünster Currently, in "Wellington-Picadilly", he's using Google Earth and geolocalization as a tool in his work.
Michel Mimran also participated in non-profit organizations such as Kiwanis and Autistes sans Frontières by offering some original pieces for auction. In 2012 Autistes sans frontières asked 56 international artists to give away an original artpiece to raise funds for children with autism.
Exhibitions 1976: Musée Berryer, France 1995: Luxembourg, European City of Culture 2003: Villa Vauban, Luxembourg 2005: Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg 2006: Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg 2009: Tuchfabrik Trier, Germany 2009: Carrérotondes Luxembourg 2010: Crédit Suisse Luxembourg 2010: Popart88 2011: Abbaye de Neumünster 2012: Antwerp Accessible Art Fair
Bibliography The Memory, an artistic journey Michel Mimran (), 2012.
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