UNGLEE


Nationality: French

Unglee
made a name for himself in the late 70s with his experimental films and in the 80s with his photographs of Tulips. Parallel to his exhibitions, he has also appeared in art magazines, publishing his Disparitions, which tell the story of his life and his lifelong passion for tulips. These works, at the confluence of language and the visual arts, exude an ironic wit and grating elegance, even as they put his oft-repeated death in abyme.

He has also created installations, including Hommage à la pelle à neige, for the inauguration of rue Marcel-Duchamp, in Paris's 13th arrondissement, in 1995.

From 1998 to 2009, his visual work continued in a series of radio plays broadcast on France Culture: A la recherche de Giulietta Fabrizzi. On January 26, 2002, at Drouot Richelieu, as part of the Les Avant-gardes sale organized by Ghislain Mollet-Vieville with the Etude de Maître Cornette de Saint-Cyr, he offered for sale one of Giulietta Fabrizzi's earrings, accompanied by various documents. The set was reproduced in the April 2002 special issue of art press devoted to artists' fictions. In 2003, as part of Sélest'art, he took over the city's advertising space with a series of posters entitled Indiscrétions.

Between 2000 and 2005, he shot eight videos on the theme of declarations of love, a kind of song without music. They have been shown at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, Museum Africa in Johannesburg, Centre Pompidou, Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse, Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Instants Vidéo in Manosque, Kunstfilmbiennale in Cologne and Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, among others.

In early 2005, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris presented a retrospective of his films, and the Scam a retrospective of his videos. In 2006, four of his videos were shown in the exhibition Eros dans l'art moderne at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.

In 2010, Septembre éditions received publishing support from Cnap for a book entitled Unglee - Puzzle, which retraces his life and work. The following year, at the suggestion of Christian Alandete, Galerie DIX9 in Paris presented his exhibition Hollywood - Las Vegas, 1987-1989.

In 2012, he was awarded a Cnap research grant for his project Tulipe Bleue-Sculpture Immatérielle. On September 18, 2014, the fragrance (created for him by Domitille Bertier, Senior Perfumer at IFF) is previewed at Rives de la Beauté in Paris. The installation is unveiled at Please Do Not Enter gallery in Los Angeles in 2015, while Christophe Gaillard gallery presents Unglee Goes To Hollywood, a solo show as part of Paris Photo Los Angeles. It was also in 2015 that all his 16mm films entered the Collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2017, he produced a new video, Oh oui! performed by Alexandre Bibia and Isabelle Weingarten. It premiered at the 26th edition of the Côté court festival in Pantin in June 2017.

In 2018, Galerie Christophe Gaillard unveils Comme un désir d'éternité, the show, which will be included in the 2021 exhibition You've Gone Incognito at the Fort Institute of Photography Foundation in Warsaw.

In 2019, Unglee is one of the artists selected by Frank Lamy for the exhibition Lignes de vies - Une exposition de légendes at the Mac Val in Vitry-sur-Seine. In 2024, Galerie Duchamp presents a year-long selection of his videos.

On Thursday June 20, 2024, he is Arnaud Laporte's guest on Affaires culturelles on France Culture, interviewed by Antoine Leiris.

In 2024, he directed two new films: Alix, a tribute to his friend Alix Cléo Roubaud, and Il faisait beau, a tribute to his mother, whom he had filmed in the 70s. The music for both films was composed by Guillaume Esvelin and rearranged by Unglee

16/07/25

23 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

  ALIX
1981-2024 / Super 8 / color / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 42 €
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  IL FAISAIT BEAU
1975-2024 / Super 8 / b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 30 / 41 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  OH OUI
2017 / 4K / color / sound / single screen / 9' 28 / 43 €
distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server or Digital file on USB stick
  TULIPE BLEUE
2015 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 0' 50 / 10 €
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  J'AI PEUR
2005 / Mini DV / color / sound / single screen / 8' 29 / 41 €
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  REGARDE-MOI
2005 / DVCAM / color / sound / single screen / 7' 36 / 41 €
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NE DORS PAS
2004 / DVCAM / color / sound / single screen / 9' 06 / 42 €
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  DANS LE SOLEIL
2003 / Mini DV / color / sound / single screen / 7' 33 / 41 €
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  PARCE QUE
2003 / DVCAM / color / sound / single screen / 4' 32 / 35 €
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  J'AIME QUAND TU DANSES
2002 / Mini DV / color / sound / single screen / 3' 44 / 30 €
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  J'AIME TES PARFUMS
2002 / DVCAM / color / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 37 €
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  NON SOLO
2002 / DVCAM / color / sound / single screen / 5' 50 / 41 €
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  NON
2001 / DVCAM / color / sound / single screen / 9' 28 / 43 €
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  HOMMAGE À LA PELLE À NEIGE
1995-1996 / color / sound / single screen / 4' 00 / 22 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
  TULIPES AQUATIQUES
1990 / color / sound / single screen / 5' 15 / 23 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
TULIPES
1987 / color / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 37 €
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  PARIS PLAGE
1982 / color / sound / single screen / 19' 00 / 64 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on USB stick
  RADIO-SERPENT
1980 / color / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 41 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
  FORGET ME NOT
1979 / color / sound / single screen / 15' 00 / 50 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
  CHÉRIE, QUE VEUX-TU?
1978 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 27' 00 / 106 €
distribution: Digital file on USB stick
  AUTOPORTRAIT EN BLANC ET NOIR
1977 / b&w / silent / single screen / 6' 00 / 24 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
  C'EST FOU
1977 / color / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 41 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
  SIXIÈME ÉTAGE
1976 / b&w / silent / single screen / 3' 00 / 21 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server