(Paul Penichon, known as)
Lives and works in La Valette (Isère)
TRAINING
2021-2023 CAP de tournage and BMA de métier d'art, Longchamps.
2024 Formation niv. IV, Maison de la Céramique, Dieulefit.
EXHIBITIONS
11 ceramists, Endowment Fund and Galerie La taille de mon âme, Lyon.
Alphonse Papillons is a pseudonym that initially evokes a circus character. One day, however, the artist sees the name inscribed on a monument to World War II resistance fighters*. History appears to him as a territory where joy and melancholy coexist. In his installations, which he describes as "yard sale sequences", Alphonse Papillon invites us to start with what we know and move on to what suddenly seems strange.
Inspired in particular by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, he creates objects that have an attitude and are therefore more than just things.
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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