Tony Soulié

Tony Soulié (born 1955) is a French artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation art and photography.

These materials are specific products not originally intended for fine arts that he adopted from his immediate surroundings when his studio was located in Paris Bastille neighborhood, at this time dominated by craftsman activities assembling furniture.

[5] The use of carborundum in his paintings links back to the volcano installations: the silicon component of the artificial compound is in nature, as pure crystals, only found in volcanic exhalations.

[8] The themes that are explored in these painted photographs include the megalopolis based on his own photography from the biggest cities around the world but also flowers and dream catchers.

[1] Although coming from a family with its roots in the region of Albi in southern France, Soulié grew up in Paris in the Bastille / Marais neighborhood, then dominated by the furniture handcraft industry.

During 1998 and 1999 he worked with Simone Cenedese, maestro vetraio of Murano on realizing a series of glass-sculptures based on African fetish sculptures.

In a 2001 edition entitled "Lagos La Tropicale", Soulié's photopaintings realized in Nigeria were accompanied by a text by Dominique Sigaud.

[19] The Palais Synodal in Sens shows a major exhibition in 2007 entitled Panorama – seeking to provide a full review of Soulié's body of work.

After a series interpreting the sculptural language of the Zuni,[20] a new work on the shamanistic relationship to the animus is explored in the ensemble 2011 showing at the Domaine Dalmeran entitled ANIMA-ANIMISME.